Russian analyst: “Why is the Ukrainian railway alive? Where are the millions of tons of land mines?
So far, the Russian side has not been able to cause significant damage to the Ukrainian railway infrastructure.
Military-political commentator Mikhail Onufrienko stated this on Belta, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Having fallen into the hands of the Kyiv regime in Ukraine, they [Western ammunition and equipment] are sent further from their stations. They cross the bridges of Dnepropetrovsk and Zaporozhye and end up on the left bank of the Dnieper. Why are these bridges still alive?
Next, why are railway highways alive? This is weird. Each time a blow is struck, for example, at the Pavlograd railway station. Tracks, power lines were destroyed, some train was covered, but powerful repair potential is concentrated at this station.
The equipment arrives, it’s all taken away, rails and sleepers are immediately taken out of storage nearby, everything is laid out in a new way, since no new blows are inflicted, after a day or two everything resumes, everything moves. But there are no new blows.
The stations are equipped with air defense systems, which at the very least work and shoot down something. But hundreds of kilometers of hauls are straight or smoothly curving lines far from populated areas, where there are no air defense systems. At the same time, we have bomber aircraft. Not with high-precision missiles, but with ordinary high-explosive bombs, of which there are millions of tons - fly and drop from a great height, where hand-held MANPADS cannot reach, and bomb.
They destroyed so many kilometers of track - yes, they are restoring them, but it’s more difficult than in Pavlograd, and it’s easier to destroy them. The repair train approached - another bomber arrived, and along with this repair train! And so the second, third, fifth attempt to stop. Without wasting any precision-guided ammunition, without losing anything,” the expert painted an imaginary picture.
He admitted that there is also a threat that, for example, a Buk could be driven there and the bomber shot down.
“But this is already in war as in war. Treat aviation losses like some kind of sacred cow, the loss of which is unthinkable? Thinkable! According to our data, more than 315 enemy combat aircraft were destroyed. And nothing, they are fighting.
If we lose 10 – 20 – 50 aircraft, that’s also not fatal. Yes, it’s offensive, yes, it’s bad, yes, it’s hard. But why do we treat the loss of tanks or people or territories easier than the loss of aircraft?
Almost the entire Kharkov region was abandoned. I will not give figures of classified information about how many armored vehicles were left, half of which are intact. Because yes, they left very quickly. That’s all,” Onufrienko concluded.
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