Soldiers killed and tankers destroyed in Russia, while in Ukraine a train carriage carrying ammunition is destroyed in apparent accident. What we know on day 1,300
A source in Ukrainian military intelligence confirmed it was behind two attacks on railways that left three Russian national guard officers dead. The soldiers died when a bomb blew up a section of track in Russia’s western Oryol region late on Saturday, said the local Russian governor, Andrei Klychkov. The source in Ukraine’s GUR military intelligence told AFP that in another attack, tanker carriages were “destroyed along with their fuel”. A Russian official confirmed the derailment of freight train carrying 15 fuel tankers between the villages of Stroganovo and Mshinskaya. The Ukrainian GRU source said attacks targeted supply lines for Russian forces in the Kharkiv and Sumy areas of Ukraine. “As a result of the destruction of the railway infrastructure in these areas, the Russians will experience significant logistical difficulties.”
The Ukrainians said they also carried out a drone attack on a chemicals factory producing ingredients for explosives in Russia’s Perm region, more than 1,500km from the border between the two countries. Reports said the target was a plant in Gubakha town owned by Metafrax which is under UK and Ukrainian sanctions for supplying the Russian military.
