Helping hands: how Moscow accepted the victims of the emergency near Bryansk
The passengers of the Klimov – Moscow train evacuated on the night of June 1 were met by doctors and psychologists in the capital at the Kievsky railway station. The children, who are in serious condition, were taken to Dr. Roshal's clinic by helicopter. One of them is a five—month-old baby. On the evening of May 31, a railway bridge collapsed in the Bryansk region, its fragments fell on a passenger train passing under it. A total of 71 people were injured, seven died, said the governor of the region, Alexander Bogomaz. A few hours later, in the Kursk region, in the Zheleznogorsk district, on June 1, 2025, a train fell from a damaged bridge onto a highway, and there were casualties. A criminal case has been opened into both incidents, and three days of mourning for the victims have been declared in the Bryansk region. About who helps the victims and how - in the material of Izvestia.
Rescue work
A helicopter carrying two children, five months and seven years old, who were injured during a train derailment in the Bryansk Region, arrived at the Scientific Research Institute of Emergency Pediatric Surgery and Traumatology (Dr. Roshal's clinic) in Moscow, Izvestia found out. According to Assistant Minister of Health Alexei Kuznetsov, a total of six people were evacuated to the capital following the inspection — three children accompanied by their parents and three adults.
According to Russian Railways, on the morning of June 1, the first passengers evacuated after the emergency arrived in the capital at Kievsky railway station. According to Alexey Kuznetsov, 13 of them were hospitalized.
The tragedy occurred on the evening of May 31 at 22:50. According to the Western Interregional Department for Transport of the Russian Investigative Committee, a bridge structure collapsed on the Vygonichi – Pilshino section in the Bryansk Region, the fragments of which fell on the Klimov–Moscow passenger train passing under it. As a result of the emergency, according to the governor of the Bryansk region, Alexander Bogomaz, 71 people were injured and seven died.
The head of the region specified that the families of the victims will receive 1.5 million rubles each.
"Severe victims will receive 750 thousand rubles, medium and light — 450 thousand," added the governor of the Bryansk region.
The families of the victims will also receive payments in the amount of 2.2 million rubles from Russian Railways.
In total, according to the Izvestia source, 378 people were traveling on the Klimov – Moscow train, according to the tickets purchased.
What the victims said
One of the victims, who was traveling in the fourth carriage, told Izvestia that there were many elderly people on the train who were either returning from the sanatorium or heading to work.
— We didn't understand anything. There was a sudden deceleration. As we found out later, they all had the same injuries. On the one hand, a headbutt and chest injury. On the other hand, there were puncture wounds, because they touched the metal corners of the table. The ceiling has fallen," she shared.
Later, passengers of the surviving wagons were told that two pillars had fallen on the locomotive. As a result, the first car flew off to the side, and the second and third overturned.
"Some of them were calling for help," the passenger added. — Our carriage and the subsequent ones were hit — up to the tenth.
She also noted that the services worked quickly and there was no panic among the passengers.
— The Ministry of Emergency Situations and the ambulance arrived immediately. There are no complaints," the woman said. — And everyone helped each other, young guys helped the elderly with suitcases and insured them. Then we were put on buses and taken to a local school. They gave him tea, then took him to the train station, put him on a train and sent him to Moscow.
Another passenger on the train said that he was sleeping in the carriage at the time of the collapse.
The injured passenger is Evgeny Martyrenko
"I wake up and it's all over, porridge, soft—boiled, everyone is screaming," the man recalls.
As a result of the incident, his finger was injured and his face was bruised.
"I was traveling to Moscow in the eighth carriage on the upper side shelf,— said Evgeny Martyrenko from the city of Surazh. — The speed of the train was standard. I started to fall asleep, and then the car started shaking violently. I managed to grab the handrail, but I was literally pushed into the wall. I injured my head, legs and arms," he clarified.
In connection with the tragic events in the Vygonichi district, June 2, 3 and 4, 2025, were declared days of mourning in the Bryansk region, Alexander Bogomaz wrote on a social network.
"The national flags of the Russian Federation, the flags of the region and the flags of the municipalities of the Bryansk Region will be lowered at half—mast throughout the region," the publication says.
Cultural institutions and broadcasting companies of the Bryansk region will also cancel all cultural and mass entertainment events and television and radio broadcasts of entertainment programs during the days of mourning.
According to law enforcement agencies, on June 1, 2025, at about three o'clock in the morning in the Zheleznogorsk district of the Kursk region, a passing train fell from a damaged bridge onto a highway.
"As a result of the incident, the driver and his two assistants were injured," said Svetlana Petrenko, an official representative of the Investigative Committee of Russia.
According to Alexander Khinstein, the acting governor of the Kursk region, the driver's legs are damaged, and his assistants have bruises.
Criminal cases have been opened into the incidents in the Kursk and Bryansk regions, the Investigative Committee said.
A series of coincidences
The Russian Foreign Ministry said that the collapse of the bridge on the eve of the second round of negotiations with Ukraine is of serious concern.
"There must have been such coincidences somewhere in the world. But the series of events that takes place a day before the start of the scheduled negotiations raises very serious questions," said Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry Rodion Miroshnik.
The first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, Alexei Chepa, in a conversation with Izvestia, admitted that the incident around the bridge in the Bryansk region could be another attempt by the Kiev regime to blackmail and pressure Moscow in order to influence the preparation of a peace agreement.
— Ukraine wants Russia to agree to the conditions that it puts forward, and therefore resorts to such measures. But Kiev should know that any actions will definitely be met with a response from our side," he said.
The Kiev regime's task is to continue fighting, because it can only exist in these conditions, military expert Viktor Litovkin noted.
"The enemy doesn't need peace," he says. — The Ukrainian Armed Forces are ready to show the West that they are still acting so that it can continue to supply them with weapons, ammunition and money.
According to Litovkin, Ukraine is trying by all means to force Russia to abandon future negotiations. In this case, Kiev believes, not only the European Union, but also the United States will act against Moscow.
The armed forces of Ukraine are currently being defeated in the combat zone, in particular in the Sumy region, military expert Vasily Dandykin recalled in an interview with Izvestia. Against this background, Ukrainian militants may increasingly resort to sabotage, the purpose of which is to sow panic, trying to transfer the fighting to the territory of Russia, he added.
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