The Belarusian railway saboteurs who helped thwart Russia’s attack on Kyiv

WaPost ^ | 23-APR-2022 | Liz Sly

[SpeedyInTexas]

When Russian troops first streamed across the Belarusian border into Ukraine for what they had assumed would be a lightning assault on Kyiv, they were intending to rely on the region’s extensive rail network for supplies and reinforcements.

The Russians hadn’t taken into account the railway saboteurs of Belarus.

Starting in the earliest days of the invasion in February, a clandestine network of railway workers, hackers and dissident security forces went into action to disable or disrupt the railway links connecting Russia to Ukraine through Belarus, wreaking havoc on Russian supply lines.

[rrrod]

Little doubt Putin will eventually win. But then what?

[vladimir998]

What you’re saying makes no sense. Putin clearly expected to take Kiev in just a few days. If he didn’t he would not have removed so many of his own officers. The simple fact is that Putin and his generals are stunned at their losses. Yes, they might still win the East and South because they care so little about the lives o f their own men, but Putin thought this was going to be a cake walk like South Ossetia. Instead, he’s gotten a bloody nose and may never fully recover.