Since the beginning of the war more than 60 freight trains have derailed in Russia

There may be more episodes, as the cases that got into the media are indicated. However, this figure is one and a half times more than in the same period last year, writes The Insider .

According to Russian Railways and inspection bodies, most of the accidents are related to the poor condition of the railway tracks.

However, the authorities cannot ignore the fact that sabotage occurs on the railways. On the first day of the war, February 24, the Ministry of Transport ordered to increase the level of security on the railways in the southern regions. And in April, the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine released a telegram urging the heads of certain sections of the railway in the Rostov region and the Krasnodar Territory to cooperate with the FSB and the police in order to ensure safety on the railway tracks, the newspaper writes.

However, accidents continue to occur, especially in border areas.

On April 12, an explosion occurred in the village of Titovka in the Belgorod region on the border with Ukraine. The railroad track was bent upwards, the rails were rusty, the span of the bridge had fallen down. On April 21, in the same Belgorod region, at the Kreida station, a new accident occurred - a freight train derailed.

The governor of the Kursk region, Roman Starovoit, spoke about the blowing up of another railway bridge on May 1. He called the incident "sabotage", and the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on the attack. And at the end of May, the public “Beware, Moscow” published a message that the FSB was looking for members of a certain “Combat Organization of Anarcho-Communists” who were preparing sabotage on the railway tracks in Sergiev Posad near Moscow. According to investigators, they unscrewed eight nuts, dismantled the rail joint and partially parted the rails that led to military unit 14258 (the secret training and tactical center of the 12th main department of the Ministry of Defense, which is responsible for the country's nuclear security), the newspaper writes.

The Insider notes that they were able to speak with representatives of the Combat Organization of Anarcho-Communists (BOAC). They reported that they had detained trains leading to another military unit - military unit 55443 near Kirzhach (Vladimir region). The arsenal of the Main Missile and Artillery Directorate of the RF Ministry of Defense is located there.

Unfortunately, the sabotage was discovered on the evening of June 25th. Nevertheless, even in this form, the sabotage harmed the enemy, delaying the movement of trains with military equipment and causing economic damage due to the need to restore railway lines, representatives of the cell told The Insider.

According to the anarchists themselves, their activities were largely inspired by the actions of the Belarusian partisans.