Ukrainian offensive disrupts Russian railways, causing traffic collapse

Ongoing Ukrainian military operations in the Kursk region are causing major logistical problems for Russia. One of them is the collapse of rail traffic, reports The Moscow Times.

"Russian Railways have faced a transportation collapse in regions bordering Ukraine and Belarus following the invasion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces into the Kursk region," reports The Moscow Times.

"The capture of the city of Sudzha was a significant blow to the Russian railways and the Russian armed forces," reports the portal In Factum.

On Monday, 12 August, Russian Railways sent a telegram to Belarusian Railways about the inability to accept trains at the Orel-Kursk stations of the Moscow Railway division. The next day, 13 August, similar restrictions were introduced for trains going from Belarus to the Smolensk region.

The reason for the decision by Russian Railways was the overcrowding of stations with abandoned trains, as well as the lack of locomotives and conductors. "According to sources, the collapse of traffic was the result of large-scale troop transfers to the Kursk region, including from distant regions, for which almost all available locomotives of the Moscow railway were used," reports The Moscow Times.

The portal In Factum showed on a map the railway lines which, according to Belarusian media, are no longer servicing rail traffic.

Source: The Moscow Times, In Factum