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According to the report, last week, on June 6, in the area of occupied Tokmak in Zaporizhia region, a swarm of Ukrainian drones burned a Russian military train. This was reported by the Russian resource ASTRA, citing informed sources. The UAVs overtook the train on the stretch near the occupied village of Zarya. The first drone punctured a fuel tank, causing a fire. The driver urgently stopped the train. After that, a whole swarm of drones went into action, carrying out numerous strikes on the military facility. According to the source, 6 tanks containing gasoline and diesel caught fire. In addition, the train was carrying about 19 flatcars from Volnovakha to Crimea. The extent of their damage is being determined.
The report also stated that the same week that Russia experienced an unexpected drone attack on its airfields deep inside the country, explosions rocked several Russian railway tracks, and the railway bridge into annexed Crimea was targeted with underwater explosives. Though these attacks lacked the novelty of Operation Spider’s Web, they underline the centrality of Russia’s railway network to its war effort. Transport is a crucial component of Russia’s strategic security considerations, with political heavyweights appointed by the Kremlin to oversee the country’s roads, bridges, railway networks, and its inland waterway system. It is also no accident that the chairman of the board at Russian Railways, Andrei Belousov, is also the defense minister. Presidential aide Nikolai Patrushev also manages the development of Russia’s waterways, which have important military implications for Moscow’s relations with China and activities in the Arctic.
The report added that the link between transport and Russia’s strategic security is also enshrined in law. Since 2014, transport has been included among the so-called strategic sectors, alongside defense, oil, and gas. The Kremlin considers these parts of the economy to be fundamentally important and upon which Russia’s national security rests, such as defense, oil, and gas. Foreign investment in these enterprises is limited by law; they receive particular attention and funding from the federal center and usually play an important role in furthering Russia’s foreign and domestic policies, as well as its warfare.
In addition to the report, Railway networks are the only way that Russia’s ground forces and materiel can travel around the country at speed and en masse. They were how Russian and Belarusian troops amassed on the border with Ukraine in February 2022 and remain the only way that Russian ground forces can be sustained on the battlefield for a long time. Ukraine also understood Russia’s reliance on its rail systems and has tried to destroy its network to prevent Russia from pressing more deeply into Ukrainian territory, and to disrupt Russia’s railways inside the country, most notably in December 2023. More broadly, Russia also has a supply chain problem with spare locomotive parts, exacerbated by the sanctions, as many of the parts were previously imported.
Watch the report on the YouTube link.
The report also stated that the same week that Russia experienced an unexpected drone attack on its airfields deep inside the country, explosions rocked several Russian railway tracks, and the railway bridge into annexed Crimea was targeted with underwater explosives. Though these attacks lacked the novelty of Operation Spider’s Web, they underline the centrality of Russia’s railway network to its war effort. Transport is a crucial component of Russia’s strategic security considerations, with political heavyweights appointed by the Kremlin to oversee the country’s roads, bridges, railway networks, and its inland waterway system. It is also no accident that the chairman of the board at Russian Railways, Andrei Belousov, is also the defense minister. Presidential aide Nikolai Patrushev also manages the development of Russia’s waterways, which have important military implications for Moscow’s relations with China and activities in the Arctic.
The report added that the link between transport and Russia’s strategic security is also enshrined in law. Since 2014, transport has been included among the so-called strategic sectors, alongside defense, oil, and gas. The Kremlin considers these parts of the economy to be fundamentally important and upon which Russia’s national security rests, such as defense, oil, and gas. Foreign investment in these enterprises is limited by law; they receive particular attention and funding from the federal center and usually play an important role in furthering Russia’s foreign and domestic policies, as well as its warfare.
In addition to the report, Railway networks are the only way that Russia’s ground forces and materiel can travel around the country at speed and en masse. They were how Russian and Belarusian troops amassed on the border with Ukraine in February 2022 and remain the only way that Russian ground forces can be sustained on the battlefield for a long time. Ukraine also understood Russia’s reliance on its rail systems and has tried to destroy its network to prevent Russia from pressing more deeply into Ukrainian territory, and to disrupt Russia’s railways inside the country, most notably in December 2023. More broadly, Russia also has a supply chain problem with spare locomotive parts, exacerbated by the sanctions, as many of the parts were previously imported.
Watch the report on the YouTube link.
