{"id":356420,"date":"2025-08-19T09:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/356420\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:14:09","slug":"ukrainian-saboteurs-launch-huge-attack-on-russian-train-with-no-one-left-alive-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/356420\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian saboteurs launch huge attack on Russian train with &#8216;no one left alive&#8217; | World | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian forces behind Russian lines in Zaporizhzhia have launched a major attack, destroying a fuel train, according to pro-Ukrainian sources. The Head of the Centre for the Study of Occupation, Petro Andryushchenko, said: &#8220;Nothing alive was left. Who asked why the Russians were hauling fuel and cars at night? That&#8217;s why. To avoid such losses. It didn&#8217;t work. A unique operation by the Defence Forces of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/ukraine\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukraine<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Images shared to Telegram show the huge train burning in several places. There has been no official comment from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/ukraine\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukraine<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/russia\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russia<\/a> as is stands. The logistics train was reportedly derailed in the attack which was carried out between Urozhayny and Tokmak in <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/ukraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukraine<\/a>&#8216;s south.<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear how the attack was launched.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/ukraine\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukraine<\/a> has had several successes in operations deep behind enemy lines, most notably in June when more than 100 Ukrainian drones struck air bases deep inside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/russia\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The daring operation, dubbed Spider&#8217;s Web, took more than 18 months to plan, according to Ukrainian President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/volodymyr-zelensky\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This latest attack comes a day after Russian missile strikes killed three and injured 20 in Zaporizhzhia City.<\/p>\n<p>Russian forces control significant areas of Zaporizhzhia and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/vladimir-putin\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vladimir Putin<\/a> reportedly told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/2097121\/express.co.uk\/latest\/donald-trump\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> he is prepared to freeze the frontline there and in Kherson, in exchange for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/ukraine\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukraine<\/a> withdrawing from the Donetsk and Luhansk regions that make up the Donbas.<\/p>\n<p>The two leaders met for talks in Alaska on Friday which Mr Trump described as &#8220;productive&#8221; but no deal was reached on ending the war.<\/p>\n<p>However, US special envoy Steve Witkoff later confirmed the Russian President agreed at the summit that the US and its European allies could offer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/ukraine\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukraine<\/a> a security guarantee aking to NATO\u2019s collective defence Article 5 as part of an eventual peace deal.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Trump welcomed European leaders, including Mr Zelensky and Sir <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/keir-starmer\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Keir Starmer<\/a>, to the White House on Monday for further discussions on the war.<\/p>\n<p>He affirmed America would back European security guarantees aimed at preventing Moscow from reinvading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/ukraine\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Trump said the US would provide <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/ukraine\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukraine<\/a> with a &#8220;very good security guarantee&#8221; but European countries would be the &#8220;first line of defence&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS STORY&#8230; FOLLOW BELOW FOR UPDATES&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukrainian forces behind Russian lines in Zaporizhzhia have launched a major attack, destroying a fuel train, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[125614,12,7661,125612,7857,657,125611,26,125613],"class_list":{"0":"post-356420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-fuel-train-destruction","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-russia-ukraine-war","11":"tag-russian-train","12":"tag-trains","13":"tag-ukraine","14":"tag-ukrainian-saboteurs","15":"tag-world","16":"tag-zaporizhzhia-attack"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115054672016264478","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}