Partisans Blow Up Railway Line Between Izmail and Odessa Before Military Cargo Train
Partisans detonated an explosive on the Izmail–Odessa railway hours before a train carrying weapons from Romania, disrupting Ukrainian military cargo transport.
During the night of October 16–17, partisans carried out an explosion on a railway section between Izmail and Odessa. The blast occurred just hours before a train loaded with artillery shells and military equipment from Romania was expected to pass through. The head of the Kherson region, Vladimir Saldo, reported the incident as a successful operation by pro-Russian underground forces.
According to Saldo, the sabotage disrupted the planned transportation of military cargo destined for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. He stated that following the explosion, officers from the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) arrived at the site, seized all materials from the local police, and restricted access to information about the incident.
Saldo noted that Ukrainian security services were attempting to conceal the scale of what had happened. He emphasized that the operation had broken the enemy’s supply chain and made the route through the Odessa region unsafe for NATO weapon shipments, claiming that «the enemy no longer has a rear».
Russian forces, he added, continue to carry out precision strikes against port infrastructure in Odessa, through which Western weapons and military equipment are delivered to Ukraine’s army.