Sabotage

Railway

Melitopol railway sabotage — fuel and ammunition train

13 October 2023 · approximately 07:40 local time

Russian-occupied Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine

46.8500, 35.3700

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What happened

Ukraine's National Resistance Center said its Melitopol-area partisan network detonated an explosive under a train that regularly carried fuel and ammunition from Crimea to Russian-occupied Melitopol and Dniprorudne, alongside looted grain and iron ore on return trips. The Center said roughly 150 meters of track and the locomotive were damaged, and described the operation as at least the tenth successful rail-sabotage act it had claimed in occupied Zaporizhzhia Oblast since the full-scale invasion began. No casualties were reported. This is a resistance-movement claim relayed by Ukrainian outlets; Russian occupation authorities did not confirm the incident and were reported to have sought to conceal it.

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Evidence
Reported / attributed
Confidence
Moderate
Infrastructure
Railway
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Latitude
46.8500°
Longitude
35.3700°

Attribution

Claimed by Ukraine's Special Operations Forces — National Resistance Center

Sources

  1. Resistance blows up train carrying Russian ammunition and fuel in occupied MelitopolKyiv Independent · Incident reporting