SSU and Defense Forces destroy enemy train in Zaporizzhia region

SU and Defense Forces destroy Russian train in Zaporizhzhia - what are the consequences?
Destruction of a Russian train in Zaporizhzhia region. Photo: screenshot

The Security Service of Ukraine and the Defense Forces destroyed a Russian train in Zaporizhzhia region. The enemy lost 40 tanks of fuel worth four million dollars.

This was reported to Novyny.LIVE by sources in the SSU on Sunday, December 15.

Destruction of a Russian train in Zaporizhzhia region

It is known that on December 14, the Security Service of Ukraine, together with the Tavria Operational and Strategic Grouping of Troops, the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine, the Special Operations Forces, and the Unmanned Systems Forces, conducted a unique special operation. The goal was to cut off the logistics routes for fuel supplies from Crimea to the temporarily occupied territories of Zaporizhzhia region.

First, the 13th Main Directorate of the SSU Department of Military Counterintelligence carried out a sabotage, blowing up the tracks as a train with tanks was passing near the village of Oleksiiivka, Bilmatskyi district.

Колії на Запоріжжі
The tracks. Photo: SSU

When the train stopped and a fire broke out in the tanks, the Tavria OSGT was engaged in the operation. The missile strikes hit the locomotive and the outermost cars to prevent the enemy from taking the tanks and saving some of the fuel.

На Запоріжжі знищили ворожий потяг
The fire after the special operation. Photo: SSU

As a result of the special operation, a locomotive and 40 tank cars were destroyed, and an important railroad line was put out of commission.

As a reminder, Ukrainian Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi demonstrated the effective work of the Defense Forces in destroying Russian equipment and men.

Earlier, fighters of the Third Separate Assault Brigade showed how they destroyed an enemy hideout in the Kharkiv region.

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