DARING MISSION
Pro-Ukraine partisans blow up vital railway line 1,000 miles deep inside Russia pumping frontline with North Korean ammo
The partisans say they'll continue to bomb the tracks if more ammunition gets transported
THIS is the dramatic moment some pro-Ukraine saboteurs blow up a railway track used to transport deadly North Korean ammunition.
Footage shows part of the Trans-Siberian railway track blown to smithereens near the city of Russia's Yekaterinburg.
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Hidden behind the grass, the footage shows a cloud of grey smoke filling the air as the ammo detonates.
A loud boom can be heard echoing through the empty countryside as the thick plume of smoke continues to rise.
A section of the railway track is destroyed in the explosion, preventing any weaponry from North Korea reaching the front line.
The track has been used to transit vast quantities of munitions thousands of miles across Russia from North Korea under an agreement between Putin and tyrant Kim Jong Un.
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Responsibility for the explosion was taken by Russian anti-Putin resistance movement ATESH.
They revealed that the Russian media was banned from the scene of the railway explosion.
No official announcement was made by the authorities but a criminal case has been opened with an investigation by the FSB security service.
The damaged line was blocked but is being repaired.
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“The railway will explode even more often as long as ammunition is being transported along it,” said ATESH.
The group appealed for more Russians to join its ranks.
ATESH is a military partisan movement in the Putin-occupied territories of Ukraine, as well as Russia, created by Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars in September 2022.
The explosion comes after rumours began surfacing of the North Korean leader sending thousands of tunnelling troops to Russia to open a new 'underground front' on Ukraine's border.
North Korea’s state media announced that the two countries would provide the other with immediate military assistance if it were to be invaded.
According to, North Korea will send a large number of engineering and construction groups to help rebuild Russian occupied cities on the border.
North Korea is already a major weapons supplier to Moscow which is facing depleted weapons stocks and a defence industry hampered by Western sanctions.
However, Kyiv suspects that military engineers being sent by Kim Jong Un not for “restoration work” in the Donbas region, as stated, but for a more sinister purpose.
According to , Yehor Checherinda, a major in the Armed Forces of Ukraine said it was "dangerous" because a "so-called ungerground war could begin".
He said: "There is information that five engineering brigades could be deployed here from North Korea.
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"During the Korean War, tunnel, underground warfare was very actively used."
"The Defence Forces need to take into account that the DPRK troops have experience breaking through to the enemy's rear using underground tunnels, in order to exclude such operations in Ukraine."
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