Ukraine Blows Up All 16 Major Russian Railway Nodes!

Today, the biggest news comes from the Russian Federation.

Here, Ukrainians unleashed a devastating rail campaign that systematically targeted Russia’s core supply arteries across multiple regions. With the flow of troops, fuel, and equipment disrupted or halted completely, Ukrainians severed the veins that keep the Russian war effort alive.

Just two days ago, three Russian National Guard officers were killed by a mine planted under the rail line in the Oryol region. The explosion halted the connection to Kursk and delayed more than 15 trains, a direct hit on one of the primary corridors of supplying Russian forces along the Kharkiv and Sumy regions.

That same night, sabotage in Leningrad Oblast derailed a locomotive pulling 15 fuel tankers. Rail traffic in both directions was stopped, and a train operator was killed. In Tver, Ukrainian military intelligence conducted a precision operation, planting explosives beneath parked fuel cars and remotely detonating them at the main junction.

Farther south, Ukrainian Special Operation Forces confirmed a successful strike on a fuel train at Dzhankoi station in Crimea, disrupting supply to Russia’s southern grouping of forces. And in a particularly brutal sequence near Ostrykivk in the Zaporizhia region, Ukrainian forces blew up a rail line, derailed a freight train, and then used FPV drones to ignite the spilled fuel. These are not isolated incidents; they are the sharp edge of a campaign to make rail-based Russian logistics near impossible.

The pace and precision of the campaign are accelerating, as Ukraine is now striking deeper, more frequently, and with a broader toolkit of rail bombs, FPV’s, sabotage units, and coordinated drone raids. This reflects not only Ukrainian innovation, but also a strategic playbook outlined months ago in reports and echoed by Russian analysts.

Railways are Russia’s logistical backbone, as nearly all heavy equipment, fuel, and personnel destined for Ukraine pass through a handful of chokepoints, bridges, traction substations, and switching stations. Suppose two or three such disruptions happen at once; in that case, reserves get stuck, rotations are missed, and continuous offensive pressure collapses, allowing Ukrainian frontline soldiers to deal with scattered offensives more easily.

Beyond the headline strikes, the rest of the rear is also under strain, because in the Leningrad region, three more cars were derailed, and in the Komi region, partisans set fire to a locomotive on the station.

Drone attacks damaged relay cabinets at Archeda station in Volgograd and sparked fires across multiple rail points in Rostov. In Voronezh, a Ukrainian strike hit a traction substation that powers the Zhuravka-Millerovo line, a route built to bypass Ukrainian territory, and forced an automatic shutdown of the nearby nuclear reactor due to electrical instability.

Krasnodar and Bryansk also saw substations hit, both key to moving trains along the southern corridor. In Melitopol, Ukrainian intelligence blew up an ammo depot linked to a railway route and killed multiple Russian marines, while additional fuel trains were targeted in Molochansk and in southern Zaporizhia.

The pattern of strikes follows a clear logic, not just targeting moving trains, but attacking the static infrastructure that supports them: substations, relay boxes, and switching stations are now regular targets. In total, Russian sources admit that over 250 trains were delayed in recent weeks alone, with the bulk of the economic disruption stemming from strikes in the Rostov, Volgograd, and Krasnodar regions. It is a map-wide degradation that may not fully paralyze Russian logistics in a single stroke, but it is sustained, and increasingly difficult for Moscow to contain.

Overall, the collapse of Russian logistics is no longer a prediction; it is a visible process unfolding in real time. Ukraine has found the formula in bypassing hardened military targets and striking the soft, static infrastructure that supports them. Rail sabotage, fuel train ambushes, and targeted substation attacks have left Russia scrambling to repair, reroute, and recover their railway network.

With each strike the cost of moving supplies grows, and the margin for sustaining their various offensives narrows. If this tempo holds, Russia may soon be unable to move fast enough to fight at all, as many sectors are already seeing the Russian offensive tempo decrease dramatically.

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