“Russian drones and missiles are increasingly attacked by Ukraine’s rail and civilian logistics centers: from New Mail to Epicenter. In recent weeks, objects in different regions, not just frontier, have come under fire. According to military observers, the enemy in this way not only tries to “cut” the provision of the Armed Forces, but also to strengthen the moral and psychological terror of the population and to weaken”, – WRITE ON: ua.news
Russian drones and missiles are increasingly attacked by Ukraine’s rail and civilian logistics centers: from New Mail to Epicenter. In recent weeks, objects in different regions, not just frontier, have come under fire.
According to military observers, the enemy in this way not only tries to “cut” the provision of the Armed Forces, but also to strengthen the moral and psychological terror of the population and to weaken the economy.
UA.News talks about the latest large -scale strikes by civilian logistics and Ukrzaliznytsia, and whether similar attacks may be spilled on the infrastructure of Western Allies of Ukraine.
The Russian Federation tries to destroy Ukrzaliznytsia
Increased intensity blows On the objects of Ukrzaliznytsia in recent weeks, they have been recorded in the media. In addition to shallow incidents, they also reported large -scale hit:
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On September 7, the attack of Russian shock drones was damaged by the railway bridge across the Dnieper in Kremenchug.
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On September 3 in the Kirovograd region, rail infrastructure was partially destroyed and partially destroyed, and four railways were injured.
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On August 28, the Russian Federation purposefully hit the civilian passenger rolling stock in Kozyatyn. Under the fire came, including the Power High -speed trains of Intercity+, as well as a local railway station.
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On August 10, Russian troops attacked a railway station in Sinelnikov in Dnipropetrovsk region. All the staff of the station were evacuated in advance, so the victims among the staff were avoided.
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On August 1, the percussion drones flew to the railway station in Sumy, the shelling damaged the train “Kharkiv-Uzhgorod”, in which the passengers were located.
After a number of such shellings, Ukrzaliznytsia stated that massive attacks on railway infrastructure, the enemy tries to destroy key nodal stations.
Shakhda is massively attacked by our key stations. Examples are attacks on Lozov station, Sinelnikovo station, Kozyatyn station. That is, practically all over the country they hit the nodal stations ”, – explained The chairman of the company Alexander Pertsovsky.
He noted that the enemy attacks comprehensively: both energy substations, locomotive depots, and passenger stations fall under the impact. “The enemy beats so that the node is in fact destroyed” – the chairman of the board of Ukrzaliznytsia emphasized.
In addition to the Air Force, rail infastructure suffers from small sabotage and other not yet investigated incidents. For example, in the Fastiv district of Kyiv region, due to the emergency on September 14, there was a damage to the railway cloth on the site “Vasylkiv-1-Boyarka”.
The tracks were damaged as a result of ammunition explosions in a train carrying a military cargo. The consequences of detonation have been eliminated, the reason should still be investigated and a check.
Blows on civilian logistics nodes
The Russians systematically beat logistics and warehouses in Zaporizhzhya, Mykolaiv, Odessa regions, Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk region. Over the last three months, the media has counted from 20 to 50 such local and large-scale blows. Warehouse complexes in areas distant from the front line also came under the sight.
On August 21, the invaders hit the winged missiles on one of the civilian enterprises near Mukachevo in the Transcarpathian region. As a result, about 20 people were destroyed, a powerful fire was damaged, which was extinguished by emergency workers.
On September 10, the Russian Federation attacked Shahheda and Lviv missiles, including a civil warehouse in the Aviation Street.
On September 16, the drone attack on the logistics complex of the epicenter in the Kyiv region led to large -scale ignition. The fire of the SES, aviation and specialized robotics were involved in the elimination of the fire.
Extinguishing the fire was complicated by the dense loading of the warehouses. In addition, volunteer fire formation and representatives of the Ukrainian Red Cross were joined.
A military observer about Russian attacks on logistics
RF attacks on Ukrainian logistics is a trend that began in 2022. Then Russian occupation troops, especially in May, were struck on the Ukrainian railway, but failed to achieve any significant success, says Oleksandr Kovalenko, military observer of the Information Resistance group.
“The disruption of the railway itself needs a serious impact on the level of carpet bombing at a particular transport node. Therefore, in principle, this did not significantly affect the course of hostilities, the course of the war. And the Russians quickly abandoned the impact on energy.
It was in the autumn-winter period, when the command of the Russian occupation troops was taken by General Surovikin that a decision was made to strike on Ukrainian energy.
In principle, logistics has always taken place. Constant pressure – on the “new mail”, beat on the same “epicenter”. These objects are considered by the Russians an integral part of the logistics and transportation of weapons in the territory of Ukraine.
Although, according to intelligence information received by Russian occupation troops, they are very well aware that it is a civilian logistics. And they do it solely to complicate not only the lives of ordinary Ukrainians, through logistics, transportation of goods and services. But in order to strike and damage the Ukrainian economy, which continues to work, despite the mode of full -scale invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine. “
At the same time, according to Alexander Kovalenko’s military observer, Alexander Kovalenko, it is too early to say that Russian invaders can dare to openly attack logistics units in Ukrainian countries.
“As I said, to destroy the logistics knot, especially the railway, and mostly Ukraine’s logistics arteries are railroad, serious influences are needed. Either a tactical nuclear weapon or carpet bombing. And Russia will definitely not be able to carry out such a hybrid format. Sending drones-Kamikadze is a difficult task with a minimal efficiency and a major negative effect.
Hit rocket weapons? If a rocket X-101 in the number of more than 10 units arrives in Poland or by any other logistics unit in Poland, then this will probably be just an excuse to use the fifth collective security article. Not what we are with You have seen what happened in Poland recently after the arrival of Gerber.
Therefore, Russia is unlikely to dare to be obvious. These will be diversions, it will be attempts to somehow damage the railway tracks, set on fire. How it happened in Germany on some objects through which Ukraine was provided with equipment and more.
So, everything will be in hybrid format, as it happened in 2022, 2023 and 2024. I do not think that something critically and globally will change in the near future. Although Russia would like to do it, it is not ready for it yet. “