The only negotiating strategy the Russians understand.
Hopefully this has severely compromised the structural integrity of the bridge.
Fingers crossed. It’s currently closed.
Got a good laugh out of this from Euronews:
Some Russian outlets also said that a Ukrainian drone was shot down over the bridge, and its debris fell onto the road.
HAHAHAHA. Seems like so much debris lands exactly on the target.
Just FYI, euronews is owned by a company heavily linked to Orban
Which is a pity, because before that it was quite good and the most pro-EU channel, now people will default to assign it less credibility just because it is linked to Orban, even if nothing changed. I just watch it knowing this and filter out the potentially fishy stuff (I’ve seen one case of an interview about Orban/Fico replaced with another halfway and an interview with Varoufakis where he was talking weird about Ukraine)
I still think it is better than Fox, CNN, etc
I think it’s like maybe “aljazeera” being owned by the Qatari government.
Like in general their journalism is very good and doesn’t seem changed. But when it’s things related to the owners directly you start to see soft bias.
Yeah I had heard that but in general I find them quite solid / mostly factual though I’m always conscious of it since hearing that.
That didn’t stop Russia from blocking it.
This makes the Combat Engineer in me smile
Combat engineered a foot up Putin’s ass
Bet they didn’t tell Trump about this one either lmao
They wouldn’t want to risk his friend Vladimir getting the info.
If it succeeded, then that’s pretty much certain
The SBU said the operation "lasted for several months, with agents mining the “supports of this illegal construction.”
“And today, without inflicting any civilian casualties, the first explosive was activated at 4:44 a.m.,” the SBU said.
Emphasis mine. Genuinely curious how many more there are and what they’re waiting for.
While I obviously would like to hope that there’s a bunch more down there, I have a hard time seeing a situation where it would be preferable to alert your enemy to their presence rather than detonate them all at once.
I rather think he’s alluding to the possibility that there are more to make russians spend more resources looking or alluding to that this can/will happen again.
Does Russia have the ability or even surviving men with the skill to remove them?
I wish they didn’t, but they most likely do.
The statistics from the past 1-1.5 years has shown that russia has done a decent job at protecting the most experienced/specialised soldiers, while using fresh, unspecialised troops for the meat waves.
If they have eyes on it, attack it when it’s being repaired is all I can come up with, but given their emphasis on no civilian casualties that might not line up properly.
Still waiting for a Taurus missile or something to knock down some pillars so we can see a whole span in the strait.
Until then, let’s hope this damage takes a long time to repair, and that they do the thing where they say it’s “repaired” but then a truck goes into the water a week later.
This is part of the road bridge.
