The rail network matters strategically—and symbolically
, possibly in the hope that its troops might find the tracks useful. But more recently it has launched salvos of rockets against the network. The latest came on May 17th, when Russia fired missiles at rail infrastructure near Lviv, a city in western Ukraine. The attack followed similar strikes in early May and late April, as well as the shelling of a crowded railway station in Kramatorsk, in eastern Ukraine, on April 8th that killed at least 52 people.
But as the invasion has dragged on the railways have instead bolstered Ukraine’s resilience. Its army often operates through nimble ambush groups that do not require rail transport . But the influx of Western arms and supplies on which Ukraine increasingly relies are often shifted across the country by rail. Trains have also allowed civilians to escape Russian advances, and casualties to be evacuated in hospital wagons.
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