Rail War

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Rail War
Part of the Eastern Front of World War II
Date June 1943 – 19 August 1944 Location German-occupied Byelorussian and Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republics and Baltic States Result Soviet victory German logistics significantly disrupted
Belligerents
Soviet Union Supported By National Committee for a Free Germany	Germany Supported By  Kingdom of Hungary
Commanders and leaders
Panteleimon Ponomarenko Ilya Starinov
Units involved
Soviet partisans Kampfgruppen des NKFD

The Rail War (Russian: Рельсовая война, romanized: Relsovaya voyna; Belarusian: Рэйкавая вайна, romanized: Rejkavaja vajna; Ukrainian: Рейкова війна, romanized: Reikova viina) was the name for a World War II action of Soviet partisans and the German Kampfgruppen des NKFD as their auxiliary force in the Soviet Union, especially in German-occupied Byelorussia and Ukraine. The operations were carried out with the intention of disrupting German logistics via the destruction of rail lines, thus preventing the travel of equipment and manpower to the front.