A Ukrainian soldier fires a rocket launcher during a military exercise in the Kharkiv region.
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Again, unknown perpetrators blow up rails, another freight train derails: While the international wait for the Ukrainian counter-offensive, attacks on Russian infrastructure are increasing. The overview.
ZFor the second time in a short space of time, a freight train derailed after an explosion in the Russian border region near Ukraine. In the Bryansk region, not far from the settlement of Belye Berega, a locomotive and around 20 wagons went off the rails on Tuesday evening “due to illegal interference with the work of railway transport”, the Russian railway RZD announced on Telegram. A train derailed in the same region on Monday after strangers blew up the rails.
The governor of Bryansk, Alexander Bogomas, wrote of an “unknown explosive device” that had exploded. According to initial reports, no one was injured. It was initially unclear who was behind the alleged sabotage.
A little later on Tuesday evening, Russian Telegram channels also said that in the Belgorod region, which also borders Ukraine, a drone had dropped an explosive device near a defense facility under construction. A man was injured in the process. This was not officially confirmed at first. According to the governor of the region, a fuel depot caught fire in the Krasnodar region of Russia. “This is a fire of the highest severity class,” Governor Veniamin Kondratiev wrote on the Telegram news service. The region is located in southwestern Russia on the Azov Sea across from Ukraine.