Footage of strikes on enemy transport and energy infrastructure has been released.

Recently, strikes against targets in the Chernihiv region have significantly intensified. Russian armed forces are using various types of UAVs to "take out" enemy railway infrastructure, as well as rolling stock used for military purposes.

Footage has emerged of the aftermath of a Geranium airstrike west of Nizhyn. An enemy troop train was attacked there. The strike significantly damaged an electric locomotive and disrupted the integrity of the rail track (main photo).

These strikes disrupted enemy military traffic along the railway from Kyiv to Nizhyn and back.

In addition to railway targets, attacks are also targeting enemy fuel and energy infrastructure, as well as Ukrainian Armed Forces motor fuel transportation facilities. For example, near Semyonovka, an enemy fuel tanker delivering fuel to one of the units deployed in the northern Chernihiv region was destroyed.

A major fire at an energy facility was reported in the morning hours in the Pryluky district, also in the Chernihiv region.

A significant number of Geranium missiles attacked targets near Putivl in the Sumy region. There are also fires there. According to the latest reports, these are tankers containing gasoline and diesel fuel.

Over the course of the week, the Russian Armed Forces struck enemy transport and energy infrastructure facilities in the Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Odessa, Poltava, Lviv, and Kyiv regions in addition to the aforementioned regions.

Comments

[Revolver]

Damaged rails mean a couple of hours' work for the repair crew. An electric locomotive, however, is more serious; they can't easily get new ones, and a burned-out one isn't something they can fix right away.

[rocket757]

Burned-out equipment... it's often impossible to repair it...
The railway track... also has complex sections, the repair of which takes a lot of time.

[Jrvin]

Do you work on the railway? I'll tell you, throwing a whip or two to a team of experienced track workers will take no more than two hours. The photo in the article shows a green light shining in the distance, indicating that the track ahead is completely undamaged, plus the ALSN is working. Blowing up the track is a waste of time; it's easily repaired, just like the brainless ones who set fire to relay cabinets. Trains continue to run there, only at a reduced speed. But good news for everyone: relay cabinets are gradually being phased out, and new systems operate without them.

[rocket757]

I specifically wrote DIFFICULT SECTIONS... an embankment, two rails and sleepers can hardly be classified as such.

[your vsr 66-67]

Quote: Nagan

Damaged rails mean a couple of hours' work for the repair crew. An electric locomotive, however, is more serious; they can't easily get new ones, and a burned-out one isn't something they can fix right away.

If this damage is what is in the photo, it really will take a couple of hours of work!

[Roman Efremov]

But an arrow is a more serious matter. Generally, quantity turns into quality here – if you take out 1000 arrows in one night, no crew would be enough.

[barbos]

Relay cabinets are usually located near the switches, which may be unique to some station necks. However, switch repairs can sometimes be a separate and distinct undertaking.

[Jrvin]

What kind of hell is this at the switch? It's not a highway where 90 pairs of trains run daily. The flow is minimal, which means a guy with a trolley will direct your train to where you want it.

[barbos]

A man with a kurbele will drive your train to where you want)

The rotary handle is a switch drive, which is part of the ShCh diocese. It has an electric motor, a gearbox, a clutch, and nothing bulky or heavy.
A turnout switch is bulky (a 1/9 switch for a R50 rail is 12 meters long), heavy (a 1/9 switch for a R50 rail weighs 11 tons), varies in angle and rail grade, and is in much smaller stockpiles than a turnout machine. A very good question: are turnouts even produced in Ukraine, or are they stockpiled from Soviet times? A similar question applies to the BMRC.

[P]

There aren't an infinite number of brigades, the first strike point isn't going anywhere, which means there's plenty of time to hit the same spot

[Roman Efremov]

Having a large quantity of destructive weapons, we can repeat the operation the next day at all the points affected the day before - and where the teams will work is not our business.

[solar]

According to Wikipedia, it's in Ukraine

Rolling stock: 57,700 freight cars[5], 3883 passenger cars[6], 63 branded passenger trains, 720 mainline diesel locomotives, 1256 shunting diesel locomotives[7], 1720 mainline electric locomotives, 1693 sections of electric trains and diesel trains.

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Украинская_железная_дорога

[Volodin]

Quote from solar

According to Wikipedia, it's in Ukraine

And 42 million population...

[solar]

If there's any other credible data on the train stock, it would be interesting to see. Even if the traction stock is half as large as Wikipedia claims, the question arises: how much would need to be removed to have a significant impact on military transport, which is, of course, the primary purpose of the train stock?

[Nyrobsky]

Quote from solar

If there's any other credible data on the train stock, it would be interesting to see. Even if the traction stock is half as large as Wikipedia claims, the question arises: how much would need to be removed to have a significant impact on military transport, which is, of course, the primary purpose of the train stock?

It depends on how you look at it. Creating a transportation problem all at once is problematic, but a gradual one is entirely feasible. If the power were cut, not even everywhere, but in central and eastern Ukraine, 1720 mainline electric locomotives would sit peacefully idle in dead ends and on sidings, or grazing on the tracks of western Ukraine.
That leaves 720 diesel locomotives, of which 1/3 (or 1/4) are in depot maintenance, according to regulations and depending on repairs. That leaves 480 (or 540) for all purposes, including passenger service, which is quite low on a national scale, especially considering that they are priority targets and will be systematically eliminated along with the repair depots.
Of course, there is a fleet of steam locomotives in storage, but they are more decorative than practical, as the necessary infrastructure for refilling coal and water into the tender, which used to be located at each station, is no longer available along the route.

[Jrvin]

Well, look, electric locomotives are categorized by the type of current they use (DC or AC), so they're not interchangeable, which is a plus for us. Diesel shunting locomotives don't count; you can't haul much on them. So, all that's left is diesel locomotives. There's no need to retire any traction rolling stock; we need to retire repair depots. They won't run for long without repairs, because major repairs are only done at depots; replacing a diesel, for example, isn't that easy.

[solar]

Well, look, electric locomotives are divided by the type of current (DC, AC), therefore they are not interchangeable, which is already a plus for us.

There are also dual-system ones, which are interchangeable. And how many of them are one-, two-, and three-system, we don't know.

Shunting locomotives don't count; you can't carry much on them.

If there's no stamped paper, they write on a regular one. They tied the pair together and sent it off.

All that remains is to knock out the diesel locomotives.

Easier said than done. Same with the depot. Not to mention that they'll be sent to Poland for repairs, for example. Or to Hungary or Slovakia.
Not to mention that military transport requires incomparably less than civilian transport, and it's impossible to completely deplete the rolling stock; the remaining ones will be used for military transport. Well, they won't be able to travel by train to resorts or abroad in Ukraine; they'll be forced to use buses. What difference will this make? And transportation, too—modern trailers and semi-trailers can largely replace freight cars.

[Jrvin]

You can count two electric system locomotives on one hand, so you can't even count them. It's not so simple with diesel locomotives. You can't couple shunting locomotives and move a large train, due to automatic brake control (to put it bluntly, no matter how many diesel locomotives you have, you'll only have one compressor, so you won't be able to pump a large train). How can you even send them to Poland? The gauge there is 1435 mm, while ours is 1520 mm. Also, what can the Poles repair if the factory that made the diesel locomotives is in Luhansk? The nearest diesel locomotive repair factory is in Daugavpils, but how will you get diesel locomotives there? Diesel locomotives are very demanding in terms of repairs; they're not like electric locomotives, which are like a simple barn. We'll knock out a repair shop, and after a while they'll fall apart on their own. If they'd started knocking them out at 22, nothing would be running anymore... I know what diesel locomotives are; believe me, I'm a driver myself. I'll tell you more, even with repairs and spare parts they fall apart, so what can we say if there are none)))

[123_123]

Currently, a significant portion of Ukraine's electricity supply comes from nuclear power plants. Therefore, it makes sense to destroy their step-down transformers. 750/330 are large, stationary, and convenient targets. Achievable, effective, necessary, and safe.

[solar]

Not very safe. Could lead to a nuclear power plant shutdown with unpredictable consequences.

[123_123]

An automatic emergency shutdown of a nuclear power plant (or power generation) is completely safe. However, if the power line from the nuclear power plant to the distribution network is damaged, even this won't happen automatically.

[solar]

An emergency is always unsafe, by definition. Nuclear power plants are characterized by the fact that the reactor contains hot fuel rods that cool very slowly. While the unit is operating, they are cooled by the coolant, turning into steam that feeds the turbine. If the external power supply to the generator is disconnected, steam extraction drops sharply (otherwise the turbine will run away), and the unit's cooling is consequently disrupted almost instantly. This can lead to a core meltdown, releasing radiation—which is what happened in Japan.

[123_123]

The "generator connection" is not disconnected when the step-down transformers are destroyed. Cooling continues to operate, external power is not lost, and the lines are intact. Plus, there are independent generators for backup. Everything is as usual. Note that the Zaporizhzhia NPP even periodically loses external power due to air strikes, but everything is safe. Here, we are talking about a safer approach: there will be no power leakage from the NPP into the grid.

[solar]

Disconnection of the "generator connection" does not occur when step-down transformers are destroyed.

Where do you think the energy generated by the power units should go?

Note that the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant is even periodically deprived of external power supply

The Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant is not operating, but even so, such outages are a big problem, and all the alarm bells are ringing.
At Chernobyl, they once tried to simulate an emergency shutdown of a functioning unit. It didn't work out well.

[Vladimir-78]

I'm not familiar with railway matters. But tell me this: Why target an electric locomotive when there are things like train stations and junctions where trains and trains are formed, cars are lowered downhill, and other "role-playing games"? Am I missing something?

[snow mountain]

Why aim at an electric locomotive if there are such things as train stations and junction stations where trains and trains are formed?

I thought about it too

[barbos]

Why aim at an electric locomotive when there are things like train stations and junctions where trains and trains are formed, cars are rolled downhill, and other "role-playing" activities exist? Am I missing something?

I. G. Starinov answered this very well in his memoirs.

[Jrvin]

You can form trains at any station, but pushing cars by hand isn't so easy))) That's the gist of it.

[Pokrovskij1959]

If there's no political will to destroy Ukraine's energy sector, they could at least shoot at high-voltage power lines as part of a sparrow shooting sparrows. It would be more beneficial. It's really just a couple of hours' work. We don't need news like this; it's truly infuriating.