Hiding in the woods and swamps, the partisans inflicted heavy damage to German supply lines and communications, disrupting railway tracks, bridges, telegraph wires, attacking supply depots, fuel dumps and transports, and ambushing Axis soldiers. In one of the most successful partisan sabotage actions of the entire Second World War, the so-called Asipovichy diversion of 30 July 1943, four German trains with supplies and Tiger tanks were destroyed.
The partisans concealed in forests and swamps inflicted significant damage on German supply lines and communications by disrupting railway tracks, bridges, telegraph wires, attacking supply depots, fuel dumps, and transports, and ambushing Axis soldiers. The Asipovichy diversion of July 30, 1943, was a successful partisan sabotage operation that destroyed four German trains carrying supplies and Tiger tanks.