Russia has recorded 242 publicly documented sabotage incidents in 2026 through November 6, according to InformNapalm Fire, already exceeding the 239 recorded across 2024 and 2025 combined. The count excludes drone and missile strikes, which the database tracks separately.
The Five-Year Rise
The year-by-year count shows a steep acceleration: 2022 had 35 incidents, 2023 had 53, 2024 had 110, and 2025 had 129. Through November 6, 2026 has already reached 242.
That puts this year's count 87.6% above the whole of 2025, before 2026 is over. Across the five years, Fire has logged 569 incidents in this category, and the 2026 tally is nearly seven times the 2022 figure.
These are publicly known incidents entered after open-source checks, not an estimate of every act that has taken place. Recent cases can reach the database later because they take time to assess. Even with that lag, the recorded rise is sharp.
What Is Being Counted
Fire's sabotage category covers incidents such as fires at railway relay cabinets and military enlistment offices, damage to telecom towers and other infrastructure, and publicly reported underground activity inside Russia. It excludes Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory and does not fold drone or missile strikes into the tally.
The distinction is important. The separate oil and gas incident count includes strikes as well as sabotage; it cannot be added to this one or treated as the same measure. The record of disruption on Russian territory is narrower, and its growth is striking.
Nor does a sabotage entry identify who organised it. InformNapalm records the event; attributing an individual case to Ukrainian intelligence or any other group requires separate evidence. The pattern does not justify claiming credit on someone else's behalf.
The Kremlin's Vulnerability
Moscow has made sabotage in Europe part of its campaign against countries supporting Ukraine. At the same time, publicly documented sabotage inside Russia has climbed year after year.
Those are distinct issues, but they expose the same problem for the Kremlin: infrastructure it relies on is increasingly vulnerable, and policing a vast country against dispersed acts of disruption carries its own cost.