UKRAINE, KHARKIV OBLAST, Jan. 28 — Rescuers found four dead people and body fragments after the Russian attack on a passenger train in the Barvinkove community in the Kharkiv oblast. The final number of dead will be known after DNA tests, said the State Emergency Service.

On Jan. 27, Russians launched an attack drone at a passenger train, causing a fire in an electric locomotive and a train car. The attack injured a 29-year-old man and a 26-year-old woman.

Over the past day, Russian forces attacked 16 settlements in the Kharkiv oblast, injuring seven people, said Oleh Syniehubov, the governor of the Kharkiv region.

Russians attacked the region with four glide bombs, 15 Geran-2, four Lancet, two Molniya drones, two FPV-drones, and eight drones of unidentified types.

A Russian glide bomb attacked Studenok village in the Izium district, damaging 10 houses, reported the Kharkiv regional police. They also damaged a clinic and cars in Pisky-Radkivski.

Russian attacks damaged two houses, two outbuildings, injuring three people in the Pechenihy settlement, and damaged three houses and an outbuilding in Martove village in the Chuhuiv district.

In the Kupiansk district, Russians attacked a civilian car on the Andriivka-Shypuvate road, injuring a 59-year-old man and a 55-year-old woman.

In the Bohodukhiv district, Russians damaged a power network in Hubarivka village and a railway station in Bohodukhiv.

In the Kharkiv district, they damaged a house in the Slatyne settlement, a car, and a shop in Derhachi.

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