The Lugansk regional administration has called on the so-called "partisans" that blew up a train carrying coal at the Krasnaya Mogila train station not to organize sabotage against the Ukraine-controlled part of the Lugansk region, which is the only region of Ukraine that is disconnected from the power grid because of power transmission lines damaged by fighting. The press service of the Lugansk region’s Governor Hennadii Moskal announced this in a statement.
"The lion's share of the electricity for the population centers on our territory is provided by a thermal power plant in the city of Schastye, which runs on coal of the grade A. this type of coal does not exist on the territory under Ukraine’s control, it is mined in Rovenky and Sverdlovsk (occupied zones). The Rovenkiantratsit and Sverdlovskantratsit coal enterprises, like the thermal power plant in Schastye, belong to the DTEK company and are registered on territory under Ukraine’s control. To provide the thermal power plants with fuel, coal of the grade A from Rovenki and Sverdlovsk is delivered by train through the Gukovo train station on the territory of the Russian Federation, where it undergoes customs and border control, and then through the Lantranovka station on the territory of the Lugansk region under Ukraine’s control and unloaded at the thermal power plant in Schastye. No other traffic on this route, coal from Rovenki and Sverdlovsk is not unloaded in Russia because Russia has a surplus of its own coal of the grade A. Therefore, the blowing up of a train with coal intended for the Schastye thermal power plant is direct sabotage against the territory of the Luhansk region under Ukraine’s control," said Moskal.
As the New Times publication reports, citing the press service of the Dnepr-1 regiment, a guerrilla unit coordinated by the regiment blew up a freight train loaded with coal that rebels were planning to transport Russia in the early hours of January 22. The train was at the Krasnaya Mogila station near Sverdlovsk (Donetsk region). According to the report, two of the train’s cars and a section of the railway were destroyed.
