An explosion on the Russian-held Crimean peninsula nine years ago reportedly derailed a train and disrupted the region’s main rail line as Ukrainian and Tatar resistance forces continue their offensive.

As reported on Thursday morning by the illegal leadership of the Crimea, set by the Russians, the railway connection between the Crimean capital Simferopol and neighboring Sevastopol was interrupted.

Oleg Kryuchkov, adviser to the local Russophile commander cited information from the so-called Ministry of Transport of Crimea, which states that “V the movement of electric trains on the Simferoupolis-Sevastopol section was temporarily suspended. Passengers will be transported to these stations by buses. The resumption of traffic will be announced later.»in a message on the Telegram website.

Information from Russia spoke of an explosion on the railway track. The corresponding link is made by the Baza channel on Telegram is a channel with good information from the Russian special services.

The Crimean Railway Service stated that the derailment of the train occurred due to “the interference of unauthorized persons in the work of railway transport.”

Local Russian commander Sergei Aksyonov declined to comment on the blast, saying the grain train had derailed and no one was injured.

According to the Russian state agency RIA, on Thursday at 7:45 a.m. near Simferopol, five carriages of the Pokhtovoye-Chistenkoe commercial train derailed. Nothing is said about the causes of the crash, except that the cause is being investigated.

Since the takeover and annexation of Crimea in 2014, Ukrainian and Tatar resistance groups, labeled terrorists by Moscow, have become increasingly active in the region.

The annexation of Crimea was not internationally recognized and triggered the first wave of international sanctions against Russia in years before the invasion of the rest of Ukraine in February 2022.

Source: Reuters, RIA Novosti, TASS