A photo of a derailed train is being circulated on Russian Telegram channels, as well as on the social networks X (formerly Twitter) and Facebook. Propagandist posts claim that this is allegedly the result of a railway track sabotage in Ukraine’s Odesa region carried out by “local pro-Russian partisans”. According to their version, the train was supposedly transporting Western military aid and fuel for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. However, this information is fake.

This was reported by Ukrinform.

In reality, the image shows the aftermath of a strike on Russian railway infrastructure in Russia’s Leningrad region. The attack was carried out by units of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine together with the Special Operations Forces.

It was previously reported that the incident occurred on the night of 14 September near the Nizovskaya station in the Luga district. At around 02:30, the railway line between St. Petersburg and Pskov was blown up on the Stroganovo-Mshinskaya section. As a result of the sabotage, a locomotive derailed and 15 fuel tank cars were destroyed.

This is another example of how Russian propaganda tries to distort facts and attribute events that took place on Russian territory to Ukrainian regions in order to create the illusion of internal resistance within Ukraine.