This is the moment a Russian "military cargo train" blew up in a Ukrainian Intelligence sabotage mission just miles from the Kremlin. Footage shows the moment the train was blown up some 60 miles southeast of the Kremlin. Ukrainian military intelligence has claimed responsibility for the attack which saw a mushroom cloud explosion at the Voskresensk rail depot. A video highlighting the blast was seemingly carried out by the sabotage team.
Ukraine’s GUR military intelligence agency confirmed the explosion destroyed carriages on the freight train, and says the train had been used to shift logistical items for the Russian military. They said: "There was an explosion that destroyed the carriages of a freight train at the Voskresensk railway station, Moscow region. The aggressor state used them [the freight wagons] to provide logistics for the Russian occupation army [in Ukraine].".
The explosion follows on a series of attacks on Russian personnel. Earlier this month, Lt-Gen Igor Kirillov, 54, Putin’s top nuclear defences general, was killed in a bomb attack by Ukraine. Lt-Gen Kirillov was killed after emerging from his home in Moscow. Earlier this month, on December 20, an AN-72 military transport plane exploded at Ostafyevo airfield in the Moscow region.
This was preceded by a trio of attacks on locomotives across Russian cities. On December 15, a railway track exploded in the Russian city of Ulyanovsk, on December 13 a fire in Krasnodar put three locomotives out of service and on December 11, two mainline diesel locomotives burned in Bryansk.
