The Ostanovi vagony group has derailed trains from Murmansk to the Chinese border.
Britain’s military intelligence said Wednesday morning on his Twitter account that Monday’s bombing of Russian railways west of the small town of Novozybkov near the border with Belarus was the handiwork of a Russian sabotage group called Ostanovi vagony, or Stop the Wagons.
Governor of the Bryansk region Aleksandr Bogomaz told about the explosion on his Twitter account and announced that crime investigators were there. News Agency of Ukraine of the Union according to the residents of the border region on the Belarusian side, late on Monday evening, they heard two strong explosions from the Russian side.
Based on the pictures, the railroad tracks are broken.
The railway from Moscow to Homel in southern Belarus passes through Novozybkov. If Russia intends to maintain its troops behind the northern border of Ukraine by rail, the trains must go around from the north via Smolensk and Minsk.
British Intelligence pointed out in his tweet that the Russian armed forces are highly dependent on rail transport. According to intelligence, it was already the sixth attack on Russian railways since June, involving the Ostanovi vagony group.
Attacks on Russian railways have been carried out during the ongoing war of aggression significantly more than the mentioned six. Rails have been damaged the most near the Ukrainian border in Belgorod, Kursk and Bryansk regions.
Sometimes the rails have been fired with grenades or missiles from the Ukrainian side. At least, if the Russian regional authorities are to be believed. This happened last Friday in Novoi Oskol in the Belgotod region, 45 kilometers from the Ukrainian border. The governor of the region Vyacheslav Gladkovin according to the track’s power lines were destroyed in a missile strike.
Sometimes sabotage groups are behind the railway attacks in the border region. Among the most famous is the April, devastating strike on the track near the station village of Šebekino, halfway between Kharkiv, Ukraine, and Belgorod, Russia. In most of the attacks in the border region, the perpetrator has remained unknown.
stopovi According to the Russian media, the vagony group has registered as a perpetrator in at least eight explosions or other train derailments in different parts of Russia.
The first attack was already carried out on the night between March 23rd and 24th at the Vihodnoi station on the southern edge of Murmansk, or more precisely, the city of Kola, which grew up next to it. Ukrainian magazine New government characterized the accident as “the worst for Russian railways in years”. According to the newspaper, 20 wagons derailed and 14 of them overturned, the track was torn for 300 meters. There was no information about the cargo of the freight train.
After this, the group has told about attacks all over Russia. The easternmost was done at the end of June in the station village of Skibojevo in the Amur region, 70 kilometers from the Chinese border. The impact interrupted the traffic on the busy Siberian railway.
The southernmost attack took place on the night of July 23-24 in Makhachkala, Dagestan.
The attacks have not necessarily targeted the transports of the armed forces, but the purpose has been to cut rail connections that are important for the maintenance and replenishment of the army. For example, on the evening of July 19, in an attack in Lesosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk region, the tracks derailed NGS24 news site including a train loaded with cement.
With a sabotage group has its own website and Telegram channel, to which access from Russia was already blocked by the authorities in the summer. On their website the group aims to mass disrupt rail transport by advising its followers to connect rails on considered important sections of track to each other with a thick cable.
The trick closes level crossings and stops the flow of other trains when the traditional warning system thinks a train is approaching. Any iron pipe basically does the same thing as a cable, but it’s easier to spot.
The size of the group is not known, but observers estimate that it may be quite small.
For secret work has apparently also been taken and not only in Russia. The railway authorities of Belarus reported more than 80 “acts of terror and sabotage” already at the beginning of April, when the war of aggression had been going on for more than a month.
Such a number of bombings has hardly been carried out in Belarus.