Sergei Aksionov, from Crimea, said in a statement sent via the Telegram app that train carriages loaded with grain derailed, causing no injuries.
Earlier, the Baza channel on Telegram, which has links to Russian security services, reported that an explosion occurred on a railway line in the region annexed by Russia in 2014, according to Reuters.
For its part, The Associated Press reported that Russian authorities announced that a freight train carrying grain had derailed Thursday in the Crimean peninsula without causing any casualties, at the height of a series of incidents of sabotage. which Moscow regularly attributes to Kiev.
For its part, the local railway authority announced in a press release that the accident was the result of “actions of third parties”.
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