Ukrainian troops struck a cargo train taking fuel to Russian army in southeastern Zaporizhzhia region on August 19. The air strike launched by Ukrainian partisans and operators from Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate, HUR, took place between the occupied Tokmak city and occupied Urozhanie settlement in the region. The drones first derailed the train, attacked its locomotive and then torched nine out of its thirty fuel cars, local Telegram channels reported.
“The train has derailed and is now being finished off by anything that can fly. It’s burning beautifully. The Ukrainian Defense Forces in Zaporizhzhia are once again reducing Russian logistics to zero…and it looks just epic from the ground,” Petro Andriushchenko, a Ukrainian government official reporting on military operations, reported. Pyotr Andriushchenko, former adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, said the torching of the train destroyed the railway connection in the region.
The satellite images and footage released in social media show the fire in the area. The attack preceded another Ukrainian drone attack on a major oil refinery deep in southern Russia’s Volgograd region, setting multiple reservoirs in fire and destroying production facilities. It followed Russian drone and missile attack on energy infrastructure in Ukraine’s central Poltava region on the same day.
