Ukraine's new strategy to ‘sabotage’ Putin by targeting Russian railway lines | Michael Binyon

“It looks like sabotage within Russia.”
Ukraine deploys a new strategy by targeting “vital” Russian railway lines in new strategy to stop weapons going to their front line in Ukraine, explains The Times’s Michael Binyon.
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[@johnvaleanbaily246]

The US is imposing the same sort of ridiculous rules of war that were imposed on US forces in the Vietnam war; Don't hit Haiphong for fear of hitting Russian or Chinese ships. Don't fly too near the Viet/Chines border. What Bo!!ock$. If you're going to wage war, make it all out, no limitations, otherwise give up now. Ridiculous.

[@jaypaige7550]

Yeah, it's like fighting with a Stright jacket on, just dumb!

[@wesleygordon1645]

All out war leads to all out destruction!

[@xenofontzaras1112]

Exactly, this is absolutely ridiculous. Do they really in the US Government have any kind of geopolitic strategies there?? Are they really afraid of the Russians??? Biden is an anxious old man

[@13shadowwolf]

​@@wesleygordon1645no, it leads to Russia running away.

[@leo-db5do]

@@13shadowwolf Yesterday Ukraine hit the 10 floor block of apartments in Belgorod in Russia making a giant hole from 1 to the last floor, 16 flats collapsed. Kids died, a newborn baby is in the hospital with burnt face and neck. Many died, wounded, missing. Not a word about it in the NYT, Washington Post, Politico, Economist. Imagine what photographic drama they'd make out of it this was Ukraine. Their minister said they need HUNDREDS of billions to win.

[@Vokdor1]

There should be no restrictions on how Ukraine defends itself, they are not the aggressor

[@AlexV6]

We live in the world where if your attacker is a nuclear power, you should show restrain and defend yourself only on your internationally recognized territory so you won't provoke an escalation. Countries that don't have nuclear weapons at the moment should keep this in mind when they decide whether they should keep their not nuclear status.

[@Vokdor1]

@@AlexV6 nukes are a jedi mind trick. They have to be ignored otherwise the bully wins all conflicts... the victim checkmated by fear.

[@bryandimery6509]

Lotta dead kids in the donbass say otherwise

[@braxxian]

Ukraine cozying up to the West and wanting to join NATO makes them an aggressor in Russia’s eyes. Russia sees NATO as a hostile power. Ukraine isn’t as innocent as they make themselves out to be.

[@Simon-d]

that's reckless, as the Ukrainian supply lines go to Poland and further on to Europe.

[@hanserikkratholmrasmussen6623]

It is so idiotic to put these restrictions on the Ukrainians. Russia is the aggressor, and you often need to defend yourself by hitting the aggressor on his ground. These restrictions are meaningless nonsens.

[@ericwhitlam7517]

They just work for the orcs because they don't have any boundaries for them

[@AlexV6]

They make perfect sense if you are not interested in Ukraine's "victory" and all you care about is a potential use of nukes by Russia.

[@vegas1a]

Yesterday I saw a Lloyd Austin news conference, he said point blank that the long range ATACMS were unrestricted and UKR could use them as THEY saw fit.....

[@toby9999]

Restrictions are not idiotic. It's within the rights of doner countries to place restrictions where they see fit taking into account who the enemy is i.e. a nuclear weapons armed super power. It's not so good for Ukraine, but worse would be to have no doners.

[@nsevv]

​@@toby9999russia won't use nu clear weapons, they have been warned by China not to use nu kes

[@adrianappleyard4005]

Please when stating who is supplying weapons to Ukraine. Just state weapons are being supplied from NATO allies. It’s not just the USA and GB. It’s many countries helping Ukraine.

[@grisall]

NATO allies are sending too little too late.

[@kellanhills1972]

Yea nato allies sending MILLIONS of dollars of aid! 😂😂😂.

[@davidelliott5843]

NATO allies sending $ millions. USA sending $ Billions. Not much difference there.

[@timmommens901]

​@@davidelliott5843 Think before you speak 😊

[@icu17siberia]

clarify the record....what countries have provided what lethal aid, and how much?

[@renatob9909]

I think it is so absurd all these restrictions on Ukraine. I mean this is war, it is normal to hit your anamy at their territory

[@leo-db5do]

Ukraine hit the 10 floor block of apartments in Belgorod in Russia making a giant hole from 1 to the last floor, 16 flats collapsed. Kids died, a newborn baby is in the hospital with burnt face and neck. Many died, wounded, missing. Not a word about it in the NYT, Washington Post, Politico, Economist. Imagine what photographic drama they'd make out of it this was Ukraine. Their minister said they need HUNDREDS of billions to win.

[@tabithan2978]

The Kerch Bridge is going down. Taking bets on which month it gets demolished.

[@djanitatiana]

May 7. Putin's "inauguration"

[@JimRogers-oc2jd]

No it's a negotiating objective! What is call 'the golden bridge' quite Sun Tuz the art of war. It ties down defences, and if Ukrians states it will give 3 months to evecuate all Russin persons from Crimia befor they take down the bridge! Can you imagine Putins reply and reaction?

[@bryandimery6509]

Is, is thay an accomplishment? They kicked natos teeth in and youre gonna bomb an inanimate object. Jfc you prob punch walls when youre mad too.

[@ghostlightx9005]

The threat of attacking it could be more potent than actually doing it. They have to close it for hours at considerable expense whenever they perceive a threat, real or otherwise.

[@ghostlightx9005]

@@JimRogers-oc2jd They should absolutely issue such a warning. Also.... July.

[@SuperMagnum2011]

GLORY TO UKRAINE 🇺🇦 The Uk stands by you.🇬🇧

[@jayvincent8860]

LOL,,,, clown!! Glory to RUSSIA!!

[@rockerteen8300]

This is such an obvious move, if you take out train engines they can't use them. I was wondering why they weren't doing that months ago.

[@maggotman2024]

I thought Putin was following a scorched earth policy but I was informed that Russia has always looked that way, or at least those parts oligarchs and western elites don’t see.

[@lahy1060]

The US Congress just passed the law of a $60 Bn aid package to Ukraine that has a provision of providing ATACMS to Ukraine, but it Did Not say or specify where and which targets those long-range missiles can fire at. So, President Zelensky can give orders to his Generals to fire anywhere he deems necessary to defend his country including military targets deep inside Russia such as weapon depots, airfields, weapons manufactory, energy production facilities, air defense infrastructures, command control centers, troops concentration, etc. In other words, the Ukrainian Armed Forces can use ATACMS for any purpose to defend their country as they deem necessary. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin inferred in his press conference, no restrictions on the use of ATACMS since the law provides no 'Restrictions" on the use of those missiles.

[@davidelliott5843]

ATACMS has a range of 400 Km with a small warhead. That’s not even 300 miles. The ultra long range light aircraft drones need to arrive in force.

[@icu17siberia]

I've seen this exact post 10 times today. What's the agenda?

[@lahy1060]

@@icu17siberia To make sure President Zelensky knows it.

[@Bird_McBride]

The train is the huge gigantic problems now. Zelenski doesn't make military decisions. He's a professional beggar and he's really good at it.

[@edbaker515]

That is awful state of affairs... With nato state s putting ridiculous restrictions on weapons use by Ukraine on attacks against Russia in Russia, what kind of nonsense is.... Here to day gone tomorrow politician. How have zero understanding of defense

[@pashakdescilly7517]

Ukraine should refrain from using western weapons on Russian territory if Russia refrains from using weapons in Ukraine. IF....

[@drdoc7508]

Kerch bridge is in the crosshairs

[@vegas1a]

2+ years and still waiting. The newer more powerful generation of Sea Baby attack drones AND the newer longer range missiles and we might get that thing to splash down.....

[@TonyM540]

It’s really nice of western countries to announce publicly what weapons they are going to supply and when Ukraine can expect delivery.

[@fenrirgg]

It can't be that easy, they must be telling almost truths.

[@icu17siberia]

I haven't heard any specifics except UK and US. I know Germany provide a patriot system. Otherwise...silence

[@bryandimery6509]

It...makes no difference

[@Vikingpoints]

Why does it matter? All of the announcements over 2 years and Russia still hasn’t been able to stop them from getting to the front

[@Javr175]

Do you really think each countries intelligence doesnt choose when the information is released? 😂

[@Jake4Truth]

How many times is he going to be on rehashing things?

[@davidelliott5843]

Crummy editing I think.

[@Bird_McBride]

The Ukraine is lost and they know it. The French guy knew it a while ago. He figured he has to send in the French army...and french nukes.

[@ghostlightx9005]

Good idea. Pretty hard to defend thousands of miles of railway. And tons of it passes through very nasty climate and terrain, making repairs very problematic.

[@Bird_McBride]

Russia is/has taken out Ukrainian transport routes. This is making it very difficult getting the packages to the front line. Now they want to attack Russian trains etc.

[@ghostlightx9005]

@@Bird_McBride Indeed but there's many large areas of russia that are rail or nothing.

[@fv5855]

NATO Forces should ANNEX Russia to Protect the 200,000 Plus Ukrainian Speaking People Forced into Russia 😀

[@doncarlodivargas5497]

Putin claimes russia don't have borders so they can't protest if Ukraine annex territories, to establish a security zone between russia and Ukraine are a very good idea and place it east of Ukraine would be a good solution

[@user-fh3oc5ij3s]

Nato can only target weak countries like Iraq or Lybia and not Russia instead Russia is defeating all Nato countries combined through their proxy ukraine.

[@dalecrocker3213]

Just like that?

[@ivankurtz1909]

The words Ukraine and annex just don't match! Niet nada nein. 😅

[@stu281]

Yeah no problem…then why don’t you go for it. You and who’s army.

[@user-ev1di4ml9u]

It's not a surprise that the American government would not want their weapons used to aggressively. They supposedly tied the hands of their own military in Vietnam!

[@j7j7j7j7x]

People with good sense want to avoid nuclear war. There is no winning scenario on the table, no regime change. The original goal was to weaken Russia, but it didn't work.

[@secretarykilkennychoir7137]

Locomotive engines must be targeted as railways lines are easily repaired.

[@soton5teve]

Do the trans-siberian railway use a derail-er spraypainted and camouflage it, pick it up just after you watch it work 😉 repeat. Or make a derail-er that is one use, so the russians can't re-use it

[@marthamartha3222]

Ukraine is doing a great 👍 job 👏👏

[@benjaminjames8657]

🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿❤️

[@kostiamedvid]

Give air component to Ukraine and see difference on the frontline

[@Bird_McBride]

They have admitted the F-16 would prove ineffective. Russia has been shooting them down since the seventies.

[@CypressENZO39]

Glory to Ukraine...

[@Linn630]

Kerch 🌉 Booom 💣💥🔥🌁

[@silafaupaulmeredith7251]

Ukraine will go again for the Crimea Bridge for PR Value.

[@goblinsgym]

Anti-tank mines with a modified fuze should be quite effective against locomotives passing over them. Could be put in place by larger drones.

[@daviddunne4737]

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 🇮🇪👍

[@Zelensky_Huilo]

LOL

[@daviddunne4737]

@@Zelensky_Huilo Expert. You know everything 🤡

[@Zelensky_Huilo]

@@daviddunne4737 No, I do not know why Ukrainians take hundreds of billions from the West, expensive cars and villas, but they do not want to use the excellent equipment they receive to make offensive against Putin, but they only know how to play PR and this "Slava".

[@Joey4rox]

CAn NATO send its own 'little green men' into Ukraine?

[@edmondv.o.katusz7945]

There are already NATO troops "booting" on the ground and being killed.

[@xenofontzaras1112]

Well, why not. If they do it in their free time, or take holiday. The material they need, they just borrow it from the stores, and on Monday they bring it back Like in 2014, but now otherside

[@livingtribunal4110]

#575 on the list of *´How Ukraine can do such-and-such to Russia´* ...and yet...yet none of it ever seems to happen. 🤔

[@johnkuncho7239]

Fuel, war machines run on fuel. Ukraine is right to hit fuel depots and oil wells. Trains, tanks, heavy trucks and locomotives run on diesel. They don't move without it.

[@ManChickin]

This guy had his head in the sand for the last two years?? Ukraine has been doing this since the very beginning 😂

[@dennisfarris4729]

Bet you could build a drone to ride the rails as a guerilla mine device.

[@Bird_McBride]

Use a ford pinto. No one would suspect.

[@dennisfarris4729]

@@Bird_McBride Lada more likely

[@Bird_McBride]

@@dennisfarris4729 ford pinto explodes on impact. I'd love to have one but none available.

[@JayDeeChannel]

Russia is finished. It’s just a matter of time.

[@wesleygordon1645]

No, its the other way around!

[@nigelmorley5414]

@@wesleygordon1645 wrong , you are looking at a narrow picture. the ruZZian economy is on its knees despite many statistics which are not true (obviously coming from ruZZia they are total fabrication) and the loss of many young males dead in UKraine will have a lasting effect on the ruZZian economy for decades as will the many who left ruZZia to avoid the war and will not return. Putin has simply destroyed ruZZia`s future

[@Bird_McBride]

Russia's not finished yet. Zelenski has to stand trial.

[@xenofontzaras1112]

@@Bird_McBride forgotten to take your pills today?

[@StephenLittlewood-vu7re]

These restriction on the use of weapons by Ukraine is idiotic. Why aren't there similar restriction on the use of North Korean and Iranian weapons to be used only on Russian territory? OK, Russia will say that Ukraine is Russia, so, using that bonkers logic, all NATO weapons are already breaking that usage code, so why continue to impose such unfair restriction?

[@wacojones8062]

Some railways have been hit in Siberia by forces opposing Putin.

[@Bird_McBride]

The natives in Canada obstruct trains periodically in protest. Nothing happens. They just get arrested.

[@Bird_McBride]

I often wondered, why trains?

[@Toto-no3mv]

Ukraine should stay on defense and not expend its men and material on costly offensives--let the Russians do that. A military stalemate, combined with crushing economic sanctions, should eventually cause the Russians to negociate, and this is when the Ukrainians could recover territory.

[@AlexV6]

I'm Ukrainian and I approve of this comment.

[@edmondv.o.katusz7945]

Sorry, but sanctions do not work.

[@jamesmaina1698]

They have not done nearly enough. If they had used their special forces to do this, russia would really not have any forces in Ukraine. How is russia able to supply an occupying force of over 300,000 soldiers???

[@NEVS-yo2gp]

Media📺 America🇺🇸 European🇪🇺 Union 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇩🇪🇩🇪🇬🇧🇬🇧🇧🇪🇧🇪 Pytin Pytin Pytin VORLD

[@Unsinkable_MollyBrown]

This isn't exactly new, they have been doing it for a couple of years.

[@user-sn3uo7uq6y]

Amunition dumps and arms factories going skyward in UK, Chekia, Germany. So much about sabotage (acting both ways).

[@herminenijs4064]

SPREEK DE TAAL WAAR JE WOONT... WEES NIET HOOGMOEDIG TEGENOVER HET LAND EN DE MENSEN WAAR JE VREDEVOL MAG EN KAN LEVEN

[@war-painter]

Why is this a “new” strategy of Ukraine? Where has Mr Binyon been for the past three years, in russia? Ukraine has been targeting ru railway substations and ru railway hubs deep inside russia for the past 18 months. When North Korea started sending weapons on the Vladivostok line, Ukraine sabotaged that railway line thoroughly in the dead of winter 2023. Likewise a railway hub up in Siberia with the help of saboteurs. Mr Binyon needs to keep up.

[@user-zz5hi2oc3c]

How peace can still be achieved

[@nigelmorley5414]

easy , get rid of putin

[@Bird_McBride]

Zelenski and NATO have to go. Leave the Ukraine and Russia be.

[@lukeatbrandynightful]

@@nigelmorley5414how is that easy?

[@xenofontzaras1112]

putler passes away?

[@ratwynd]

Buses were running in Hiroshima 3 days after the Nuke hit them. Humans are pretty resilient. Today it is a beautiful and modern city. I visited a few years ago and walked out to stand on the T-shaped Ground Zero bridge, which is still standing today in daily use. 70+ some years ago anyone standing there was vaporized. It was a very reflective moment. Timing is everything in life.

[@MidnightWarrior1976]

Wash, rinse, repeat, repeat, repeat.

[@51madmitch]

So why do Americans and the west keep giving Pootin a heads up of what is happening!?!? Just unbelievable that they do this, this man has just said it without any complaints about it, what happened to the element of surprise, now Russia on full alert for incoming western weapons.💪🇺🇦🇺🇦💪

[@cenccenc946]

Trains are important to russia, but don't overlook their canal system.

[@controlfreak1963]

I guess they should have built some roads with all that oil money instead of buying yachts.

[@terryfox9344]

I think that my family would prefer the yacht over some road in the middle of nowhere that peasants would use.

[@controlfreak1963]

@@terryfox9344 Spoken like a Russian Oligarch.

[@Bird_McBride]

Russia has paved and modernized all roads in occupied zones. One reason is logistics and the other is it's very difficult to mine a paved road.

[@mirkodumanovic2530]

This is pure evil

[@rmdomainer9042]

Serbs know evil

[@braxxian]

I suggest you read some history.

[@j7j7j7j7x]

Common sense, please -- this will only increase the resolve and ire of the Russian people.

[@darthamar4042]

Now we all though this is not a new strategy.

[@everTriumph]

The Russian lines will be less effective if the attacks come from the Crimean side.

[@larseriksen5385]

Reminds me of Quentin Crisp.

[@joe2mercs]

While there are plenty of rail heads, supply depots and mustering points behind enemy lines but well within Ukraine’s own borders it is not yet either necessary or productive to extend the conflict into Russian territory. The long range weapons will be used to make military centres in Crimea increasingly insecure.

[@c.garcia2363]

Slava Ukraini Heroiam Slava Slava Lidia Stepanivna Lomikovska

[@jeremymathiu9428]

Patriot missile are for blasting incoming missiles. Ukraine can't be forced to buy weapons that are not strongly dentering Russia aggressive attacs.

[@craigmiller4528]

Training ground inside RU hit by Cluster Munitions ?

[@666drea]

The Crimea bridge….not that Ukraine has the amo can end the Kirch Bridge. No more train transport of weapons and soldiers to ru

[@vegas1a]

This gentleman must be Ray Milland's secret twin brother.........

[@paulahalo]

Please note that repeating "Crimea has always been Russian....has always belonged to Russia......" is simply continually repeating a favorite phrase of Russian propaganda and spreading Russian propaganda. Crimea was annexed by the German Princess Sophie, better known as the Russian Czarina Catherine "the Great," who annexed Crimea in 1783 from the Ottoman Empire during the Crimean Wars. Crimea became part of the Ukrainian SSR in 1954. This is hardly a time span of 200 years. This does not make Crimea "always part of Russia or Russian." Prior to this Crimea was the homeland of the Crimean Tatars, the Ottoman Empire, the rule of Genghis Khan and the expanding empire of the Scythians......at all times with reciprocity of the culture of Kyivan Rus on the territory of Ukraine. This hardly makes Crimea part of Russia forever.......

[@kaylidington]

Pretty poor analysis. Belorod attacks were the initiative of anti-putin militias. Ukraine strikes military and logistical targets in russia for very good reasons, which have nothing to do with Belgorod. Perhaps acknowledge that targetting of each protagonist is very distinct: Ukraine stives to damage the russian military machine whilst russia pours its munitions into civil infrastructure. There are clear differences between the targets of either side and the strategies involved. Western 'allies' are squeamish about strikes beyond the border with russia even though there would be no such limitations or concerns if they were themselves under such an attack. Dry words. Understand the difference between Belgorod and Ukraine, military and logistics targets and civil targets, and sort out the status of Crimea - never 'Rus'ian', never the property of Moscovy (who style themselves Rus'ian and "russian").

[@51madmitch]

It’s utterly ridiculous and unbelievable with all the talk about helping Ukraine a country attacked and invaded by the terrorist state Russia, yet put restrictions on how and where they can fire them, the west should be ashamed of themselves and the treatment of Ukraine, 💪🇺🇦🇺🇦💪

[@user-tq9vk4vt5p]

Lots of "socalled experts" from LONDONGRAD! ;-) But they did not wake up when the criminal OLIGARCHS with tight bond to a a war criminal and terrorist ruled the capital! At that time where very quiet - maby due to much alcohol consumption on the PUB which is not so good in order to evaluate the situation! But of course alcohol and money talks!

[@HuskyOwner-bl1jf]

Train engines are custom made and take a long time to manufacture Assuming that Russia still has the capacity to manufacture them at all Russia relies on trains for logistics more than any other country Ukraine has been beating up a much larger enemy for more than 2 years because they are fighting smart and taking out targets that actually matter While Russia is shooting at schools, hospitals and churches trying to break the will of the Ukrainian people All that they are doing is ticking the Ukrainians off

[@SuperMagnum2011]

Thank you Michael.

[@tonyh8510]

DRONE BLITZ THE KREMLIN SLAVA UKRAINI

[@raheneherendez450]

it's not going to last

[@afrakanaswahilitv5520]

Ukraine has lost the war. They should surrender to Russia and negotiate to get the little they can get.

[@HenkBoshoff]

The appoplectic outrage... But its fine if the others do it. It would be funny, but it is just sad.

[@dhjoubert39]

Wow, you could have said all that in a fraction of the time. Repeat, repeat.

[@user-qk2pv7uu5g]

Russia power infrastructure next

[@loukasloizou8793]

You will get from the 3 the longest😅 Uraaaaaaaa uuraaaa Glory to the shovels Glory to the hypersonic washing machine 😅😅 Keep living your wet dreams 😅

[@Dabmonger]

More likely that Ukraine will eventually be given territory back, rather than winning it back.

[@Zelensky_Huilo]

More likely there will not be any "ukraine" since thereafter.

[@Dabmonger]

@@Zelensky_Huilo Ukraine could very well be restored in full and the Russian Federation broken up.

[@adamwhiteson6866]

What a windbag

[@themcgeachys]

Times radio giving Russia a heads up

[@Matthew-wn8oq]

Why do.we have to hear these interviews twice during every video? I dont get why you repeat the stuff?

[@user-td8ls5mn5q]

For the man power shortage I would say we all need to help Ukraine with technology as to offset the disparity, Ukraine needs to build massive fortified front lines which can keep the guys safe and then Ukraine should build extremely powerful bunkers behind those lines where they can house and protect battalions off the youngsters let’s say the 17 to 21 year olds who’s main job should be flying drones and using the technology which in turn will be used to protect the 29 to 39 year olds who’s main training in and job should be trench warfare defence and then 22 to 28 year olds can be trained as storm troops who can be used only to storm forwards to take positions once artillery units made up off 40 to 60s have worked and smashed the enemy with overwhelming constant attacks with high technology, and all other jobs which are far enough behind the lines such as building fortifications,digging trenches, building and repairing supply routes driving supply vehicles driving ambulances and taking care of the wounded can be done with women of all ages, even the really elderly woman and men and those with disabilities can help out even with just setting up sky watching units to look for Russian drones which they could call in, it’s time now for Ukraine to mobilise the whole population as they are facing a life and death situation, they should even start sending the 14 year old boys to start training in western countries now, that way they can be safe for years and have years of training so when they return to Ukraine when they are 17 they will have a better chance or they can do 18 months of training and return home but have the option to stay until 17

[@Zelensky_Huilo]

What "manpower shortage" are u talking about? Zelensky said there are only 35,000 ukrainian soldiers killed.

[@user-td8ls5mn5q]

@@Zelensky_Huilo maybe I should have said because of the man power disparity between Ukraine and Russia Ukraine should be helped with the use off technology to even up the odds on the battlefield

[@Zelensky_Huilo]

@@user-td8ls5mn5q But Ukraine already have all mighty excellent best equipment, not to compare with russian shovels.

[@csonracsonra9962]

They do have the Manpower they're not conscripting any males from 18 to 27

[@csonracsonra9962]

Time for them to get serious

[@Worldturnedupsidedown]

Railway lines are easily repaired

[@erikh.1883]

The time it takes accumulates and suddenly all these "easy" repairs are adding up. also Railway lines are "easy" and cheap to destroy.

[@VINLAND_777]

Not the bridges tho

[@applemos6714]

@Worldturnedupsidedown, Haha is that you Putin?

[@Paul-yh8km]

He thinks Ukraine is another Normandy landing. 😂

[@Paul-yh8km]

​@@erikh.1883atacms aren't cheap. And they only produce 500 a year for all of NATO and allies. That's the point, this guy is just a journalist he knows nothing about the weapon Vs target value.

[@operator9858]

Oh cool, i never get to speak about rail logistics. So here goes. Russia has coal and gas trains and a dedicated corps of engineers wing of their military dedicated to rail logistics that comes equipped with specialty equipment and shares the same gauge as ukraine does and russia can fix and repair huge amounts of damage very quickly. Ukraine? They have a civil program running electric trains and dont share the same gauge with europe and can be attacked anywhere in the country at any time and might not be equipped to deal with it when this actually happens. Who do you think is having the easier time out there? Also russian equipment only has to go from moscow to eastern ukraine while ukraine has to bring all its kit all the way from the polish border.

[@terryfox9344]

OK, Mr. Russian troll. You surely know the distance from Moscow to the rail hub at Rostov on Don, don't you. Gosh, that's so much less distance than from Lviv to Kyiv isn't it? Yeah. Right. I'm sure that all of those specialist Russian repairman with the best reputations in the world at the start of the war are all still on the job, without any casualties at all. And then all those special spare parts, after over two years of war, the Russian factories are experts in turning out finely crafted parts, Heck, I swear by the one Russian car that I bought. Never any mechanical issues. Runs like a top. Never a problem getting parts. That's why every rich Russian from Putin on down drives a Russian luxury vehicle, no second rate Mercedes or other German vehicle for them! And it's all Ukrainian propaganda about North Korea not being able to get its ammunition to Russia, because the Siberian railroad has been shut down for over a month. Everything in Russia is the best of the best. That's why all of the oligarchs and their families buy Russian exclusively, their many mansions and yachts are all in Russia.

[@mathewbayley1770]

Russia will just change tactics

[@gecho194]

I doubt the Russian's can reach those supplies. If they could they would, supplies have been flowing in continuously for over 2 years.

[@Bird_McBride]

The SMO is over. Russia's short range missiles start at 500 kilometers to any target in low earth orbit or on earth.

[@Bird_McBride]

The SMO is over.

[@Bird_McBride]

Russia can target any target on earth or low earth orbit. Good luck.

[@KayLa-sq7cv]

If rail was a good target it would have been hit already but its simply not what is stopping them from rerouting around broken rail till its fixed. It achieves nothing but a slight inconvenience vs better targets where they consider moving air defence off the front line in order to keep there assets safe. Rail is pointless. a waste of munition

[@terryfox9344]

You are obviously NOT Russian. The ONLY method transportation Russia has is RAIL There are NO roads. There are rivers, but they don't run the way Russia needs them to run. Without RAIL. Russia comes to a grinding halt. And oh by the way, rail has been hit before, repeatedly. The Russians put the highest priority in fixing their railways, but they are becoming less and less efficient in their repairs on a monthly basis..

[@user-rj4yk3ib8x]

the Ukraine is finished

[@dhjoubert39]

Need to get NATO boots on the ground.

[@edmondv.o.katusz7945]

So you want an all out war the West contra Russia? Guess who is going to win or loose? Weaponwise NATO has been beaten. So we go nucleair? We all die.

[@13tomasito13]

Targeting railway lines and locomotives is a great idea. Locomotives are scarce and expensive.

[@marciafierro4931]

God save Ukraine 🇺🇦🙏

[@marisabenson1222]

Why are we being bombarded with this non military expert on military matters? Really just a citizen who worked in Russia and Belarus and became an art critic.

[@war-painter]

Geezer is mos def clueless.

[@braxxian]

Sounds like your typical TR “expert”

[@ralphstern2845]

Attacking Russians behind their own lines, would turn Russians against Putin. Your analysis is flawed

[@stephenhall3515]

This is a good overall but Mr Binyon is incorrect about Crimea ever having been a part of Ukraine. As an experienced journalist in the region he must be aware that the Kruschev administrative transfer of irrigation and forestry in Crimea to Kiev in the Ukraine SSR specifically excluded entry to military areas, ownership of land and travel rights without vetting and stated purpose being approved. In any case the admin Bills never actually got through the Moscow Duma and were removed from the pending attention list by the Brezhnev-Kosygin administration. After 1991 some travel rights were gradually given and holdings in especially the leisure industry permitted. However, Kiev had promised to observe the former autonomous republics within the former SSR as 'regions' or oblasts but, over time, Kiev removed autonomy and the case of Crimea attached the larger part of the peninsula to Kherson oblast. This was annexation by pen. In subsequent elections (including 2014) Crimea voted to be an autonomous region of Russia but the Kiev Rada declared results as null. The 2014 ballot only gave the vote to Ukrainians in Crimea and the result was still closer association with Russia than with Kiev rule. Supervision was by Swiss teams sent by a weak UN leader who gave greater responsibility to the OSCE. This was gross incompetence but typical of recent UN heads. The 2014 did not suit Kiev and certainly not Washington which had been busy "buying" Kiev since Obama's first term. NATO and the EU obeyed the USA and the myth that Crimea was/is Ukrainian by right became established. Officially, the status is "disputed territory", therefore armed action (outwith Russia's military leases) against any assets legally there under lease counts as terrorism under the Bush-framed UN laws on terrorism. Thus when UK SCALP/SS cruise missiles by Kiev and US HIMARS projectiles as well these were acts of terrorism and the donor countries should have withdrawn rights to fire with glaring clarity. The ambiguities about what weapons have been used over the Russian border demonstrate how clever Kiev has been in concealment. The UMV attacks in Crimea and Crimea's EEZ, especially on vessels at moorings, are terrorist acts and also a massive breach of maritime law. The attack on a Russian naval air base using cluster munitions could not have been carried out by Kiev but only by the USA which at that time still entertained the notion of using Ukraine to fight a proxy war with Russia, as articulated by L Austin and A Blinken. Attempts to edit this footage have not worked.

[@Paul-yh8km]

This old man has no bloody idea what he's talking about. Completely out of touch with reality and a really bad armchair general.

[@nifralo2752]

Bombing railway lines helped the Mexican revolutionaries beat Porifrio diaz. His troops were stranded in different provinces of Mexico unable to reinforce each other

[@billlansdell7225]

@@nifralo2752 The Russians can repair a railway line in a few hours and bridges in a few days, as they have already done. It would be a waste of a very expensive missile. Targeting locomotives is a whole other matter, but they are moving targets. Missiles are not great for those either.

[@Paul-yh8km]

​@@billlansdell7225 Bridges would be better, but given there are a known number, they could plan and fabricate replacements in advance.

[@Paul-yh8km]

​@@nifralo2752 This is modern warfare. The immediate equivalent would be Normandy and the road to Berlin. But unlike the allies Ukraine doesn't have overwhelming air superiority and can't rapidly advance to stop the Russians rebuilding.

[@daviebevan]

Why do they reveal their forward tactics...seems odd. Or is this Times Radio fuelling the flames

[@Paul-yh8km]

It seems that telling the enemy what you are going to do at least a month in advance is the latest modern strategy.

[@LjTodockin]

Just shocked how many bloodthirsty people listened to and commented. People detached from reality mainly assisted by ignorance. 😢😢😢

[@50CJAZZ]

This guys hoity toity accent talking about the Ukraine/Russian war is like a caviar bag lunch for journalists while viewing the destruction. I think I'll have some tea now.

[@thelegendaryck]

Lol railway is the easiest to repair

[@terryfox9344]

For you. We're not talking about Americans or Germans. We're talking about Russians. When was the last time that you saw a Russian repairman, much less a Russian repairman doing eve a halfway competent job?

[@tharris1715]

😂😅 was it not in German media exactly the other way😂😅 what b.s.

[@michaelvoisine7075]

Dahh

[@michaelmichaels-tw7wd]

🤗🥰🦄

[@bobsnabby2298]

Why now, when they had 2 years time to do this.

[@charlesmartin-4334]

This guy sounds pro Russian to me

[@HenkBoshoff]

It is possibe not to restirict oneself to one or another side - most choose restriction.