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Russia strikes Ukrainian freight train amid ceasefire offers

A Russian drone struck a civilian freight train in Donetsk Oblast, injuring the train’s engineer, Ukraine’s state railway operator Ukrzaliznytsia (Ukrainian Railways) reported on May 12.

12 May 2025, 11:04 AM

HUR special operation destroys two locomotives in Russia’s Voronezh and Moscow Oblast

A locomotive involved in transporting weapons and military equipment from Russian defense businesses to occupied Ukrainian territories was disabled overnight on March 6 in Voronezh, Russia, as part of a special operation conducted by Ukraine’s HUR military intelligence agency, NV sources reported.

8 March 2025, 11:09 AM

Russian forces target Ukraine's railway network in Donetsk

Russian forces shelled Kostiantynivka in Donetsk Oblast early on Jan. 8, damaging a Ukrainian Railways facility, according to Serhii Horbunov, head of the Kostiantynivka Military Administration.

8 January 2025, 12:41 PM

Russian assault targets Ukraine’s Railway network

The railway's overhead contact system in Kyiv Oblast was damaged in a Russian overnight strike, Ukrianian Railways (Ukrzaliznytsia) press service reported on Telegram on Jan. 6.

6 January 2025, 11:29 AM

Railway explodes in Moscow Oblast, freight train destroyed — HUR

An explosion on the railway in Voskresensk, Moscow Oblast, destroyed freight train cars used by the Russians for logistics, according to Ukraine’s HUR on Dec. 28.

28 December 2024, 02:03 PM

Ukraine’s HUR reports on railway explosion in Russian Ulyanovsk

An explosion destroyed a railway track in the Russian city of Ulyanovsk on Dec. 14, with a video of the incident released by Ukraine’s HUR on Dec. 15.

15 December 2024, 05:53 PM

SBU destroys Russian fuel train in Zaporizhzhya

Ukraine’s SBU, together with the Tavria Defense Forces, HUR, SSO, and SBS, on Dec. 14 carried out a complex, multi-stage special operation to destroy a Russian fuel train in Zaporizhzhya Oblast, sources within Ukraine’s security services and defense forces told NV.

15 December 2024, 01:58 PM

Atesh targets Russian strategic military supply route in Kursk Oblast

The Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar resistance movement Atesh carried out a sabotage operation on a major railway line in Russia’s Kursk Oblast, according to its report on Telegram on Sept. 30.

30 September 2024, 09:25 AM

Freight train derails in Russia’s Belgorod Oblast, authorities cite railway interference

A locomotive and several cars of a freight train derailed in the Novy Oskol urban district of Belgorod Oblast, said regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov on Sept. 11.

11 September 2024, 10:48 AM

Molotov cocktail ignites railway substation in Moscow suburb

Unidentified assailants set fire to a railway substation in a Moscow suburb with a Molotov cocktail, the Russian Baza Telegram channel reported on Aug. 23.

23 August 2024, 01:01 PM

ATESH partisans destroy important Russian logistical hub in occupied Donetsk - NRC

Resistance movement Atesh set fire to a relay box on the railway, used by the Russian army to transport equipment and soldiers, in temporarily occupied Donetsk, the National Resistance Center (NRC) reported on Telegram on August 4.

5 August 2024, 08:06 AM

Russian attack on Poltava railway disrupts train schedules

Russia struck railway infrastructure in Poltava Oblast, causing significant delays for several trains in the Kharkiv direction, Ukrainian railways reported on Aug. 4.

4 August 2024, 01:08 PM

Conductor injured, trains damaged in Russian strike on Kharkiv railway station

Russia launched a missile strike on a railway station in Kharkiv Oblast, injuring a conductor with shrapnel wounds. The conductor received first aid and refused hospitalization, Ukrainian Railways reported on Facebook on Aug. 1.

1 August 2024, 12:35 PM

Russia steals Ukraine’s minerals via Crimean Bridge — British intelligence

British intelligence believes Russia is enhancing transportation networks in occupied Ukrainian territories to extract and transport more minerals across the Crimean bridge, the British Ministry of Defense reported on July 4.

4 July 2024, 05:20 PM

ATESH guerrillas set relay cabinet on fire on Russian Rostov-on-Don-Mariupol railroad

In early May, advisor to the mayor of Mariupol, Petro Andriushchenko, reported that Russians almost completed construction of a railway to connect Rostov-on-Don with Mariupol, where ATESH movement burned a relay cabinet, ATESH reported on Telegram on June 23.

23 June 2024, 02:11 PM

Drone strikes fuel train in Russia's Volgograd Oblast, causing explosion, derailment, and spill

A train carrying fuel derailed in Russia overnight following an attack by an unknown drone, causing nine cars to derail and at least two to explode and ignite a fire, Russian Telegram channel Baza claimed.

14 May 2024, 10:27 AM

Russia stikes railway station in Kherson in latest attack

Russia targeted civilian rail infrastructure in Kherson on May 8, Ukrzaliznytsia (Ukrainian Railways) reported on Facebook.

8 May 2024, 02:16 PM

25 years in prison for Ukrainian accused of setting Russian railway on fire

A Ukrainian national, Serhiy Karmazin, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for allegedly setting fire to railway equipment in Moscow Oblast, according to the Solidarity Zone project report on April 30. Karmazin was also fined 700,000 rubles (approximately $7,500).

30 April 2024, 06:45 PM

Ukrainian railway lifts restrictions on transportation to one of Black Sea ports

Ukrzaliznytsia (UZ) has lifted the temporary ban on cargo transportation in direction of port of Chornomorsk, company reported on its website on April 22.

22 April 2024, 02:31 PM

Family of Russian spies detained for planning attacks on Ukraine's railways

Ukraine's SBU security service has apprehended a family suspected of being Russian agents, accused of plotting an attack on key railway infrastructure in Kharkiv Oblast, agency reported on Telegram on April 3.

3 April 2024, 01:50 PM

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