Russia’s war in Ukraine has confirmed expensive in males and materiel, with purported tank losses close to 3,000 alone. Therefore, it comes as no shock that Russia would use what it already has, together with armored trains. These trains are completely fitted to the well-established railways that run all through the nation, together with these from the Luhansk area all the way down to Crimea. Two Russian armored trains that noticed service in Ukraine, the Baikal and the Amur, beforehand served within the Southern Military District as of 2015. They have been dusted off after relative inactivity to move automobiles and personnel, and to restore broken railways. In August 2016, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu used these similar trains in operations associated to the Donbas War.

Russia deployed two extra high-tech armored trains to Ukraine theater known as the Yenisei in 2022 and the Volga in 2023. These trains are manned by Railway Troops, who, in keeping with the TASS information company, have been the “first in the zone of a special operation in Ukraine to launch drones for surveillance without stopping the train.” These trains are outfitted with heavy 20 mm metal armor and an assortment of weaponry and missiles together with 23 mm anti-aircraft weapons, machine weapons, anti-tank missiles and smoke grenades, and might be configured as wanted.