Disruption of Logistics Routes in Crimea Complicates Maintenance for russian Occupying Forces
The successful disruption of logistics routes in the temporarily occupied territory of the Crimean Peninsula is making it increasingly difficult to maintenance the russian Occupiers forces there, reports The National Resistance Center of Ukraine.
In particular, the destruction of the Conro Trader rail ferry by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on August 22 in the port of Kavkaz was a significant blow to russian logistics. The capacity of rail ferries was reduced by three times from the baseline, and in fact stopped, as there are no rail ferries that the russians could quickly use in this direction.
Earlier damage to the railroad part of the Crimean bridge made it impossible for echelons with fuel to pass through it. To supply the invaders’ contingent in Crimea, the Kerch ferry crossing was the only alternative.
At present, the enemy has reached the point where they are looking for barges that they can adapt to ferry railroad trains with fuel. However, the russians still do not know how to remove the remains of the flooded ferry to free up the approach to the shore where it could accept railroad tanks.
In response, the enemy is ramping up fuel supplies through the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson regions via a complex railroad route. This effort aims to double the rail transportation of diesel fuel and gasoline along the so-called “northern bypass of the Crimean Peninsula,” reaching up to 160 tank cars per day.
In addition, the invaders are hastily building a railroad on the route TAGANROG-ILOVAISK and MARIUPOL-VOLNOVAKHA. The underground actively monitors the progress of this construction and provides information to the Defense Forces about vulnerable areas along the route, such as bridges and overpasses. The Ukrainian underground has also repeatedly destroyed relay cabinets and caused damage to switching points.