In Irkutsk, an 18-year-old Subway worker, “rail partisan” Ilya Podkamenny was detained. This is reported by the Telegram channel "Rospartizan".
Podkamenny wrapped the rails with copper wire, so he planned to disrupt the movement of trains. The man attached sheets from a school notebook to the railway tracks, on which there was a message of "extremist content." It is noted that for "public calls for the implementation of extremist activities" he faces up to four years in prison. The Telegram channel Shot wrote that searches were carried out at his house, the detainee confessed to everything.
In October, in the Bryansk region, unidentified people blew up the railway on the stretch between the settlements of Novozybkov and Zlynka, the governor of the region, Alexander Bogomaz, reported. Similar reports came from the Kursk region: on August 10, unknown people tried to undermine the Lgov-Sudzha railway.
Earlier, The Insider talked to members of partisan groups who claim responsibility for derailment and other accidents on Russian railways. They oppose the invasion of Ukraine.
