Ukrainian officials speaking to media outlets on Friday claimed that the CIA-backed Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) blew up trains on railways deep inside eastern Russia.
An anonymous Ukrainian official told POLITICO that several explosions were set off in Buryatia, a Russian region over 2,500 miles from Ukrainian territory. Russian media and local officials reported fires and explosions on trains in the region but did not say the cause.
The Ukrainian official claimed the sabotage disrupted military supplies being shipped from China, although Beijing has long denied it’s arming Moscow. “This is the only serious railway connection between the Russian Federation and China. And currently, this route, which Russia uses, including for military supplies, is paralyzed,” the official said.
However, Russia’s state railroad company RZHD said in a statement on a reported fire in the region that it did not disrupt service. “The movement of trains was not interrupted, it was organized along a bypass section with a slight increase in travel time,” the statement said.
The Ukrainian official said the operation shows Russia that its operatives can strike anywhere. “Russian special services should get used to the fact that our people are everywhere. Even in distant Buryatia,” the official said.
The claim of the railway attack comes as it’s become clear Ukraine has no chance of beating Russia on the battlefield, and Western support for Kyiv’s war effort appears to be waning.
The SBU and Ukraine’s military intelligence, the GUR, have taken credit for attacks and assassinations inside Russia and Russian-controlled territory in Ukraine throughout the war.
A recent report from The Washington Post detailed how the CIA helped build up the SBU and GUR, including through tens of millions of dollars in funding since 2015. The report said the CIA helped open a new directorate for the GUR and trained new recruits for the purpose of forming groups “capable of operating behind front lines and working as covert groups.”
So when does Russia clean out the U.S. forces in Syria, and provide Iran with S-400 ground to air missiles for the coming attack on Iran by the U.S. and Iran?
There’s never been any evidence that supports the notion, “what goes around comes around.” That has always been and forever proven to be, “Putin Propaganda.”
And what happened last time Russian (Wagner) troops tried to “clean out” US forces in Syria? (Let me know if you require a history lesson.)
Total annihilation of the bully Wagner force (200+ best of the best) within minutes and so they never played with fire again.
Never but they can try and fail just like in Ukraine.
Do you support the illegal occupation of Eastern Syria by the USA? Wouldn’t that seem to contradict your constant bellowing and moaning about Ukrainian territorial losses over the course of the war with Russia?
I don’t support it so I’m not contradicting myself like you guys do here.
That’s why I asked. So you would also condemn the post 911 wars of aggression perpetrated by the USA? You would also agree that if one were to look at body counts the U.S.A. has a way worse human rights record than Russia when it comes to war? Correct? This of course does not excuse Russian crimes, but it does make clear which culture is more barbaric when it comes to civilian casualties. I say this as someone who does not support the Russian war effort, but sees the futility of Ukrainian efforts to recover lost territory.
“The Ukrainian official claimed the sabotage disrupted military supplies being shipped from China, although Beijing has long denied it’s arming Moscow.”
Kiev might be wise to take China at its word. Attacking transport between the Russian Federation and the DPRC risks the possibility of killing Chinese nationals – or, worse – PLA officers or enlisted men (if Kiev is right about a military transfer) and proudly admitting the SBU has done so.
The DPRC seems to have kept an even diplomatic hand in the Russia-Ukraine war so far. If Kiev’s terrorists kill PLA in or outside of DPRC territory, I don’t know that President Xi would try to find an agreeable settlement for Zelenskiyy et. al. or continue to push for a ceasefire.
You’ve got some nerve calling Kiev Terrorists.
But that’s not surprising. It’s the only BS you Putin propagandists can spew here in support for the true terrorists from the Kremlin.
Ignore the full scale invasion and annexation of Ukraine by your emperor over the last two years and call the victim terrorists.
Hypocrite.
Now, Donald, I think we both know that, completely absent any evidence that the rail line between the RF and DPRC was transporting military hardware (aka Legal Wartime Targets), your vaunted Aryans in Kiev have committed a textbook terrorist act in allegedly striking what appears to be strictly civilian infrastructure.
I make no parallel to the Kerch Strait bridge connecting Crimea, however; almost certainly it is a road & rail conduit for military assets and therefore is a legal military target for Kiev’s crumbling misadventure against the RF.
The point is, Donald, it would appear that the DPRC is one of the few, and best, options remaining as a mediator between Kiev and Moscow.
If it were to happen that SBU-Qaeda attacks infrastructure in the RF that happens to kill PLA servicemen…well, in that case even the BEST CASE outcome for P4L Zelenskiyy (a remnant ‘European Union Welfare State of West Ukraine’) could be in doubt.
Do you think Putin gives a f about the non combatant foreign nationals he has killed in Ukraine?
It’s a war and Putin started it. If he doesn’t want his country attacked, he can end it peacefully but he won’t so the war continues in a Tit for Tat.
Let me ask you this, Donald. Drawing us back off your tangent, I hope.
It is a question to balance your…pro-Western biases…(if I may put lipstick on it) against your One True Anti-War exclusive position :
Would you accept an immediate, peaceful, stable end to the war in Ukraine IF a) it was brokered by the DPRC and China was hailed internationally for it, b) NATO and the USA walk away humiliated, AND c) President Xi wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his work.
War ends; killing stops & will never resume between Ukraine and the RF. Simple as that.
Yes or no – can you, Donald, accept that trade ?
Yes, but will Putin accept it? is a better question.
I didn’t ask President Putin. I don’t want a better answer.
I want YOUR answer, Donald.
Can you, would you, make that trade ? In my hypothetical – a permanent end to the war & killing in Ukraine in exchange for worldwide admiration for China (for brokering peace) AND condemnation & humiliation for NATO and the USA (for prolonging the war).
Donald – your call on the deal as if it were 100% your decision. Yes or no ?
Where have you been the last two years?
You call that terrorism but Putin attacking and destroying civilian infrastructure in Ukraine is not? Ridiculous, and you trying to justify it is just risible.
“‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’
“’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
“’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.'”
If the infrastructure is dual-use (and it is known that Ukraine’s electric-train network DOES transport military hardware) then it becomes a legal wartime target.
Recall that for the eventual stink the USA made about the Lusitania sinking, she WAS carrying munitions for the Allies and was a legal target. Crom’s Devils, the Kaiser’s gov’t even took out an ad in a NY newspaper declaring her a target and warning possible passengers !!!
On separate news, Venezuela approves take over of oil rich land from Guyana. Hmm, I’m surprise they didn’t start calling the people of Guyana corrupted Neo Nazis criminals and fascists. Lol.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/04/americas/venezuelans-approve-takeover-of-oil-rich-region-of-guyana-in-referendum