Kyiv’s saboteurs strike deep in enemy territory, with Russian media reporting that authorities are investigating it as a terror attack.

Ukraine’s security service blew up a railway connection linking Russia to China, in a clandestine strike carried out deep into enemy territory, with pro-Kremlin media reporting that investigators have opened a criminal case into a “terrorist attack.”

The SBU set off several explosions inside the Severomuysky tunnel of the Baikal-Amur highway in Buryatia, located some 6,000 kilometers east of Ukraine, a senior Ukrainian official with direct knowledge of the operation told POLITICO.

“This is the only serious railway connection between the Russian Federation and China. And currently, this route, which Russia uses, including for military supplies, is paralyzed,” the official said.

Four explosive devices went off while a cargo train was moving inside the tunnel. “Now the (Russian) Federal Security Service is working on the spot, the railway workers are unsuccessfully trying to minimize the consequences of the SBU special operation,” the Ukrainian official added.

Ukraine’s security service has not publicly confirmed the attack. Russia has also so far not confirmed the sabotage.

  • Siegfried@lemmy.worldEnglish
    124·
    1 year ago

    Thanks for the details

    Just to add, according to Denys Davidov’s report on ukraine, the first train was carrying jet fuel, which added to the whole explosion.

      • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
        256·
        1 year ago

        Jet fuel can’t blow up steel beams! Wake up sheeple!

        Wasn’t that the reason though that the Twin Towers in NY fell, because the jet fuel melted the steel beams infrastructure?

        I had read/seen that the buildings were actually designed to handle a plane crashing into them, but the architects didn’t expect the metal beams to melt from the high-temperature burning jet fuel.

        • IphtashuFitz@lemmy.worldEnglish
          291·
          1 year ago

          My understanding is that the beams were sprayed with a fire retardant foam that is designed to protect it in the event of a typical building fire. But the violent impact of the jets would have stripped most of it off, and the jet fuel did indeed weaken the beams. They wouldn’t have melted outright, but softening them after already being damaged by the impact was more than it could handle.

          • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
            113·
            1 year ago

            That’s my understanding as well.

            And that the fire retardant foam was designed to be hit by an airplane and stay on, but it was just designed in those days for a smaller 737 impact, and not for a heavybody plane, so it got knocked off, exposing the beams.

            Edit: Lol, ok, meant beams, not beans.

        • shottymcb@lemm.eeEnglish
          151·
          1 year ago

          It didn’t need to melt, raising the temperature of steel decreases it’s strength.

        • StorminNorman@lemmy.worldEnglish
          141·
          1 year ago

          It’s a conspiracy theory, and not a particularly intelligent one. Us normies like to make jokes like this mocking people who believe it, but they do actually believe it and will come up with some batshit insane logic to support their theories.

          • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
            116·
            1 year ago

            I haven’t heard of anything to refute that, and have heard things to confirm that.

            If you have any info you’d like to submit, please do so.

            Edit: By refute that, I mean refuting that the jet fuel burning caused the metal to weaken onto collapse.

            • Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.eeEnglish
              20·
              1 year ago

              If you have any info you’d like to submit, please do so.

              Well, here’s what 5 minutes of research yielded

              For example, according to www.911research.wtc7.net, steel melts at a temperature of 2,777 degrees Fahrenheit, but jet fuel burns at only 1,517 degrees F. No melted steel, no collapsed towers.

              https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fahrenheit-2777/

              All materials weaken with increasing temperature and steel is no exception. Strength loss for steel is generally accepted to begin at about 300°C and increases rapidly after 400°C. By 550°C steel retains approximately 60% of its room temperature yield strength, and 45% of its stiffness.

              https://www.steelconstruction.info/Fire_damage_assessment_of_hot_rolled_structural_steelwork#:~:text=All materials weaken with increasing,and 45%25 of its stiffness.

              Jet fuel burns at 1500f, which is 815c. At 800c steel retains less than 20% of the strength that it has at room temperature. There you go, fully debunked with minimal effort and extremely basic facts.

              • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
                111·
                1 year ago

                Well, here’s what 5 minutes of research yielded

                The problem is, I read contradictory information, so both sides say they’re correct…

                For example, this…

                FACT: Jet fuel burns at 800 to 1500 degrees Fahrenheit, not hot enough to melt steel (2750 degrees Fahrenheit). However, experts agree that for the towers to collapse, their steel frames didn’t need to melt, they just had to lose some of their structural strength—and that required exposure to much less heat.

            • StorminNorman@lemmy.worldEnglish
              41·
              1 year ago

              The internet since 2001…? There’s reams of examples of people who believe this crap and have posted it. I wouldn’t be surprised if people have done PhDs where this conspiracy theory is featured heavily.

              • rottingleaf@lemmy.zipEnglish
                2·
                1 year ago

                This particular one is amazingly stupid for anybody who’ve dealt with materials and heat in their life. Like making barbecues.

              • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
                25·
                1 year ago

                Just to make sure we are on the same page, are you saying that the jet fuel burning the metal beams of the building is true, or a conspiracy?

                • StorminNorman@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  81·
                  1 year ago

                  I’m saying the part of the comment you initially highlighted is a joke based on a well known conspiracy theory with no basis in reality. It’s been so long since I read up on it, the beams may not have burnt. They just may have been weakened by the heat. Either way, it matters not as we have pretty good evidence that the twin towers did fall after two planes loaded with fuel hit em.

                  • Chocrates@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    91·
                    1 year ago

                    From what I recall the heat from the burning weakened the structure and the entire floor basically collapsed onto the lower ones, this continued as each weakened floor couldn’t hold the weight until the buildings collapsed

        • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
          152·
          1 year ago

          Yeah it’s a really dumb meme because obviously it can. The ancient Romans worked steel, so obviously it doesn’t have a particularly high melting temperature.

          • EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
            25·
            1 year ago

            Jet fuel can’t melt steel beams. It doesn’t burn nearly hot enough.

            However, for a structure to fail you don’t need to melt the beams, and getting them hot enough will also damage their structural integrity; they’ll fail long before they reach the melting point.

            And this is what happened on 9/11.

            • mxcory@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
              14·
              1 year ago

              Even wood alone is capable of getting steel red hot under the right condition. Given my experience was with metal floor grating in a burn barrel. The steel became easily malleable with just a metal rod.

        • doctorcrimson@lemmy.todayEnglish
          8·
          1 year ago

          At the temperature Jet Fuel burns at, Steel becomes as flexible as cooked noodles, but technically they have not “melted.”

          • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
            21·
            1 year ago

            I don’t think those buildings were built to withstand an airplane, at least not the one they were hit by.

            From what I saw on a show that covered that a long time ago, they were, but not for the larger planes that we have today, but the ones that flew back in the 70’s.

        • Gestrid@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          I love how they drew the Sheeple in a completely different artstyle for emphasis.

      • Siegfried@lemmy.worldEnglish
        61·
        1 year ago

        Russia is shooting its own foot since the start of the war… an inside job sounds plausible at this point (kidding)

        • Restaldt@lemm.eeEnglish
          12·
          1 year ago

          Of course Russia is shooting itsself. I bet if it could throw itsself out a window it would.

          How dare Russia make Russia look so weak