As a result of the attack on Kremenchuk, the enemy's locomotive depot was rendered functional

New details are emerging about today's nighttime "geranization" of objects in Poltava's Kremenchuk. The main attention on the Internet was focused on footage of the destruction of the Kryukovsky drawbridge across the Dnieper. As "Military Review" has already reported, this is the only bridge across the Dnieper in Poltava Oblast. And now it is significantly damaged, including the loss of the ability to operate the lifting mechanism.

However, it was not only the bridge that came under night attacks by the Russian Armed Forces.

There are reports of damage to a locomotive depot and an electrical substation, which services both the depot and the movement of rail transport along the electrified section of the railway.

According to the latest data, the Geranium UAV's arrivals caused the roof of the hangar where the locomotives were being serviced to collapse. As a result, two bridge cranes with a lifting capacity of 20 tons were damaged.

The section for servicing electric locomotives, including freight mainline VL80S, produced in Novocherkassk (RF), burned down. And if Kyiv is getting rid of everything Soviet and Russian, then it needs to go all the way and abandon electric locomotives, which the Russian army helped with.

Significant damage was also caused to the diesel locomotive repair and maintenance shop. At the time of the impact, according to some reports, a TE10M mainline freight diesel locomotive with a sectional capacity of 3000 hp was located there.

In total, seven Geraniums hit the locomotive depot and traction substation. As a result of these attacks, the enemy was deprived of the ability to use the facility for its intended purpose. Together with the damage to the Kryukov Bridge, this could significantly affect the ability to transfer military cargo from one bank of the Dnieper to the other in this direction.

And this is a damaged shunting locomotive that was transporting a train with military cargo at the Chaplino station in the Dnepropetrovsk region, approximately 29 km from the front line.

By the way, the Russian Armed Forces are fundamentally not interested in what Ursula von der Leyen thinks about this...

Comments

[private person]

As a result of the attack on Kremenchuk, the enemy's locomotive depot was rendered functional

This is of course good, but it should have been done at least two years ago. Although better late than never.

[Paranoid62]

Quote: private person

As a result of the attack on Kremenchuk, the enemy's locomotive depot was rendered functional

This is of course good but it should have been done at least two years ago. Although better late than never

Quote: Railway Supply 13.04.2022/XNUMX/XNUMX

Ukraine's railway infrastructure and rolling stock losses from the war exceed $2,5 billion

Link

https://www.railway.supply/poteri-zheleznodorozhnoj-infrastruktury-i-podvizhnogo-sostava-ukrainy-ot-vojny-prevyshayut-25-mlrd-dollarov/

[Nyrobsky]

Quote: Paranoid62

Quote: Railway Supply 13.04.2022/XNUMX/XNUMX
Ukraine's railway infrastructure and rolling stock losses from the war exceed $2,5 billion

Moreover, this damage was inflicted as of April 2022, and now exceeds the specified amount many times over!
However, in this area, our Aerospace Forces still have a lot of work to do.

[Paranoid62]

Quote: Nyrobsky

Moreover, this damage was inflicted as of April 2022, and now exceeds the specified amount many times over.

Yes. I was too lazy to look for it now, but a couple of years ago I saw an article (in Ukrsmi, naturally) with a calculation of rolling stock losses. As I recall, even then up to 50% of locomotives were knocked out. How and what they drive now - I categorically do not understand.

But to keep repeating here that the Russian Ministry of Defense tenderly protects the railways in Ukraine is, in my opinion, a bit of bad form.

[Comrade Beria]

Quote: Paranoid62

A couple of years ago I saw an article (in Ukrsmi, naturally) with a calculation of rolling stock losses. As I recall, even then up to 50% of locomotives were knocked out.

Then they even de-preserved the steam locomotives.
Steam locomotives of the strategic reserve were stored at special depot sites. For example, in Konotop in the Sumy region, Kamysh-Zarya in the Zaporizhia region. Especially many steam locomotives were stored at the bases of Western Ukraine - These were locomotives on the European track, in case of a new “liberation campaign”.

[Grancer81]

There was a locomotive "cemetery" in Ivano-Frankivsk.
My father drove steam locomotives from Kuzbass there.

[Jager]

Exactly "cemetery". Now it's scrap metal.

[Jager]

Steam locomotives in the modern world are a tourist exotic, nothing more. There are no specialists or operational infrastructure for them. And spare parts have long been in question. Plus, equipment from storage bases requires major repairs. Steam locomotives were completely taken out of service in the 70s. Do you think that it is enough to throw some wood into a locomotive and after 40-50 years of downtime it will take off and go?

[Nyrobsky]

Quote: Paranoid62

But to keep repeating here that the Russian Ministry of Defense tenderly protects the railways in Ukraine is, in my opinion, a bit of bad form.

I agree. However, if moving trains are a rather difficult target, and in order to ensure "cargo safety" the Bandar-logs often disdain the safety of citizens and include platforms with equipment in passenger trains, then the Depot and the electrical substations feeding the contact lines are quite stationary targets and God himself ordered to knock them out. Now their air defense has been knocked out and now things will probably go more fun

[Jager]

Come on, the American "comrades" from General Electric are actively helping the Bandar-logs with locomotives. Plus, the "Baltic tigers" and Poland, due to the drop in transportation volumes, have discovered an excess of rolling stock.

[Grancer81]

Is General Electric suitable for the 1520 gauge? In Lithuania, diesel locomotives are adapted for this gauge, but they are not American.

[a vacuum cleaner]

What do they drive? And you haven't thought that all the populated areas are left empty, everything is taken away, and of course the railway infrastructure, and in Donbass (industrial region) there were these locomotives....., as well as special equipment,

[Yuri_I]

Hooray comrades !!!
Greetings !!!!
Yes

[ZovSailor]

As a result of the attack on Kremenchuk, the enemy's locomotive depot was rendered functional

Excellent, Gregory!
It's okay, Konstantin!
Work, brothers.
Victories to our RF Armed Forces in the SVO-KTO, bright memory to those killed, sincere condolences to those who lost loved ones, no one is forgotten - nothing is forgotten!

[Gorynych1]

That's right, enough riding. Time to carry the sled

[dnestr74]

And that was possible? All this is unclear.

[OSE4Kinsura]

Why are they all Soviet? Let them send theirs from Langley. And these need to be returned or destroyed... like monuments to the USSR and Stalin!

[Grancer81]

The photo shows the diesel locomotive ChME-3 produced by Czechoslovakia "Skoda".
On Russian Railways they have long been replaced by TEM18D and DM.

[Jager]

Seriously?) Chmekhs are actively used and repaired, just like dinosaurs like M62 and TE10M. Another question is that they are gradually leaving the scene, and in 404 and to this day both TE3 and VL8 are in use with ChS2.

[Grancer81]

There is not a single chmukh on the West Siberian Railway...

[Comrade Beria]

New details of today's attack on Ukraine.

Foreign mercenaries destroyed by Russian Armed Forces strikes in Odessa region

While European leaders are discussing sending their troops to Ukrainian territory under any pretext, our troops are already attacking foreign mercenaries from France, Great Britain and Romania, writes the Telegram channel "Dnevnik Parasantnika".

Thus, at night in the Odessa region, strikes were carried out on the Ukrainian Armed Forces bases in Tuzla and Lebedivka. As a result, 70 high-ranking foreign mercenaries were destroyed. Among them were officers from France, Romania and Great Britain.

Among those liquidated were specialists responsible for training sabotage groups and coordinating the supply of Western weapons systems.

Moscow has given a clear answer to all proposals regarding "security guarantees" and "peacekeepers".

[the same doctor]

Why are we destroying Russian regions and not Western countries? The same Beskydy tunnel is a hundred times more important than some locomotive depot.

[Paranoid62]

Quote: also a doctor

The same Beskydy tunnel is a hundred times more important than some locomotive depot

Hm. And can you justify this?

[dnestr74]

The most interesting thing is that it is possible to completely eliminate railway communication in Ukraine, but apparently then the population will suffer.

[Jager]

Hitting individual "chmekhs" is good. But ineffective. Taking out computing centers and traffic control centers of the railway 404.
Plus, if you start hunting for locomotives, you need a warhead in the form of a thermite and high-explosive mixture. The objects are not armored and burn well)) The same chmekha in the photo can be restored, albeit not quickly. And a completely burnt one will only go to the scrap yard.

[a vacuum cleaner]

O O O the photo looks like it was taken from an archive,