They rescued passengers during evacuation: five railway employees killed in strike on Dnipro train station

Railway workers Yevhenii Kryvko, Viktoriia Nosikova, Kateryna Borysova, Yana Shpakova and Ruslan Dil were killed in a Russian drone attack on the railway station in Dnipro on 29 October.

Source: Zalizna Rodyna (Iron Family) charity project; Ukrzaliznytsia

Details: Yevhenii Kryvko, 38, held the rank of first-category specialist and had spent the past four months working as one of the station's "angels" – the people who greet arriving passengers, accompany those who need a helping hand and make sure travellers can find their way around.

The Zalizna Rodyna team said: "Yevhenii was assisting passengers during the evacuation. In a moment of danger, when people needed support and help, he stayed by their side and did his job. His service to the people has taken on a special, tragic meaning: a man called to help others became a victim of the enemy's strike himself."

Yevhenii is remembered as a caring husband and father. He is survived by his wife and two sons, Illia, 9, and Danylo, 3.

Viktoriia Nosikova was also killed in the attack. She worked as a carriage attendant aboard a passenger train that was about to depart alongside the commuter train. She was injured as she made her way to a shelter.

Viktoriia came from Donetsk Oblast and had devoted more than 20 years of her life to working on the railway. Colleagues remember her as a dedicated, conscientious employee who always made sure her passengers were comfortable.

The Zalizna Rodyna team recounted: "She always performed her duties to a high standard and with an open heart, bringing warmth and care to passengers, and she was a reliable adviser and a good colleague for the depot team. In civilian life, she was the guardian of her family – a loving wife, a caring mother, and a grandmother whose heart always beat for her dearest ones."

The attack also claimed the life of carriage attendant Kateryna Borysova. She came under fire while walking to a shelter.

Originally from Kirovohrad Oblast, Kateryna had spent 24 years working as a carriage attendant on local trains.

Zalizna Rodyna noted: "At the depot, she was known as a person of extraordinary discipline and inner strength. Over nearly a quarter of a century of conscientious work, Kateryna Borysova earned the immense respect of her team and management.

But above all, she loved life and her family. She was a wonderful, caring mother and grandmother, for whom her sons and granddaughter were her main source of joy and the meaning of her existence."

In 2015, Kateryna was presented with a commemorative watch by the head of the railway, and this year she received a certificate of gratitude from Ukrzaliznytsia.

Yana Shpakova, 32, was also killed instantly. She ran the children's area at Dnipro railway station, had spent 13 years working for Ukrzaliznytsia and had long since become part of the railway family, the company said.

Yana began her career selling train tickets. She later went on to run the children's area, caring for the youngest passengers.

"When danger arose and there was a need to help passengers arriving in Dnipro, Yana joined other station staff. She and her colleagues helped people during the evacuation," Zalizna Rodyna added.

Yana is survived by her 15-year-old daughter Myroslava, whom she was raising as a single mother.

Ruslan Dil, 48, from Synelnykove, was also among those killed. After completing his training at Dnipropetrovsk Vocational School, he spent nearly three decades working on the railway.

He began as an assistant electric locomotive driver and worked his way up to driving locomotives himself.

"The period of his work in the Zaporizhzhia region since the beginning of the full-scale invasion was particularly important and difficult. Ruslan was involved in the operation of evacuation trains that took people out of dangerous areas, as well as the evacuation of equipment," the company noted.

On the day of the attack, Ruslan was on leave and making his way home. He was travelling by train from Zhmerynka and was due to change at Dnipro railway station for a commuter service to Zaporizhzhia.

He is survived by his two children, his son Rostyslav and daughter Polina, as well as his mother and sister.

The death toll from the strike on the train station in Dnipro has risen to 15. A further 14 people were injured. Six of them are currently in a serious condition, including a child.

Background: Yana Pieshkova and Mariia Mozhova, two 15-year-old classmates, were killed in a Russian attack with a Banderol drone-launched cruise missile on central Chernihiv on 29 October.

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