Ukrainian media reported on Sunday that the country’s forces, operating behind enemy lines, destroyed, during a complex, coordinated special operation involving the military and intelligence services, a train carrying fuel to Russian troops in the region Zaporizhia (south), also putting the rail route out of service, at least for a while.

Long-range artillery and reconnaissance and attack drones were used, according to the same sources.

A section of the tracks in front of the 40-car train was initially blown up by a sabotage group, according to Ukrainian media, citing the HUR military intelligence service. The machine was then targeted by a HIMARS-launched missile and attack drones hit several more of the approximately 40 carriages, which were destroyed, according to the Ukrainian side.

The newspaper Ukrainska Pravda published on its website video from an unmanned aerial reconnaissance vehicle showing the burning train.

The purpose of the operation was to hit the “resupply” of the Russian forces with fuel transported from Crimea “in the temporarily occupied areas in (the region of) Zaporizhia,” HUR also assured the Reuters news agency.

There has been no comment from Moscow at this stage.

The Russian armed forces control about 70% of this region. A Ukrainian military spokesman said last month that Kiev expects Moscow to begin coordinated offensive operations in Zaporizhia soon.

They also control about 70% of the territory of the neighboring Kherson region and about 80% of the two regions of Donbass—in eastern Ukraine—which is the main front of the war that has lasted more than 33 months.

Moscow has proceeded to annex these four Ukrainian regions, a move which Kiev and most countries of the international community do not recognize.