Posted on 05/02/2023 9:16:01 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
An explosive device derailed a Russian freight train in a region bordering Ukraine for a second straight day Tuesday ahead of an expected counteroffensive by Kyiv.
Russian territory and Crimea, annexed by Moscow in 2014, have been hit in recent days by a series of attacks.
The last four days have seen two trains derailed by explosions, a suspected drone hitting an oil depot in Crimea that caused a huge blaze and power lines blown up near Saint Petersburg.
The strikes come as Russia gears up to celebrate May 9, a holiday marking the Soviet victory over the Nazis that has become a central event during President Vladimir Putin's rule.
Ukraine has followed its usual line of not claiming responsibility for the attacks, which came as Kyiv said it is finalising preparations for a spring offensive announced weeks ago.
Alexander Bogomaz, the governor of Russia's western Bryansk region, said Tuesday the train was derailed by an "unidentified explosive device."
He said it went off at Snezhetskaya station, outside the regional hub of Bryansk, a city of around 370,000 people near the Ukraine and Belarus borders.
"A locomotive and several wagons of the train derailed," he said, adding that there were no casualties.
On Monday, a similar explosion caused a train to derail and catch fire near Unecha, in the same region but closer to the Ukraine border.
Throughout its more than year-long offensive, the Kremlin has sought to portray Russia as safe while its troops fight in Ukraine.
Earlier on Tuesday it acknowledged a security threat.
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Karma?
no , Train-mah 😉
The good news just keeps adding up. These indeed may be preliminary efforts to hamper Russia’s supply logistics prior to Ukraine’s promised offensive. There are several Google posts about the train derailed by explosives. The aljazeera link below includes a nice map showing the location in Russia about equidistant from Ukraine and Belarus.
This next link reports another recent train derailment with fire also in the Bryansk region but closer to Ukraine. There is also a second link at this one, perhaps with photo of the other derailment.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65458847
Given how close these two rail “accidents” are to both Ukraine AND Belarus, and given that there are units of Belarusian defectors fighting with Ukraine, these derailments might have been a Belarusian gift to the war effort. In fact, Belarusian train workers causing trouble in Belarus are another reason Putin decided to pull out and move over to the east and southeast of Ukraine once his Kiev effort failed.
Looks like a whistle isn’t the only thing that blows on Russian trains!
https://twitter.com/GeoConfirmed/status/1653312107889270784?s=20
The best one of all. Looked like a nuke almost! The TU-95s hit the rocket fuel dump. Glad the crews got home safe!
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Yay for Ukraine! All you Biden lovers should be gleeful
Yay for Ukraine! All you Biden lovers should be gleeful
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A VIEW FROM THE EDGE OF THE ABYSS
As Mark Wauck summarizes “Ukraine’s professional military knows that the offensive would be suicidal. Ukrainian losses of manpower continue to be extremely heavy—Russia is claiming that Ukraine lost 15,000 men in April. Losses of equipment are reaching catastrophic levels as well, as Russian attacks have heavily targeted assembly areas for munitions and equipment.”
If Zelensky’s cowardice allows America’s foreign policy neocon scum to push Ukraine into a doomed offensive, it will be the most wasted effusion of blood yet in this catastrophic “proxy war.” And it will be the most disgraceful ending possible to the Neocon’s 30 years “forever war” that dropped the United States from a half century illusion of dominant hegemony to an also ran with an obsolete defense establishment and a wrecked economy, all in less than 2 years..
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