On the night of 29-30 November, an explosion occurred on the Baikal-Amur Mainline in the Severomuysky Tunnel, named after Vladimir Bessolov, located in Buryatia (Russia).
On the night of 29-30 November, an explosion occurred on the Baikal-Amur Mainline in the Severomuysky Tunnel, named after Vladimir Bessolov, located in Buryatia (Russia).
Source: Ukrainska Pravda’s source in the security forces
Details: The source notes that this is actually the only major railway connection between Russia and China. And currently this route, which Russia uses, specifically for military supplies, is paralysed.
Recruiting spies and saboteurs from that region of Russia should be very easy. Since a majority of their military conscription happens in the poorer rural regions first, I am sure there are quite a few people out there that are getting pissed off.
That is just a theory of course, but I really hope it's a sign of what is really going on in the country.
A big hole in homeland security is railway engineer screening and hijacking prevention. There is nothing to stop a rogue engineer, or an ISIS terrorist, from driving a train into the Pentagon, the White House or the Statue of Liberty, and our government has done fuck-all to prevent it.
The Russia China border is 4,200 km long. There are three major rail crossings between Russia and China, which is honestly less than I was expecting...
So yeah kudos destroying 1/3 of the rail connections between the two countries
Same. I read the title as Russia <> Crimea, then the excerpt that you posted. In the end I was like wtf how does China play a role in the connection between Russia and... oh... oooohhhh....!
Well, it might be some weird russian naming convention. I've understood that people have hard time reading Tolstoi and Dostojevsky and kind, because a single character in those books have up to seven names, because it's part of russian culture. And apparently those nsmes are completely logical to every other character in the stories.
Then again, I'm not sophisticated enough to have read anything from them, but that's what I've gathered from how other people speak about those books.
That is, "Severomuysky" is an adjective meaning "relating to the northern Muya mountain range", geology not a person's name. OTOH I can't find anything about it being named after Bessolov. I can't even find a Vladimir Bessolov, there's a Vladimir Ivanovich Bessonov, politician checks out but -- KPRF? From Rostov-on-Don? I don't see anything about Buryatia much less the tunnel. Then there's Volodomir Vasylyovych Bessonov... that actually might work. Played in the national football team of the USSR, doesn't take much for a fan to name a tunnel after a football player.
If Russia stealing everyone's airplanes didn't give anyone cassus belli, breaking one of Russia's rail lines in Russia that China liked to use probably won't.
they are not interested in getting their asses kicked by the Ukrainians and just embarrassing themselves.. obviously the Russians don't care, but China still has some face to save..