Jason Jay Smart
On July 19, 2025, Ukrainian drones struck the Kamennolomni rail junction in Rostov Oblast, cutting a vital Russian supply line to Crimea. This high-impact drone strike halted military rail transport, stalled ammunition and fuel convoys, and disrupted troop movements toward Zaporizhzhia, Melitopol, and the Kerch Bridge. Since Russia relies on rail for over 70 percent of its frontline logistics, the strike revealed a critical structural weakness in Moscow’s war machine.
This video breaks down Ukraine’s precision strike strategy targeting Russian rail hubs, oil depots, and command infrastructure. The Kamennolomni operation is part of a larger campaign of logistics warfare designed to collapse Russia’s military mobility and economic throughput. Rather than engaging in frontal combat, Ukraine is disabling the backend systems that sustain Russian offensives, forcing the Kremlin to divert resources and manpower away from the front.
We also examine the wider fallout. Rail freight volumes have declined, inflation is accelerating, and elite Russian brigades are reaching exhaustion. With military supply chains under pressure and economic indicators deteriorating, Ukraine is dismantling Russia’s warfighting capability not through mass assaults but by severing the critical arteries that keep the regime operational.
Ukraine are slowly bleeding russia. With a little more help they could complete the job and make the world a safer place.
Railroads are the achilles heel of Russian logistics. and the three most vulnerable points of their railroads are:
1) Tressels because they are easier to blow up and take longer to repair that the road bed.
2) Locomotives they are expensive to make and keep repaired. with out them nothing moves.
3) The maintenance infrastructure. This includes the repair shops and the track maintenance crews. Russia has a robust rail repair organization that can quickly move into an area and undoe any damage.
What to deal with this:
Use a zone attack strategy. use various reconnaissance assets on the ground and electronic to identify the major Air Defense (AD) assets in a specific area. Conduct a major SEAD attack to thin out the AD in the target area. With the AD suppressed target all of the maintenance facilities in the target area and launch a massive attack designed to destroy the shop’s ability to function. Do not just blow up a few broom closets. every machine tool should be as slaged as a T-72 hit by a javelin. Total loss is the goal. If possible do during the hours of operation and kill as many machinist’s as possible. Tools can be replaced, Machinists have to be trained.
Next, target every railroad trestle in the area. once the repair crews arrive start targeting the them and their equipment. The Russians will send AD to protect them so keep the area under surveillance and conduct another SEAD mission.
once one area is cleared start on the next. Rinse and Repeat.
while suppressing locomotive repair factories were the new locomotives are being build should be targeted intensively.
Ideally this should be done incoordination with local ground operations so that the Russian forces will be at their weakest.
All of this is resource intensive but the effects can be desitating to Russian logistics and if done thoroughly will have a lasting effect on the ground.