Massive explosion as Ukrainian kamikaze drones blast Russian freight train blocking Putin’s key missile supply line

UKRAINIAN kamikaze drones blasted a Russian freight train sparking a massive explosion and blocking a key missile supply line.

Dramatic footage shows a huge fire on the railway line at Kotluban station near Volgograd, after dozens of wagons were derailed.

The train was derailed in the Volgograd region

A massive fire was sparked on the railway line after the drone strike

The cargo train was carrying diesel, timber and scrap metal.

The line is close to an arsenal of the Main Missile and Artillery Directorate of the Ministry of Defence, near the village of Kotluban, say reports.

A witness in a train passing on an undamaged line said: “Everything is mangled.”

He saw an exploded oil wagon and badly burned timber. 

“Firefighters are here – one carriage is all torn up, lying across the tracks,” he said.

Officially the train crashed because of “interference by outsiders in the operation of railway transport.”

But BAZA media outlet  – and others – reported an attack by drones.

One local source said: “The train was apparently in motion, since the wagons were scattered.”

Russian sources said the fire had been extinguished and one track reopened. 

Kyiv has admitted previously carrying  out sabotage attacks on Russia’s railway system to disrupt military logistics, including far from the front lines in the nearly 27-month-old war.

Ukraine says that targeting Russia’s military, transport and energy infrastructure undermines Moscow’s war effort and is an answer to the countless deadly attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure by Putin’s forces.

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