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       By Justin Porter

       Dec. 31, 2023, 3:44 p.m. ET

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       A photo Russia released last month purporting to show the site of a derailed train. Credit...Investigative Committee of Russia, via Associated Press

       Ukraine steps up sabotage, targeting trains As Russia and Ukraine each fail to make substantial advances at the front in their war, Ukraine has been turning to guerrilla tactics, including sabotage, assassinations and the targeting of Russian trains and train tunnels.

       On Nov. 29, Ukrainian saboteurs placed explosives on a Russian freight train roughly 3,000 miles from the Ukrainian border, in an attempt to damage an important tunnel through the Severomuysky mountains. After an explosion rocked the tunnel, Russian officials said the blast had been caused by “the detonation of an unidentified explosive device.” Ukrainian partisans also said that they had blown up a freight train last month as it was transporting ammunition and fuel from Russian-occupied Crimea.

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