Britain says sabotage of railways represents a major challenge for Russia

British intelligence services noted on Wednesday that acts of sabotage against Russian railways “remain a major challenge” to the Russian authorities, in the midst of the invasion of Ukraine, which began in February 2022. Thus, they stated that “investigations by independent Russian media MediaZona indicate “76 railway sabotage cases have been brought before the courts as of October 2023”, with cases opened against 137 people, “the vast majority of whom are under the age of 24”. They stressed, according to a statement published by the British newspaper, that “since the beginning of 2023, posters have been printed in key areas of railway infrastructure indicating that, according to Russian criminal law, sabotage can be punished with up to life imprisonment.” The Ministry of Defense through his account on the social networking site X, formerly known as Twitter. In this sense, they emphasized that Russian military logistics “remains dependent on 33,000 kilometers of railway lines” and added that “since all means of public dissent are virtually prohibited, subversive actions still call upon a minority of young people as a group.” How to protest the “special military operation”.