{"id":37878,"date":"2025-10-17T23:54:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T20:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/?p=37878"},"modified":"2025-10-18T00:06:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T21:06:32","slug":"drone-attack-on-the-railway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/drone-attack-on-the-railway\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia makes more precise drones and is using them to attack Ukraine\u2019s vital rail network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine\u2019s repair crews are racing to match the pace of Russian strikes. Piles of debris from missile attacks are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-missile-strike-kyiv-recovery-7d8829ce325e40447c0da16aaece4ca0\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-missile-strike-kyiv-recovery-7d8829ce325e40447c0da16aaece4ca0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cleared within hours<\/a>, and utility teams typically restore power and water within a day after most strikes on Kyiv and other cities.<\/p>\n<p>Rail crews operate on a similar timeline. In Kyiv, railway repair team leader Maksym Shevchuk, 30, recalled the day a missile destroyed 39 feet of track. \u201cTraffic on the track was fully restored in half a day,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Freight volumes carried by rail from January through August 2025 dropped 11.7% year over year, while passenger traffic declined by 4.2%, according to the State Statistics Service, which has not stated a reason for the decline.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nataliia Kolesnichenko, senior economist at the Kyiv-based Center for Economic Strategy, described the impact so far as \u201cnegative but marginal,\u201d crediting rapid repair work and train rerouting that keeps delays to a minimum.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p data-start=\"717\" data-end=\"743\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/10\/15\/russia-drones-ukraine-trains\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daily News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"745\" data-end=\"797\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">More news from CES experts can be found at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/?cat_ID=54\">the link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine\u2019s repair crews are racing to match the pace of Russian strikes. Piles of debris from missile attacks are\u00a0cleared within hours, and utility teams typically restore power and water within a day after most strikes on Kyiv and other cities. Rail crews operate on a similar timeline. In Kyiv, railway repair team leader Maksym Shevchuk, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":37884,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[187,200],"tags":[593],"experts":[662],"news_type":[139],"class_list":["post-37878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-experts-in-the-media-en","category-news-list-en","tag-infrastructure-en","experts-nataliia_kolesnichenko-en","news_type-we-are-in-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37878"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37886,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37878\/revisions\/37886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37878"},{"taxonomy":"experts","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/experts?post=37878"},{"taxonomy":"news_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ces.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_type?post=37878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}