MADRID, November 8 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The British Intelligence Service has indicated this Wednesday that acts of sabotage against Russian railways “continue to pose a significant challenge” to Russian authorities, in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine, carried out in February 2022.
Therefore, they stated that “an investigation by independent Russian media Mediazona showed that 76 cases of train sabotage had been brought to court as of October 2023”, with cases filed against 137 people, “the vast majority of them under 24 years old”.
“Since the beginning of 2023, posters have been printed in key areas of the railway infrastructure indicating that, according to the Russian Criminal Code, sabotage is punishable by up to life imprisonment,” they highlighted, according to a statement published by the British Ministry of Defense via its account on the social network X which was formerly called Twitter.
In this regard, they emphasized that Russian military logistics “continue to depend on 33,000 kilometers of railway lines” and added that “as all forms of public dissent have been banned, sabotage continues to involve a minority of youth as irresponsible parties. method of protest against ‘special military operations'”.
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