Ukrainian partisans say they crippled a locomotive moving Russian military supplies to the front. Agents of the ATESH movement carried out a sabotage operation near Voronezh, destroying the cab of an electric locomotive used to support military transport, ATESH reported.

Disabling a single locomotive cripples the entire supply line. The locomotive was supposed to continue its journey toward the Kupiansk direction, and after the cab was damaged, operating the machine at its former pace became impossible, disrupting the schedule for forming and dispatching the next trains.

The target was a rail supply line to the front

ATESH said the sabotage hit a link in Russia's military logistics chain. The locomotive was part of the rail transport that moves Russian military cargo, and it was bound for the Kupiansk direction, one of the active sectors of the front in Kharkiv Oblast.

Russia depends heavily on railways to supply its forces. Its army moves ammunition, fuel, weapons, and heavy equipment to the front largely by rail, so the locomotives and the lines they run on are critical arteries of its war effort. A partisan network can reach them behind the front lines at a vulnerable point.

One damaged locomotive slows the whole chain

ATESH framed the value of the strike in terms of the cascade it sets off. The loss of even one link in the mainline causes delays in the delivery of ammunition, fuel, weapons, and heavy equipment.

Those delays compound at the front. When rear supply operations are interrupted, units lose combat effectiveness and suffer significant personnel losses, ATESH said, casting a single sabotaged locomotive as a blow that reaches the soldiers, depending on what it was carrying.

The strike fits ATESH's partisan campaign

Euromaidan Press cannot independently verify the Voronezh sabotage, which is ATESH's own account. But rail sabotage is a documented feature of the war behind Russian lines, and the movement's focus on the logistics that feed the front reflects a real vulnerability in an army that runs on rail.

The Russian brigade blamed for the Bucha killings is now turning on the families of its own dead. The command of the 64th Motorized Rifle Brigade, fighting near Huliaipole in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, is intimidating the wives of missing soldiers who try to learn their fate, the ATESH partisan movement reported.

The brigade is reportedly hiding its dead by calling them missing. The relabeling lets Russia fake a lower death toll while cheating the dead soldiers' families. By logging killed troops as "missing" rather than dead, the 64th Brigade keeps its real losses out of Russia's casualty statistics and out of the compensation system.

Dmitry Shabaev, the commander of the 64th Brigade, systematically ignores the appeals of wives and mothers trying to find their relatives, the partisans claim.

Meanwhile, security services and counterintelligence pressure the women, threatening them with criminal cases for "discrediting" the army and total loss of any payments if they keep searching, according to ATESH.

The command relabels the dead to hide losses

ATESH described the mechanism with a recent example. On 30 May 2026, Ukraine's Defense Forces struck the "Prymorskyi Posad" training ground in occupied Zaporizhzhia Oblast used by the 64th Brigade, and the unit's losses were at least 31 soldiers, 13 of whom the staff promptly wrote off as "missing."

The Kremlin relies on hard commanders like Shabaev, who became brigade commander in 2025 and has already "zeroed out" several rotations of his battalions, ATESH said.

The unit is the same one tied to Bucha

The 64th Brigade carries a specific history. At the start of the full-scale war, it operated in the Bucha district of Kyiv Oblast and is one of the main subjects of the Bucha war-crimes investigations.

That record is documented. Weeks after Ukrainian forces retook Bucha in April 2022 and revealed executed civilians in the streets, Vladimir Putin awarded the 64th Brigade an honorary "Guards" title.