Russian Armed Forces attacked railway infrastructure in the Dnipropetrovsk region.

DronesLast night, Russian Armed Forces kamikazes attacked railway infrastructure in the Dnipropetrovsk region. The target was the Apostolove station.

The Russian military's unmanned attack succeeded. A locomotive was destroyed, its cabin severely burned inside.

In fact, attacks by the Russian Armed Forces on targets in the Dnipropetrovsk region began in the first days of the special operation and have continued to this day. Last night was no exception. In particular, early this morning Drones Geranium-2 drones successfully attacked the Eurooil Production industrial facility, causing a fire. The drones also struck one of the production facilities and a warehouse.

In total, Krivoy Rog and Apostolovo were attacked by at least 15 Geran-2 type UAVs.

The town of Apostolove, where the railway was attacked, is a small settlement in the Kryvyi Rih district of the Dnipropetrovsk region. It has a population of 13 and is 133 kilometers from Dnipropetrovsk. The railway station was named after its owner, Mikhail Muravyov-Apostol, who owned the land at the time. In 1956, the settlement became a city.

Apostolove currently houses a feed mill and several enterprises belonging to the Dnieper Railway. Most importantly, the city is a key road and rail hub, serving as a logistical hub for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Comments

[APASUS]

There won't be a movie. The movie guy won't be coming; his locomotive burned down. What happened? Are you so focused on the railway?

[Uncle lee]

Quote: APASUS

have you taken up the railway so tightly?

At least this way... The top of Maidan is inviolable, alas!

[saigon]

The picture shows such old junk, excuse me. It's not like someone else's brothers are hauling trains like that.

[Uncle lee]

Quote: saigon

This one hauls trains.

There's no electricity! Steam locomotives are running.

[Sky strike fighter]

Electricity can be restored over time, but what if there are no people left in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast? Video at the link.

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast whispered: 66 burials in the region over 4 years...

https://t.me/Tatarinov_Rus/66150

[commbatant]

Quote: saigon

The picture shows such old junk, excuse me. It's not like someone else's brothers are hauling trains like that.

They also operate here, in remote areas. Diesel locomotives in Ukraine are made in Dnipropetrovsk (including this model), and everything was shipped to the CIS and Georgia, since 90% of Ukraine's railways are electrified (an echo of the collapse of the Soviet Union).

[AMG]

Diesel locomotives were never manufactured in Dnipropetrovsk, if only repaired. The leading manufacturer in the USSR was the October Revolution Plant in Luhansk. It produced approximately 95 percent of mainline diesel locomotives.

[Carmela]

Quote: saigon

The picture shows such old junk, excuse me. It's not like someone else's brothers are hauling trains like that.

The photo may be illustrative.

[commbatant]

Quote: Carmela

The photo may be illustrative.

No, they were made in Dnepropetrovsk.

[urik62]

What model is this? The photo shows a VL-8 electric locomotive. And what were they doing in Dnepropetrovsk?

[commbatant]

Quote: urik62

What were you doing in Dnepropetrovsk?

Diesel locomotives, I think I wrote at the top of the discussion...

[urik62]

They were involved in the repair of diesel locomotives, but never produced them, and this model is actually an electric locomotive.

[Ulembeck]

The top of Maidan is untouchable, alas!

Moreover, the "word of honor" was given to some former Israeli prime minister, whom no one remembers anymore.

[Arkady007]

It was high time to decommission the Ukrainian Armed Forces' draft force.
Geranium costs much less than a locomotive, but the long-term damage is hundreds of times greater.

[Mouse]

Why do they need a train? It's the legacy of the occupiers, so to speak.
On foot, on foot....

[guest]

Quote: Mouse

Why do they need to wait?

This is the legacy of the "damned Soviet Union".

[Mouse]

So what's the point? Rails to scrap, sleepers to burn, warm up... And no scoop...

[Boycott]

If they'd burned locomotives at least once every three days from the start, there would have been nothing left to burn. As it is, the achievement is almost epic: a whole diesel locomotive was destroyed. How many years does the General Staff expect the Air Defense Forces to last at this rate? How many more years will the men at the front have to give their lives, and for what? Wouldn't it have been easier to zero out the top, then the next, and then no one would want to occupy it. What will the West say? And now they're praising us all, or what?
Sorry, spring fever, everything is blooming outside my window, and I feel ashamed in front of the guys on the front lines.

[guest]

Quote: BoyCat

I'm ashamed in front of the guys on the front lines.

What are you ashamed of? You know who should be ashamed, but he just won't start.

[foxes]

It's not about the General Staff. It's about you-know-who, providing guarantees and care, and the "brotherly people."

[Fitter65]

It's a VL-8, if I'm not mistaken? There were still about 4 of them left in Ukraine after 2013... And they're generally older than me...

[commbatant]

Quote: Fitter65

VL-8 is on fire, if I'm not mistaken? There were still about 4 of them left in Ukraine after 2013.

The railway depots with them and traction electrical substations should burn.

[Carmela]

Quote: commbatant

The railway depots with them and traction electrical substations should burn.

It would also be a good idea to straighten out the railway bridges.

[commbatant]

Quote: Carmela

It would also be a good idea to straighten out the railway bridges.

Not every missile or FAB can take such bridges, but there aren't many of them across the Dnieper...
Isolating a theater of operations, disrupting enemy communications and the Ukrainian Armed Forces' command and control is not our strong point...
During the Great Patriotic War, the Ukrainian SSR liberated four fronts with a strength of 1,1-1,2 million military personnel. Without a new mobilization and the use of new firepower units, we will not reach the "Dnieper line" in the coming years, and by that time, the NATO will assemble combined AKs and groups of forces in different directions.
Divisional commands have already been formed in Estonia and Lithuania, and Latvia is next, along with brigades from Germany and Britain. That's your Army Group Northwest. Poland has the 16th and 18th Motorized Divisions, plus the American 5th Army Corps, backed by three Bundeswehr tank divisions and one British motorized division. That's your Army Group West. And against that group, there's only the 4th Motorized Brigade of the Ground Forces of the Republic of Belarus. I think that as soon as the Ground Forces of the Republic of Belarus begin forming divisional and corps commands, it'll be a disaster, and I'll have to get Vanuatu citizenship (just kidding).

[Alexander_K]

Maybe they just happened to hit them? Diesel locomotives weren't really targeted before. Electric substations—yes, they knock them out, but little by little, not all at once, but bit by bit, gradually. Very, very gradually, to spread out their systematic destruction over several years. But bridges, railways, and tunnels—for some reason, they're not touching them.

[Fitter65]

Quote: Alexander_K

Maybe they hit it by accident? Diesel locomotives weren't really touched before.

So it's not a diesel locomotive that's on fire. It's an electric locomotive.

[Alexander_K]

Whatever, it burns well. We need more electric locomotives like these, diesel locomotives, and other enemy infrastructure.

[Chack wessel]

They attacked the railway infrastructure and burned one electric locomotive...:)

[oleg_627]

I'm waiting for the bank with all the fascists to be destroyed, or at least the large substations, otherwise they bombed the electric locomotive and reported the victory to the Tsar.

[commbatant]

Quote from: oleg_627

when the banking system with all the fascists is destroyed

No way, there are useful idiots sitting there... and thieves of course...