This is absolutely huge. Logistic constriction into the Tokmak axis will render the defense in depth impossible.
Uhoh, I mean woohoo!
This is how it’s done ! Yes ! Nice job.
Repairing the track is one thing, removing the wreckage beforehand is another.
I think they should blow up all the locomotives. It seems a harder thing to remake compared to laying new track.
In 1979, Gen. Robert H. Barrow, then commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps., uttered the mpw famous phrase, “Amateurs talk about tactics, but professionals study logistics.”
Russian logistics is rail-based, and hasn’t changed all that much in theory or practice since Ukrainians were part of the Soviet Union going to Soviet military schools. They know exactly how Russian logistics work. What is more, it’s Ukrainian rail infrastructure the Russians are using here. The Ukrainians know every railway siding and interlocking series of switches just by looking at their own maps without eyes in the sky —which they absolutely do have on top of everything else.
As Ukrainian artillery, drones, and airstrikes come into effective range of rail lines, cutting off Russian front lines from food, fuel, and ammo is going to become a matter of routine. I know we have been saying things like, “We’re lucky the Russians are so stupid” and “Who would have believed they couldn’t force project into a country right on their border?” but realistically as soon as this war became about static defenses, it switched to being a war where men and materiel flow to the front on rails, and Ukraine knows where all the rails are, and when the trains are running, and probably to a large extent what is on those trains at any given time.
I would not want to be the Russian in charge of logistics right now. They are going to have to figure out how to get trainloads of goods to the front without trains pretty soon. They don’t have air superiority and don’t expect to get it. What is the alternative? Mule trains going cross-country? How long before the local Ukrainians behind enemy lines start communicating that back over to Ukrainian forces? It would be even more of a turkey shoot than the trains.
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>Details: In turn, the Centre of National Resistance reported that “Melitopol partisans” blew up the occupiers’ train, which **daily transported ammunition and petrol from Crimea to Melitopol and Dniprorudne, and carried damaged equipment and loot in the form of iron ore, grain and other property in the opposite direction.**
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>The controlled explosion **damaged 150 metres of railway and a locomotive**.
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>The National Resistance Center said that the **occupiers have surrounded the site of the explosion and are trying to hide the fact of the sabotage**, unsuccessfully searching for the partisans.
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>”**The partisans are already safe** and promise more such explosions in the near future,” the Center notes.
Слава партизанам! Stay safe and destructive! 
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This is absolutely huge. Logistic constriction into the Tokmak axis will render the defense in depth impossible.
Uhoh, I mean woohoo!
This is how it’s done ! Yes ! Nice job.
Repairing the track is one thing, removing the wreckage beforehand is another.
I think they should blow up all the locomotives. It seems a harder thing to remake compared to laying new track.
In 1979, Gen. Robert H. Barrow, then commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps., uttered the mpw famous phrase, “Amateurs talk about tactics, but professionals study logistics.”
Russian logistics is rail-based, and hasn’t changed all that much in theory or practice since Ukrainians were part of the Soviet Union going to Soviet military schools. They know exactly how Russian logistics work. What is more, it’s Ukrainian rail infrastructure the Russians are using here. The Ukrainians know every railway siding and interlocking series of switches just by looking at their own maps without eyes in the sky —which they absolutely do have on top of everything else.
As Ukrainian artillery, drones, and airstrikes come into effective range of rail lines, cutting off Russian front lines from food, fuel, and ammo is going to become a matter of routine. I know we have been saying things like, “We’re lucky the Russians are so stupid” and “Who would have believed they couldn’t force project into a country right on their border?” but realistically as soon as this war became about static defenses, it switched to being a war where men and materiel flow to the front on rails, and Ukraine knows where all the rails are, and when the trains are running, and probably to a large extent what is on those trains at any given time.
I would not want to be the Russian in charge of logistics right now. They are going to have to figure out how to get trainloads of goods to the front without trains pretty soon. They don’t have air superiority and don’t expect to get it. What is the alternative? Mule trains going cross-country? How long before the local Ukrainians behind enemy lines start communicating that back over to Ukrainian forces? It would be even more of a turkey shoot than the trains.
Excerpt:
>Details: In turn, the Centre of National Resistance reported that “Melitopol partisans” blew up the occupiers’ train, which **daily transported ammunition and petrol from Crimea to Melitopol and Dniprorudne, and carried damaged equipment and loot in the form of iron ore, grain and other property in the opposite direction.**
>
>The controlled explosion **damaged 150 metres of railway and a locomotive**.
>
>The National Resistance Center said that the **occupiers have surrounded the site of the explosion and are trying to hide the fact of the sabotage**, unsuccessfully searching for the partisans.
>
>”**The partisans are already safe** and promise more such explosions in the near future,” the Center notes.
Слава партизанам! Stay safe and destructive! 