Two bridges in different Russian areas bordering Ukraine were blown up in advance of scheduled peace talks aimed at resolving the three-year-old war in Ukraine, killing at least seven people and injuring 69 more, Russian officials said on Sunday.
At 10:50 p.m. (1950 GMT) on Saturday, a passenger train carrying 388 people to Moscow was going beneath a highway bridge that spans a railway in the Bryansk region when it was blown up, according to Russian investigators.
Four hours later, in the nearby Kursk region, a railway bridge over a highway was blown up, dumping pieces of a freight train into the road, according to the investigators.
