Ukrainian drone attack disrupts rail service on Moscow-Simferopol route in occupied Crimea
A Ukrainian drone attacked a train traveling from Moscow to Simferopol, killing an assistant driver and wounding the lead driver. Rail service was suspended along multiple routes to and from Simferopol following the attack.
A Ukrainian drone attacked a train traveling from Moscow to Simferopol, killing an assistant driver and wounding the lead driver. Rail service was suspended along multiple routes to and from Simferopol in occupied Crimea following the drone attack. According to themoscowtimes.com, passengers stranded by the rail suspension were being transported by bus to their destinations. The only remaining rail link from Crimea to the Russian mainland is via the Kerch bridge, according to themoscowtimes.com.
Ukrainian drone strikes have disrupted fuel supplies to occupied Crimea, causing widespread fuel shortages, long queues, and rationing, according to kyivpost.com. Mikhail Razvozhaev, the Moscow-appointed governor of Sevastopol, announced that AN-92 and AN-95 gasoline would not be on sale except to ration ticket holders. Razvozhaev stated that the fuel shortages were temporary and that authorities had the situation under control, according to kyivpost.com.
The Atesh partisan movement claimed to have sabotaged a railway line near occupied Simferopol, temporarily halting train traffic and disrupting supplies for Russian forces on the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia fronts, according to united24media.com. The movement also claimed to have disabled relay equipment near Armiansk in Crimea on October 26, 2023, and to have sabotaged railway infrastructure in Russia’s Rostov region on October 12, 2023, according to united24media.com.
A Russian court convicted Pavlo Levchenko of 'treason' and 'terrorism' over alleged damage to railway tracks obstructing Russia’s war against Ukraine, according to khpg.org. The Southern District Military Court in Rostov is notorious since 2014 for passing lengthy sentences against Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian political prisoners, according to khpg.org. There are doubts about whether real evidence was presented against Levchenko, according to khpg.org.
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