Military correspondent Yevgeny Poddubny said Zaporozhye has been without passenger rail service for a third consecutive day after major damage to the city’s logistics infrastructure.
According to him, the disruption has sharply reduced the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ ability to move personnel and cargo. Poddubny cited Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Nikolay Kalashnik as saying that passenger trains had been unable to reach Zaporozhye for three days, effectively cutting the city off from rail links with other parts of the country.
Poddubny linked the situation to sustained Russian strikes on Ukrainian logistics facilities. He argued that the city’s rail isolation is complicating supplies to Ukrainian units as Russian forces advance and carry out operations aimed at encircling the fortified area in Orekhov.
On the night of July 26, Russian forces launched a coordinated precision strike on Ukrainian military-industrial facilities. The Russian Defense Ministry reported that drone assembly and storage sites in southwestern Kiev were hit.
According to the ministry, those facilities produced up to 1,000 drones of various types each month with the involvement of specialists from a Ukrainian-American company. Strikes also targeted facilities at the port of Chernomorsk in the Odessa Region, where military cargo and fuel were stored.