Posted on 10/10/2022 6:50:49 AM PDT by Red Badger
Ukraine poked the Russian bear on Saturday by blowing up the Kerch Bridge from Russia to Crimea.
According to Russian news agency Tass, an explosion occurred in early Saturday morning on one of Putin’s prestige projects and Europe’s longest bridge, which connects Russia and Crimea.
“An object believed to be a fuel storage tank has caught fire on the Crimean Bridge, but the viaduct’s navigable arches sustained no damage, an aide to the head of Crimea, Oleg Kryuchkov, said on Saturday,” according to the news outlet.
“According to preliminary information, a fuel storage tank is on fire… Navigable arches were not damaged. It is too early to speak about causes and consequences. Work to extinguish the blaze is underway,” Kryuchkov wrote in his Telegram channel.
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Crimean Bridge, also known as Kerch Strait Bridge or Kerch Bridge, is a pair of parallel bridges, one road, one rail, spanning the Kerch Strait between the Taman Peninsula of Krasnodar Krai in Russia and the Kerch Peninsula of Crimea in Ukraine.
After annexing Crimea at the start of the Russo-Ukrainian War, Russia built the bridge. It is the longest bridge ever constructed in Russia, at 19 kilometers (12 miles), and the longest bridge in all of Europe.
Besides transportation, Russia’s motivation for building the bridge was to legitimize its territorial claims in Crimea.
Russia later blamed the blast on a fuel truck explosion.
The Ukrainian Defense Department later threatened more attacks on Russia’s infrastructure following the blast.
On Monday Russia responded.
Ukraine was hit by over 70 Russian missile attacks.
A Kyiv transformer station was hit by a Russian missile.
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This looks really bad. A park in Kyiv.
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Putin is warning of more attacks.
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NBC News reported:
Russia unleashed a barrage of deadly attacks on cities across Ukraine on Monday, hitting the heart of the country’s capital as part of a wave of strikes against civilians and infrastructure not seen since the very earliest days of the war.
From Lviv in the west to Kharkiv in the northeast, missiles tore through rush hour traffic and into energy facilities, in retaliation for a blast that damaged a key bridge to the annexed Crimean Peninsula over the weekend.
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced in a televised address that his military had launched a series of strikes on Ukraine’s “energy, military command and communications facilities,” telling his security council it was revenge for what he called Kyiv’s long track record of “terrorist” actions, including the bridge blast.
time to unleash hell on Russia far inside its borders!
Yup... That’s surely going to stop the Ukrainians from rolling over fresh, unproven and terrified Russian conscripts.
Nonsense. The russkies, and the CCP, don’t pay $500 for a hammer. When its reported US military budget is 50x or 100x greater than russia’s, a huge part of that is the graft, ‘earmarks’ to payoff donors, and grossly overpriced equip.
My apologies sir.
Certainly you jest. Losing your energy grid and trains/railways/stations will just about put an end to offensive operations. Ukraine will be too busy helping civilians get close to bondfires to keep warm.
Putin is nice and warm in his bunker... But every now and then he has eat something... It’s just a matter of time before he chokes on something he shouldn’t have eaten.
New leadership in Russia will bring this conflict to an end and as soon as Russians who are losing their sons and daughters in the Ukraine figure that out, the quicker Putin will choke.
“So far and for the most part, the Ukraine has not attacked Russian soil. They have been warned by NATO an US, /to keep the parameters of war within the Ukraine. Russia has warned all the parties to the conflict, e.g., the best New World Order/NATO/US that any attacks on Russia Soil, retaliations would be on a scale of 10X as has been popular in war for over a 100 years.”
moscow drone attacks....
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