Its freight lines sustain Ukraine’s embattled industry in the east, ship cargo throughout the country and carry crucial grain exports to the border. Yet in recent months the number and accuracy of Russian strikes on the railway have surged.

Fastiv, a key logistical hub near Kyiv, Ukraine, has suffered massive strikes as Russia attempts to paralyze the country's railways.

Over the last week, pro-Kremlin websites and social media accounts have been sharing a video of a children’s Christmas-themed train ride.

A Russian drone strike on the Shostka train station in northeastern Ukraine earlier this month killed a 71-year-old man and injured at least eight, leaving train carriages buckled by fire and riddled with shrapnel. Ukrainian officials report this as one of ...

Britt Clennett reports on the damage at a railway station in Fastiv, Ukraine. Russia's latest overnight bombardment consisted of more than 700 projectiles.

Russia is pushing to take over all of eastern Ukraine's Donbas region, where one resident tells NPR that she feels her "life depends on how our guys at the front hold on."

Propped up in her hospital bed, railway conductor Olha Zolotova speaks slowly and quietly as she talks about the day her train was hit by a Russian drone. "When the Shahed [drone] hit I was covered in rubble. I was in the second car. People pulled me out ...