Employees of the State Emergency Service extinguished an electric train fire near the village of Kosari, Cherkasy region. The vehicle caught fire while driving. The State Service of Ukraine for Emergency Situations reported this on its website..

“Even before the arrival of fire departments, 40 passengers were evacuated and fire extinguishing began with primary fire extinguishing means..

Rescuers finally extinguished the fire of electric train cars on a total area of \u200b\u200b180 sq.. and prevented further spread of the fire,” the message says. A fire train and a local volunteer fire brigade were involved in extinguishing.

No injuries; the cause of the incident is being established.

Ukrzaliznytsia reported that they are investigating the technical causes of the fire of train No. 6551/6552 "

Passengers were sent by reserve train from Kosari station with a delay of 1.5 hours;

route – no changes.

An electric train caught fire in Cherkasy region pic. twitter. com/7hx4MI9dri— Maxim (@lipcansmaks1) May 12, 2026 As we already wrote, on May 8, as a result of a large-scale forest fire in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, the fire covered more than 1,100 hectares.

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