🔧 Sabotage

Ukrainian partisan group Atesh reported that its agents executed a sabotage mission against a railway in Smolensk Oblast, blowing up the track leading to the Smolensk Aviation Plant which produces Kh-59 type missiles, drones, components for battlefield aviation, and light aircraft.

Smolensk, Smolensk Oblast
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Atesh agents executed a sabotage mission against a railway in Smolensk Oblast blowing up the track leading to the Smolensk Aviation Plant

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Agents of the Atesh movement blew up railway tracks in Smolensk leading to an aerospace factory that produces Kh-59 missiles for the Russian Ministry of Defense

Kyiv Independent → Source tone: uncertain

Comrades from the Organization of Ukrainians at the factory confirmed that missile logistics have been disrupted

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Extracted: 2026-02-24T00:13:44.309Z

Source story: russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-september-21-2025