So, roughly 18 months until P-Day?
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A Brexit benefit?
It’s a Special Resurfacing Operation.
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People are trying to free the Island.
That’s nonsense. Its a peninsula!
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Recall that in exchange for giving up it’s nukes, Ukraine was guaranteed, by treaty, that it’s territorial sovereignty would be respected. All the nuclear powers of Europe and as well as the United States and the Russian Federation signed on.
The invasion and annexation of Crimea in 2014 broke the treaty.
I think Ukraine would be justified in acquiring some form nuclear deterrent~
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The Budapest Memorandum is not a treaty.
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was it mined in some designer fashion
was it ignited by a drone momento
post edit the vibe…
Here’s an interest Twitter thread on the consequences of the bridge damage – and the difficulty of Russian logistics in general when it comes to fixing infrastructure.
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As opposed to the deliberate targeting of civilians for torture, rape, murder and mass bombings, I guess? I suppose they deny that those things are happening at all. Still it’s weird - like someone firing a gun into a crowd and then being outraged when the crowd jostles him trying to run for their lives…
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Or the bully being offended when his victim fights back.
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“The Russians no longer have a railway distribution system to deliver it to jets, tanks & trucks.”
except, as mentioned above, they’ve already reopened the bridge to car and train traffic
Light traffic has resumed on Russia’s only bridge to Crimea, hours after a huge blast brought down sections of the roadway… The railway part of the bridge - where oil tankers caught fire - has also apparently reopened.
On Saturday evening, Russia’s foreign ministry published a video, seemingly showing cars using the bridge.
it’s much easier when you’re not at all concerned about safety. it’ll be… interesting… to see whether it actually holds up over the next couple weeks
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Not a treaty, so did they write it just to be frivolous? (Hell, maybe they did…)
Just like the Moskva had about 5 layers of missile defense systems, all of which failed.
Russia’s level of getting things done successfully is much less than people (including me) thought it was.
Military dolphins are a thing. The US Navy also has them, based in San Diego. Poor dolphins.
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Russian officials named a 25-year old Krasnodar man, Samir Yusubov, as the owner of the truck, and said an older relative, Makhir Yusubov, was the driver.
An opinion is that it was a maritime drone
The link to the “mysterious boat”
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My guess is that they put a small detonator on a truck of explosives that was already filled with explosives being sent to the front… That would seem to be the best way to leverage a small number of special operatives and equipment. The fact that it blew up next to a train full of tank cars was either lucky or somebody having the truck under observation. Hopefully the steel bridge structure under the train was sufficiently weakened by the fire to prevent fully loaded trains from crossing the bridge.
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The Russian army uses railways for long distance transport.
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