Hennadiy Moskal, Chairman of the Military-Civilian Administration of the Luhansk Oblast reports that up to 300 meters of rail tracks were damaged by an explosion on the Luhansk Oblast on the Popasna-Roty railway, which is used to deliver coal to the Vuhlehirsk thermal power plant.
On June 12 Moskal’s press service reported “The Popasna-Roty railway section was blown up in Ukraine-controlled territory of the Luhansk Oblast, several kilometers from the contact line, after 2:00 a.m. Obviously, the explosives were planted and detonated by the adversary’s reconnaissance and sabotage group. The explosion occurred at the 5th or 6th kilometer of the railroad leading to Svitlodarsk [a town in Ukraine-controlled territory of the Donetsk region]. As a result, around 300 meters of railroad tracks were damaged,”
This rail track is crucial to shipping coal from state-run enterprises Pervomaiskvuhillya and Lysychanskvuhillya to the Vuhlehirsk thermal power plant in Svitlodarsk, the governor said.
Repair brigades and specialists of Ukraine’s State Emergency Situations Service are working. The repairs are being hampered by the fact that roads leading to the railway are mined in many places, he added. According to Moskal, train services along this railroad section are expected to resume on June 13.
