What happened at the Ovruch railway station on 24 October 2025?
A look back at an explosion at a railway station in Ovruch that killed four people, and at a separate airport closure in Lithuania days earlier.
What happened at the railway station in Ovruch on 24 October 2025? An explosion there killed four people, including the perpetrator, and left 12 others injured.
The blast was the central event of that day in the reporting on Ukraine. No further details on the circumstances were given at the time.
A separate incident in Lithuania
Four days earlier, on 20 October 2025, Vilnius International Airport in Lithuania temporarily ceased operations and suspended all air traffic. The country's airspace and borders were also closed. The government had reported sightings of weather balloons used to smuggle cigarettes from Belarus.
