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On the night of 29-30 November, an explosion occurred on the Baikal-Amur Mainline in the Severomuysky Tunnel, named after Vladimir Bessolov, located in Buryatia (Russia).

Source: Ukrainska Pravda’s source in the security forces

Details: The source notes that this is actually the only major railway connection between Russia and China. And currently this route, which Russia uses, specifically for military supplies, is paralysed.

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 11 months ago (3 children)

That's pretty damn deep behind enemy lines! Guess Russian security services are too busy with culture war run-arounds to do actual work.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Recruiting spies and saboteurs from that region of Russia should be very easy. Since a majority of their military conscription happens in the poorer rural regions first, I am sure there are quite a few people out there that are getting pissed off.

That is just a theory of course, but I really hope it's a sign of what is really going on in the country.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

Yeah it's insane how far on the other side of Russia this happened. Fuckin ballsy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

But da gays!!!

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (1 children)

don't you just hate it when freight trains explode inside those infrastructure critical tunnels

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (2 children)

A big hole in homeland security is railway engineer screening and hijacking prevention. There is nothing to stop a rogue engineer, or an ISIS terrorist, from driving a train into the Pentagon, the White House or the Statue of Liberty, and our government has done fuck-all to prevent it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

Almost got me lmao

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

4.50 from Pentagon

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The Russia China border is 4,200 km long. There are three major rail crossings between Russia and China, which is honestly less than I was expecting...

So yeah kudos destroying 1/3 of the rail connections between the two countries

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Trans Siberian went all the way around the Chinese border before they were allowed to shorten it by going through China.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I guess it's all desert or tundra for most of that border, I also assumed there were more crossings

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's not Kerch, but I'll take it

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

At first I read Crimea, but this is a whole different form of good news

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Same. I read the title as Russia <> Crimea, then the excerpt that you posted. In the end I was like wtf how does China play a role in the connection between Russia and... oh... oooohhhh....!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Ayyyyy^lmao^

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

"[…] the Baikal-Amur Mainline in the Severomuysky Tunnel, named after Vladimir Bessolov, located in Buryatia (Russia)"

Hmm, I don't see the naming connection here

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Well, it might be some weird russian naming convention. I've understood that people have hard time reading Tolstoi and Dostojevsky and kind, because a single character in those books have up to seven names, because it's part of russian culture. And apparently those nsmes are completely logical to every other character in the stories.

Then again, I'm not sophisticated enough to have read anything from them, but that's what I've gathered from how other people speak about those books.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

"The North-Baltic Sea canal, named after Kaiser Willhelm II".

That is, "Severomuysky" is an adjective meaning "relating to the northern Muya mountain range", geology not a person's name. OTOH I can't find anything about it being named after Bessolov. I can't even find a Vladimir Bessolov, there's a Vladimir Ivanovich Bessonov, politician checks out but -- KPRF? From Rostov-on-Don? I don't see anything about Buryatia much less the tunnel. Then there's Volodomir Vasylyovych Bessonov... that actually might work. Played in the national football team of the USSR, doesn't take much for a fan to name a tunnel after a football player.