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Crimean rail traffic halted after news of explosion

May 19, 2023

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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Arab Desk

Arab Desk

The Arab Desk leads The Eastern Herald's reporting on the Middle East and North Africa. The desk has covered the Gaza-Israel war since October 2023, the Iran-Israel war of 2025-2026, the fall of the Assad government in Syria, Hezbollah's political and military shifts in Lebanon, the war in Yemen, and the diplomatic realignment of the Gulf states under the Abraham Accords and the Saudi-Iranian rapprochement.

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