Variety of fires at Russian railroads will increase in March, army intelligence says

Railroad fires elevated in a number of Russian areas in March, Ukraine's army intelligence (HUR) stated on April 16.

Railways are a key technique of transportation utilized by the Russian military to hold gear and personnel to the fight zone in Ukraine and Russia's Kursk Oblast, which the Ukrainian army entered in August 2024.

Professional-Ukrainian partisans repeatedly sabotage railroads to hinder Russian army efforts.

The March fires destroyed six models of traction rolling inventory in Moscow, Samara, and Tver oblasts, in addition to 9 railway signaling, centralization, and interlocking gadgets within the Republic of Mari El, Stavropol, and Krasnoyarsk areas, in keeping with army intelligence.

In Moscow Oblast, an influence transformer and a tank automobile with gasoline additionally burned down.

"The battle in opposition to the availability of ammunition and army gear to the Russian occupation military by rail continues," the assertion learn.

In late March, the Atesh partisan group sabotaged a railway line in Russia's Smolensk Oblast, disrupting the transport of army cargo towards Bryansk and Kursk oblasts.

The Atesh motion repeatedly conducts sabotage assaults in Russia and Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine.

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