Part of a train has come off the tracks in the latest incident of carriage derailments in Russia over the last few weeks.
The independent Russian language Astra Telegram channel posted video Monday of smoking wreckage of what it said was a derailed train in the city of Stary Oskol in the Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine.
Citing local media reports, the channel said the incident took place overnight near the Lebedinsky mining and processing plant and that it was not known if anyone was injured.
Only the day before, the same Telegram channel had posted that nine rail carriages carrying grain had derailed at the city of Liski, located around 380 miles south of Moscow, in the Voronezh region.
The channel shared video of the upturned carriages at the city's railway station and said that the incident had been due to a switch malfunction and delayed five passenger trains.
It added no one was injured and the cause of the incident was being investigated, although security forces do not believe outside interference was a factor.
On July 9, a freight train car derailed at the Khovrino railway station in the Moscow region during shunting work, according to the Russian news outlet Zaks.ru.
The station is in the Oktyabrskaya Railway network linking the Russia's capital with its north-west. Meanwhile, three people were killed when nine out of a train's 14 carriages derailed in Russia's northern republic of Komi on June 26.
Around 40 people were injured in the incident which Russian Railways said was probably caused by heavy rains washing away part of the tracks, the Associated Press reported.
The train was traveling between Vorkuta-Novorossiysk and videos and images shared by state-run media showed carriages near the track and one wagon submerged in a river.
Astra also posted images of the aftermath of a derailment of freight carriages at the Zapadnaya railway station in Novotroitsk, in Russia's Orenburg region, 1,200 miles east of Moscow. The outlet said there were no casualties or any environmental damage.
And on June 9, five fuel tanks derailed near the port of Ust-Luga in the Leningrad region, which is the home to one of Russia's largest oil terminals, according to the Rozpartizan Telegram channel.
Ukraine has targeted Russia's oil processing infrastructure through drone strikes they do not claim direct responsibility for, although have so far refrained from hitting oil export facilities.
There is so far no suggestion of Ukrainian involvement in Ust-Luga but over the course of Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, there have been attacks on Russian trains blamed on sabotage.
The National Resistance Center of Ukraine said Ukrainian partisans blew up a Russian train last October in Ukraine's partially occupied Zaporizhzhia region, disrupting ammunition and fuel for Moscow's military.
In May 2023, rail traffic was suspended between the cities of Simferopol and Sevastopol in Russian-occupied Crimea after a derailment that railway officials blamed on "interference by outsiders." British defense officials said the incident had disrupted deliveries of supplies and weaponry to Russia's Black Sea Fleet.
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