Sabotage
Railway
Yekaterinburg fuel train arson
4–5 November 2022 · location approximate
Yekaterinburg, Russia
Incident location
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56.8389, 60.6057
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What happened
The Freedom of Russia Legion, a Ukraine-aligned group of former Russian military personnel, said its members set fire to a freight train carrying fuel intended for Russian forces near Yekaterinburg on the night of 4–5 November 2022. No casualties were reported. This is among the earliest fuel-specific rail-sabotage claims of the full-scale war; the exact site and extent of tanker damage have not been independently confirmed.
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- Evidence
- Reported / attributed
- Confidence
- Moderate
- Infrastructure
- Railway
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- Latitude
- 56.8389°
- Longitude
- 60.6057°
Attribution
Claimed by Freedom of Russia Legion🇷🇺