Overnight on January 18, Ukrainian partisans carried out a sabotage operation that knocked out a substation in Bryansk, which supplied enterprises working under contracts for Russia’s Ministry of Defense.
Fuel storage bases also lost power, the partisan movement “ATESH” said.
“Critical blow to Russia’s military logistics: ATESH has damaged a key substation in Bryansk!” the statement said.
ATESH said its agent conducted the operation in the industrial zone of the Volodarsky district — in the settlement of Bolshoye Polpino — disabling equipment at the electrical substation.
“This substation is a vital link for Russia’s war machine,” ATESH emphasized.
The group said the substation supplies power to:
- Polpinskaya station, through which trains carrying ammunition and equipment pass to the front;
- district enterprises (including the Bryansk repair enterprise and others) working for the needs of Russia’s Ministry of Defense;
- fuel storage facilities, where the loss of electricity caused problems with pumps and safety systems.
“Power loss is causing automation failures and significant delays in deliveries,” ATESH said.
The Ukrainian partisans said they target weak points in the enemy’s power system to paralyze its rear, and released video evidence of the sabotage.
Earlier, on the night of January 16, the “Morozovskaya” substation in temporarily occupied Berdyansk was hit
On January 8, ATESH reported that Russian forces in the Kherson region were experiencing mass failures of their boats.
