Russia Cripples Five Ukrainian Railway Stations with Missile Attacks

Russia targeted five Ukrainian railway stations using long-range sea and air missiles including the one in Lviv, located about 70 km from the border with Poland.

"High-precision long-range air and sea-based weapons destroyed six traction electrical substations in the areas of the Podbortsy, Lvov, Volonets, Timkovo and Pyatikhatka railway stations," Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said at a briefing on Wednesday.

According to him, through these stations, "the Ukrainian group of troops in the Donbas was supplied with weapons and ammunition produced by the United States and European countries."

Railway traction substations are designed to convert electricity and supply electric rolling stock. The other railway stations attacked are located in Lviv region’s Podbortsy village, Kirovograd region’s Timkovo, and Pyatikhatki in the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine.

The Russian Defense Ministry announced strikes on substations amid reports of Western countries increasing arms supplies to Ukraine.

On April 25, the Russian military used high-precision weapons to destroy traction substations in a number of regions of Ukraine in the areas of railway stations through which foreign weapons are supplied to the Ukrainian group in the Donbass. Konashenkov said that day that the substations were destroyed in the areas of the railway stations Krasnoe, Zdolbunov (Rivne region), Zhmerinka (Vinnitsa region), Berdichev (Zhytomyr region), Kovel (Volyn region) and Korosten (Zhytomyr region).