An “explosion” occurred on a section of the railway near the city of Nizhny Tagil in the Ural region of Russia, TASS and RBC news agencies reported on Monday with reference to the transport prosecutor’s office.

Russian media often use the term “explosion” as a euphemism for an explosion, Reuters noted.

Telegram channel Baza, one of Russia’s most popular news channels with intelligence sources, reported that the explosion occurred on the railway near the San Donato station, not far from the oil depot.

Last month, a Ukrainian source told Reuters that Ukraine’s domestic intelligence had detonated explosives on a Russian railway deep in Siberia, the second attack in a week on military supply routes in the region.

Russian news agencies reported on Monday that no one was injured and there was no damage as a result of the latest incident.

RBC, with reference to Russian Railways, also wrote that traffic in this area is “restricted”, some trains may run late.

Ukraine announced a railway sabotage in the Far East of Russia

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) carried out two sabotage operations against Russian fuel trains in the Buryat region of Russia’s Far East, a military source in Kyiv said last month, while Russian newspaper Kommersant reported that Russian investigators had determined that the train arson in the longest in Russia, the railway tunnel was the result of a “terrorist act” carried out by unidentified persons.

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The first attack was carried out in the Bessolovsky tunnel in the Republic of Buryatia, where four explosive devices were detonated when a fuel train was passing, then a second sabotage was carried out on an alternative railway, where traffic was diverted after the first sabotage. The arson in the second sabotage was provoked when a gasoline truck “crossed a 35-meter bridge”, it was the Devil’s Bridge. Thus, Kyiv aimed to decommission the specified railway line connecting China and Mongolia, a Ukrainian military source reported.

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Kyiv has claimed numerous attacks on Russian territory since the beginning of the war, which was launched by Russia in February 2022, but it was the first time that Ukrainian special services conducted such operations thousands of kilometers from the front line.

The special services in Kyiv are increasingly turning to such sabotage as tactics of asymmetric warfare with the aim of disrupting the logistical support of the Russian army, while the Ukrainian army’s counteroffensive did not yield results, and now Russian troops have gone on the offensive in separate sections of the front.

In addition to attacks on Russian facilities in the rear, such as ammunition depots, strategic bridges (for example, the sabotage of the Crimean bridge), command centers, air bases or railway lines, attacks were also carried out on occupied Ukrainian territories. Russia and even on Russian territory who killed Russian officials or supporters of the Kremlin, such as the death of a famous Russian military blogger in an explosion in St. Petersburg or the murder of Daria Dugina, the daughter of Alexander Dugin, a Russian nationalist writer close to the Kremlin.

The wife of the head of Ukraine’s military intelligence (GRU) Kyryll Budanov, whom Moscow considers the organizer of some of these sabotages, was poisoned with heavy metals last November, details of which Kyiv did not provide, but blamed Russian special services.

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