Kyiv’s saboteurs strike deep in enemy territory, with Russian media reporting that authorities are investigating it as a terror attack.

Ukraine’s security service blew up a railway connection linking Russia to China, in a clandestine strike carried out deep into enemy territory, with pro-Kremlin media reporting that investigators have opened a criminal case into a “terrorist attack.”

The SBU set off several explosions inside the Severomuysky tunnel of the Baikal-Amur highway in Buryatia, located some 6,000 kilometers east of Ukraine, a senior Ukrainian official with direct knowledge of the operation told POLITICO.

“This is the only serious railway connection between the Russian Federation and China. And currently, this route, which Russia uses, including for military supplies, is paralyzed,” the official said.

Four explosive devices went off while a cargo train was moving inside the tunnel. “Now the (Russian) Federal Security Service is working on the spot, the railway workers are unsuccessfully trying to minimize the consequences of the SBU special operation,” the Ukrainian official added.

Ukraine’s security service has not publicly confirmed the attack. Russia has also so far not confirmed the sabotage.

  • BarqsHasBiteEnglish
    24•7 months ago

    I wonder how many Ukrainians can only speak Russian. Languages can be hard for some people.

    • @0ops@lemm.eeEnglish
      12•7 months ago

      I thought I heard that zelensky himself only knew Russian until relatively recently

      • @Uncle_Bagel@midwest.socialEnglish
        13•7 months ago

        They are incredibly similar languages that are more mutually intelligible, similar to Swedish/Norwegian/Danish or Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian.

        • ladEnglish
          3•7 months ago

          I heard it’s more like Spanish/Portuguese which share some similarities but not mutually intelligible

    • @Kraivo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10•7 months ago

      Mostly all. It’s because USSR only used russian as country’s language so every nation in the country was forced to learn this language and there were many nations in ussr.

      • @rottingleaf@lemmy.zipEnglish
        3•7 months ago

        Not true, there were plenty of native Ukrainian speakers and those knowing it well, also with, eh, changing prestige of the language more people learn it, it’s very close after all, like Scots to English.