A group of Belarusian railroad workers, hackers and dissident security forces worked to disrupt the flow of Russian supplies, arms and troops being shipped into Ukraine on the railroads of Belarus, a Washington Post report details.
The group worked together and independently to disrupt railroad schedules around the country, primarily by manually or electronically damaging the workings of the junction boxes that control the flow of train traffic on the tracks.
In the early part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, when troops were being brought in through Belarus, the network prevented supplies, ammunition and fuel from reaching troops in the field by rerouting trains and randomly stopping traffic. The chaos that ensued caused the Belarusian government to shut down its rail lines for about four days to clear up the issues.
Over that time, as Russian soldiers pushed into Ukraine, many units were cut off from food supplies and fuel, causing Russian troops to have to scavenge. The supply routes weren’t settled weeks into the invasion.
One of the parties taking part in the action are a group known as the “Cyber Partisans,” a network of exiled Belarusians fighting the autocratic government in Minsk.