Passengers of the Chernivtsi-Ivano-Frankivsk-Zaporizhzhia train were evacuated in the city of Burshtyn in the Ivano-Frankivsk Region due to a bomb threat. The police of the Ivano-Frankivsk region has reported this.
The train was stopped at the Burshtyn railway station around 5 p.m., and passengers were transferred to safe places.
"Police in the Ivano-Frankivsk Region are checking the information about the bomb threat on the Chernivtsi-Ivano-Frankivsk-Zaporizhzhia train. The train was stopped at the *Burshtyn* railway station around 5 p.m., and passengers were transferred to safe places. Explosive experts, dog handlers with sniffer dogs and all other relevant services are working at the site to conduct the inspection," the statement said.
Later it was reported that the police inspected the train outside and inside the cars. No explosives were found. The train returned to its normal route.
As the Ukrainian News earlier reported, since the beginning of August, russia has launched almost 300 strikes on Ukrainian railroad facilities.
On October 9, the head of the Chernihiv Regional Military Administration, Oleh Hryhorov, announced a temporary halt to train traffic in the direction of the Chernihiv and Sumy Regions.
Also today, the chairman of the board of Ukrzaliznytsia, Oleksandr Pertsovskyi, said, that the occupiers are trying to cut off the railway connection with the Chernihiv and Sumy Regions.
On October 8, an expert on communication technologies and electronic warfare, Serhii "Flash" Beskrestnov, said that the occupiers are hunting for locomotives, without which the railway will stop.
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