"On March 8, 2021 at 16:50 (Moscow time), on the Chichatka - Zhanna Mogochinsky section of the Trans-Baikal Railway, there was a descent, according to preliminary information, of 25 freight train cars," the message says.
It is clarified that there are no victims and no threat to environmental safety.
To eliminate the consequences of the accident, recovery trains were sent to the scene.
Earlier, investigators in the Khabarovsk Territory opened a criminal case on the derailment of 17 freight train cars.