Atesh partisans sabotaged railway infrastructure in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg, disrupting Russian military logistics “in all strategic directions,” the group claimed on Sept. 17.

An agent of the Ukrainian-founded partisan group set fire to a relay cabinet, Atesh said, publishing footage of the burning equipment at night.

Yekaterinburg, Russia’s fourth-largest city and the regional center of Sverdlovsk Oblast, lies far from the front lines in Ukraine, almost 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) from the nearest Ukrainian border.

“Ammunition, armored vehicles, fuel, and personnel bound for the front — as well as shipments to factories and depots in the north and east — passed through this junction,” Atesh said.

The operation took place at a railway marshalling yard on the western outskirts of Yekaterinburg, part of the 7,150-kilometer (4,440-mile) Sverdlovsk Railway, according to a map published by Atesh. The date of the operation was not specified.

0:00/1×Purported footage of a railway cabinet set ablaze by Atesh partisans, published on Sept. 17, 2025. (Atesh/Telegram)

“Now military trains are idling, which is damaging the (Russian) army’s rear supply lines,” Atesh said.

The Kyiv Independent could not verify the claims.

The Atesh group regularly conducts sabotage operations on military infrastructure in occupied Ukrainian territory and deep within Russia.

Only last week, another Atesh operation allegedly destroyed a communications tower at an air defense factory in the Russian city of Tula.

Partisan operations and long-range Ukrainian strikes frequently target Russian railway infrastructure, aiming to disrupt the logistics and supply chains of Russia’s Armed Forces.

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