🔧 Sabotage

Ukrainian partisans from the Special Operations Forces blew up a Russian train in Melitopol, damaging 150 metres of railway track and a locomotive carrying ammunition and fuel to Russian forces.

Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia
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Ukrainska Pravda → Source tone: certain

A unit of the Resistance Movement of the Special Operations Forces carried out a successful sabotage operation in Melitopol on 13 October, blowing up a railway line at 07:30 and damaging a train delivering ammunition and fuel to the Russian army.

Ukrainska Pravda → Source tone: certain

The explosion damaged 150 metres of railway track and a locomotive.

Ukrainska Pravda → Source tone: certain

This was the tenth successful railway sabotage by partisans in Zaporizhzhia Oblast in 2023.

Kyiv Independent → Source tone: certain

The Russian-occupied ZNPP intends to transition a second reactor (reactor 5) into hot shutdown

Kyiv Independent → Source tone: certain

Authorities at the plant informed the IAEA they were beginning to move reactor 5 from cold to hot shutdown in order to provide warm water and heating for Enerhodar ahead of the winter season

Kyiv Post → Source tone: certain

Ukrainian partisans in Russian-occupied Melitopol blew up a Russian train at 7:40 a.m.

Kyiv Post → Source tone: certain

The train transported ammunition and fuel daily from Crimea to Melitopol and Dniprorudne.

Kyiv Post → Source tone: certain

The explosion damaged 150 meters of railroad and a diesel locomotive.

Kyiv Post → Source tone: likely

This was the tenth successful railroad sabotage in 2023 by partisans in the Zaporizhzhia region.

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Extracted: 2026-05-30T04:21:22.061Z

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