Russian Geraniums continue to hunt Ukrainian locomotives.

Russia continues to attack Ukraine's railway infrastructure, primarily disabling rolling stock. The night from Monday to Tuesday, May 12, was no exception.

Russian dronesGeranium-class kamikazes visited the Dnipropetrovsk region at night, attacking a shunting locomotive and a train at a station. As a result of the Geraniums' nighttime attack, the locomotive sustained serious damage and a fire broke out, which had to be extinguished by the arriving fire crews.

According to Ukraine's Minister for Reconstruction and Development, Oleksiy Kuleba, the strike damaged not only the locomotive but also the rolling stock, halting train service, which is being quickly restored.

The drone strikes damaged locomotives and rolling stock. Train service in the region is being quickly restored. Railroad workers continue to operate, maintaining connections to Dnipropetrovsk (originally, Dnepr) and other regions of the country.

As Ukrainian media previously reported, Russian Geran trains have been operating quite actively in Left-Bank Ukraine recently, primarily knocking out locomotives. Ukrainians have already switched from electric to diesel locomotives on some sections, but there aren't many of them. And given that the Geran trains are attacked at every opportunity, they won't last long.

Comments

[tralflot1832]

And on the right side, this is what the locomotive looks like in the photo. On the left, just paint it, and in the driver's cabin, transfer all the controls to levers, crowbars, screwdrivers, wires and ropes, and off you go. Like new.

[78bor1973]

Well, it only seems that way. The ChME-3 won't run on wires and strings; the cabin, battery compartment, and air conditioning system burned out. It can be repaired in a depot, but it depends on a lot of things: spare parts, specialists, etc. And considering there's more than one of these, it will take a very long time to restore it.

[Deaf]

It's such a shame. My heart bleeds. But Fedya... I need it.
P.S. My grandfather was a railroad worker. Both a train driver and a trackman. He even got to blow the whistle and throw coal into the furnace on some equally historic jobs. They didn't allow him to do more.

[saigon]

I wonder if their TM traction machine pulls trains on stretches? And if they hooked up a team, that would be really nice.

[Alexey Lantukh]

You need to hit the diesel tank. A good fire will make everything even better.

[Lako]

Unless this is an illustration, the damage is pretty bad. Gerani, as far as I understand, had 50 kg of explosives. And looking at this locomotive, it looks like it didn't take a direct hit.

[pyagomail.com]

mainly knocking out locomotives.

This is probably also necessary, but if flight missions have been entered into our missiles, then maybe we should still fire on Kyiv?

[Reptiloid]

Quote: pyagomail.ru

mainly knocking out locomotives.

......to bomb Kyiv?

I can't wait. It's high time to decommunize and leave the area empty for years without building anything. How do you do it if there's toxic waste in the ground?

[Mouse]

I'll be banal...
The wolf hunt is on, the hunt is on...

[MetalDesign]

And taking out bridges is strictly taboo.

[OSE4Kinsura]

One bridge can stop all logistics, even if there are a hundred locomotives there! But apparently they are dual-purpose...

[Roman 11]

Quote: MetalDesign

And take out the bridges

Probably because of the price tags... they're more expensive than roads and buildings—we're in the midst of capitalist wars, after all, and rebuilding them would cost a fortune, but where are we going to pay pensioners, doctors, and teachers? We can't just milk Gazprom and Rosneft forever.

[Uran53]

Yes, there's money here. And the Ministry of Defense is pretending to be in full swing. Bridges are up, weapons are being supplied, communications, internet, everything is there. This is impossible, we're not like that. We'd rather be chasing the locomotive.

[polynet]

Quote: MetalDesign

And taking out bridges is strictly taboo.

they will be useful to us

[yu ging]

目前我方主要有两个劣势：一是在前线近后方30-100km越来越多的Hor net无人机，具有飞行几乎静音、难以被电子战压制（我方技术人员已经在分析在哪些频率区间可以干扰信号传输，并取得了一定成果）、最后阶段可自动锁定目标等特点，但最重要的一点是——比同类无人机便宜的多，所以可以用来打击那些更加“廉价”的目标，如一般的军事车辆以及二是能飞到乌拉尔山脉的重型星链无人机，这就不用多说了，乌斯季卢加、图阿普谢、彼尔姆的说要花多久才能制订并实现反制这些无人机的系统化的手段，同时使我方无人机技术也提升到敌人的水平，但是必须赶紧开始——否则，后果不堪设想。我之前看到我方有一个叫ZALA的公司也在研究人工智能无人机以及巡飞弹，也许这些人有些办法。
Regarding unmanned aerial vehicles, we currently face two main challenges. The first is the increasingly visible presence of Hornet-type drones operating in the immediate rear of the front lines, specifically at ranges of 30 to 100 kilometers. These drones possess a number of distinctive features: they fly virtually silently; they are difficult to suppress with electronic warfare systems (although our technical specialists are already analyzing the specific frequency ranges necessary for jamming their signals and have already achieved some preliminary results); and, in the final stages of an attack, they are capable of automatically locking on to a target. Most importantly, however, they are significantly cheaper than similar drone models. This cost-effectiveness allows them to be used against "lower-priority" targets, such as conventional military equipment and mobile air defense systems. The second challenge is drones with large payloads, equipped with the Starlink system and capable of reaching the Ural Mountains; There's no need to explain anything here, as the memories of the strikes on Ust-Luga, Tuapse, and Perm are still too fresh. It's difficult to predict how long it will take to develop and implement a comprehensive countermeasure system for these drones—while simultaneously raising the level of our own drone technology to the level of the enemy's capabilities—but action is essential; otherwise, the consequences could be catastrophic. I recall that the Russian company ZALA is also conducting research into AI-powered drones and loitering munitions; perhaps they will have some ready-made solutions.

[Roman 11]

We need to pay attention not only to locomotive transport, railway networks, electric locomotives, and diesel locomotives. First and foremost, we need to consider all gas stations, fuel stations, fuel points, and fuel depots, including mobile ones, within 500-600 km of the LBS.

[Smoked]

Hmm, what if they start hunting like that? We apparently have everything planned for that.

[Nastia makarova]

It's strange that they haven't done this before.

[Smoked]

It's strange that people generally don't think about things that can or already are mutual. But applause in the comments is welcome.

[igorra]

The bridges across the Dnieper are functioning. The Guarantor spares the civilian population on our side of the river, but doesn't spare our own troops. Along with the civilian cargo needed to supply the population, military equipment is being brought in. Instead of bridges and tunnels in western Ukraine, we're destroying rolling stock. The question is: why are we preserving the bridges? The Banderites will blow them up anyway when they retreat? What a strange war, especially from our government. The European descendants of fascists and Nazis are roaming Kyiv as if they were at home, a German brigade is in the Baltics, and the Finns want Karelia again. Did I forget anything? Oh, and our government has the stamina of a million people and warehouses full of red pencils. To paraphrase Lenin, so hated by the Guarantor: the lower classes are willing and able, but the upper classes are unwilling and unable.

[expert]

Ukrzaliznytsia operates approximately 2000 diesel locomotives, but the number of actually operating locomotives is significantly lower due to high fleet depreciation. According to statistics, the total locomotive fleet is distributed as follows:
Mainline diesel locomotives: about 720–750 units.
Shunting locomotives: about 1250 units.
Key facts about the park's condition:
Operational readiness:
According to experts, only about 100–120 mainline diesel locomotives may be in active use for freight transport.
Wear and tear: More than 40% of locomotives are considered faulty or critically worn. The vast majority of these were manufactured before 1992 at the Luganskteplovoz plant.

[Fisher]

Wouldn't it be simpler to just demolish the bridge? I'm not talking about the Dnieper bridges—they're cursed—I'm talking about a modest bridge on some main thoroughfare. The choice of priorities, from the couch, doesn't seem obvious.

[Serafim]

How much money does a soldier get for destroying an enemy locomotive?

[isv000]

Quote from Serafim

How much money does a soldier get for destroying an enemy locomotive?

One amananga... May our guys forgive me! Not in their garden, a little higher...

[isv000]

As Ukrainian sources previously reported, Russian Geraniums have recently been very active in Left-Bank Ukraine, primarily knocking out locomotives.

Tell Pistorius about this and all the other crap that he's sucking coke in the compartment while he's comfortably getting to Kukuyev.

[Alexander Rasmukhambetov]

We need to hit the bridges, tunnels and ships, then there will be nothing to transport.

[helilelik]

How do they get there without Starlink?