Ukrainian Partisans Sabotage Key Railway Supplying Russian Forces on Pokrovsk Front

The ATESH partisan movement has claimed responsibility for a series of successful sabotage operations on the railway infrastructure in occupied Luhansk, aimed at severing the primary supply line for Russian forces on the Pokrovsk front.

In a statement released on March 3, the movement confirmed that its agents disabled two critical relay cabinets in different sectors of the city. The destruction of these technical units has triggered a systemic failure in the railway's automated traffic control.

“The strike was leveled at the occupiers' main supply artery,” ATESH stated. “This line connects Russia with Luhansk, running through Debaltseve and Popasna toward the Pokrovsk direction. It is effectively the only stable route for delivering troops, ammunition, fuel, and equipment from the Russian Federation to the front lines.”

According to the partisans, the sabotage has brought rail movement to a standstill. Russian military authorities have been forced to revert to manual train management, a process that limits the number of echelons that can pass through the hub.

The partisan movement emphasized that the immediate result of the operation is the disruption of fuel and ammunition deliveries to the Pokrovsk grouping. They noted that alternative logistics routes are already “overloaded and unable to cope with the necessary volumes.”

This latest disruption in Luhansk follows a similar operation carried out by ATESH in the Belgorod region earlier this year. On January 21—coinciding with the Day of Engineering Troops of the Russian Armed Forces—the movement targeted a railway section near the settlement of Razumne.

That operation also involved the sabotage of a relay cabinet, which temporarily neutralized a critical transport artery servicing the "Northern" grouping of Russian forces. The interference with the automated systems caused significant logistical delays for convoys transporting ammunition and fuel.

“The interference with the automation system caused serious delays in train movement. The convoys carrying ammunition could not arrive at their destination on time, leading to a temporary disruption of supplies and a shortage of ammunition at the frontline positions,” ATESH stated regarding the Belgorod operation.

Earlier, ATESH has successfully sabotaged a vital electrical substation in Russia’s Bryansk region. The operation targeted the Volodarsky industrial zone, causing a significant power failure that has paralyzed key military logistics and industrial facilities.

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