Up to 300 meters of rail tracks were damaged by an explosion on the Luhansk region's Popasna-Roty railway, which is used to deliver coal to the Vuhlehirsk thermal power plant, Hennadiy Moskal, Chairman of the Military-Civilian Administration of the Luhansk region, has said.

"The Popasna-Roty railway section was blown up in Ukraine-controlled territory of the Luhansk region, several kilometers from the contact line, after 2:00 a.m. today [June 12]. Obviously, the explosives were planted and detonated by the adversary's reconnaissance and sabotage group. The explosion occurred at the 5th or 6th kilometer of the railroad leading to Svitlodarsk [a town in Ukraine-controlled territory of the Donetsk region]. As a result, around 300 meters of railroad tracks were damaged," Moskal's press service reported on Friday.

This railroad is crucial to shipping coal from state-run enterprises Pervomaiskvuhillya and Lysychanskvuhillya to the Vuhlehirsk thermal power plant in Svitlodarsk, the governor said.

Repair brigades and specialists of Ukraine's State Emergency Situations Service are working at the site, he said. The repairs are being hampered by the fact that roads leading to the railway are mined in many places, he added.

Train services along this railroad section are expected to resume on Saturday, Moskal said.