Oct. 8, 2022 was right after the original attack. Later, I think in Jan. or early Feb. Putin went to the bridge to celebrate the reopening of all 4 traffic lanes and the fact it had been repaired so quickly. It was also said the 2 railway lines would not be fully repaired until Sept. 2023. That fire must have seriously weakened concrete and rebar. I have no idea why a March 16, 2023, date appeared on the paper you saw. Perhaps a recap because Ukraine may be getting ready to attack Crimea, or perhaps because of the drone attack near Crimea so recently.
How Kerch bridge was destroyed. My theory.
This was a two prong attack, with British and US intel getting the architecture blueprints and designing the plans to take it down. Ukrainians carried it out.
#1 — Railway bridge was more crucial. Rail is how the Russian army gets supplies. The train was stalled and motionless on the Kerch Bridge. Someone must have been paid off. Some missiles hit the fuel laden railcars that melted and warped the support structure.
Great video of the fuel laden railcars on fire https://twitter.com/Euan_MacDonald/status/1578622084783124480
#2 Simultaneously, hundreds of pounds of C4/or similar were detonated under the roadway of Kerch. The architectural plans showed the most vulnerable points to place the C4. They came in by boat. This succeeded in dropping two bridge spans into the water. Or was it three?
#3 no truck bomb was involved
Great video of the fuel laden railcars on fire https://twitter.com/Euan_MacDonald/status/1578622084783124480
The March 16, 2023 date was for that’s day’s weather forecast.
The DailyMail.com web server included it on the standard page header as it displayed the article published on October 8, 2022.
My mistake was I failed to notice that all of the earlier replies to this thread were from October, 2022.
I will pay attention to that going forward.
Sorry for injecting noise into the discussion.