Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate, known as HUR, has claimed responsibility for the derailment of two trains in separate incidents in Russia’s Western Leningrad region on Sunday.
The incident occurred after an explosion on a section of rail track in Russia's western Oryol region, killing three Russian national guard officers.
"The train driver was killed. He was trapped in the cabin and died in an ambulance after being unblocked," Leningrad Governor Alexander Drozdenko said on Telegram. He added that “recovery efforts are underway following the derailment of a single diesel locomotive near Semrino station in Leningrad's Gatchina district.”
The freight train was carrying 15 empty tank cars and derailed between the villages of Stroganovo and Mshinskaya. A source within HUR told AFP that the tanks were "destroyed along with their fuel,” adding that Kyiv had targeted "critically important logistical links in supplying the occupying forces in the Kharkiv and Sumy directions."
"As a result of the destruction of the railway infrastructure in these areas, the Russians will experience significant logistical difficulties," it said.
