The Security Service of Ukraine servicemen arrested three diesel locomotives of the Belarusian Railways on the territory of Kyiv region. They say that the russian occupiers used these locomotives to transport personnel, weapons and ammunition during hostilities in the Kyiv and Chernihiv regions in February-April 2022.
Judging by the photo, these are two Belarusian diesel locomotives of the 2TE10 type (each of them can pull up to 54 loaded wagons), and one diesel locomotive of the ChME3 type (up to 15 loaded wagons).
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Assuming that up to 16 tons of shells can be loaded into one freight car, it turns out that these three locomotives could deliver up to 50,000 shells of 152 mm caliber to the russian occupiers "in one go" (although, of course, such calculations are quite arbitrary, as there’s no exact data on how the russians used this Belarusian draft for their support).
This news is important because it shows that during the battles in both Kyiv and Chernihiv Oblasts, the russian occupiers regularly used the railway to supply their troops. Until now, the logistics of the aggressor in this period was believed to be dependent only on road transport.
Although there was one episode with a fuel echelon for the invasion troops, which managed to enter the Chernihiv Oblast on February 23, 2022, and then was burned by a well-aimed strike of Ukraine’s Bayraktar TB2.
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