MOSCOW, June 8 -- The assistant driver was at his post when the drone found the locomotive. He did not survive. The driver beside him was injured. The Moscow-Simferopol passenger train - a civilian line linking the Russian capital to annexed Crimea - came to a halt in the hours after Monday's strike, and so, the Kremlin insisted, did any near-term prospect of peace.

Crimean Governor Sergey Aksyonov confirmed the strike in a Telegram post, saying preliminary reports indicated a Ukrainian drone had hit the locomotive directly. Buses were being organized, he added, to transport stranded passengers to their destinations. The Southern Suburban Passenger Company later announced the suspension of rail service along multiple routes to and from S...