By Max Hunder and Pavel Polityuk

KYIV (Reuters) -Russia has unleashed a massive wave of attacks on Ukraine’s railways since the summer, using new tactics to hit key nodes with long-range drones, but the network is holding up for now, the CEO of the state railway company told Reuters.

“Their first aim is to sow panic among passengers, their second aim is to hit the overall economy,” Oleksandr Pertsovskyi said in an interview held in a rail carriage at Kyiv’s central station.

There did not appear to be a particular focus on targeting military cargo. “These are all, in essence, strikes on civilian infrastructure,” he said.

RAILWAY ATTACKS HAVE INTENSIFIED

Ukrzaliznytsia, the vast state-owned railway company, employs 170,000 people and has been the target of Russian attacks since the star

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