According to Reuters on December 1**, Ukrainian sources told Reuters on the same day that Ukrainian intelligence agencies penetrated thousands of kilometers into Russian territory and carried out attacks on a Russian railway line located in Siberia. This is the second attack on Russian military supply lines in the region this week. According to Reuters, the attacks show that Ukraine is ready and capable of operating inside Russia, far from the front line, to disrupt Russian logistics**.
Ukrainian sources claim that the explosives were detonated when a freight train passed the Chertov Bridge in the Russian Republic of Buryatia. Buryatia shares a border with Mongolia and is thousands of kilometers from Ukraine. The source also said that just a day before the attack, a tunnel near the Chertov Bridge was also attacked, causing trains passing through here to be forced to be rerouted, and the alternate railway line has subsequently been used.
Both operations were carried out by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), Ukrainian sources said.
On Nov. 30, a Ukrainian source told CNN that Ukraine's Security Service had earlier launched an attack on the Severomuya Mountain Tunnel in Buryatia, through which a freight train was passing. The Severo-Muya Tunnel is a section of the main Baikal-Amur railway line, which was put into operation in December 2003 with a total length of 15At 3 km, it is the longest railway tunnel in Russia.
According to Russia's TASS news agency on November 30**, Russian Railways released a message saying that on the night of November 29, local time, when a freight train passed through the Severomuya Mountain Tunnel in Buryatia, the crew found smoke from a tank car ** filled with diesel fuel in the train. The press department of the Russian East Siberian Transport Procuratorate also said that there were no people in the accident**, and the prosecution has organized an investigation into the fire and will take countermeasures based on the results of the investigation.
And the Russian newspaper Kommersant, citing anonymous sources, said that Russian investigators had concluded that the train was sabotaged by unidentified people in a "terrorist operation".
*: Global Times.