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Key bridge linking Crimea to Russia hit by huge explosion
The Guardian ^ | 8th October 2022 | Peter beaumont

Posted on 10/07/2022 11:00:25 PM PDT by Cronos

The Kerch bridge from Russia to Crimea, a hated symbol of the Kremlin’s occupation of the southern Ukrainian peninsular, has been hit by a massive explosion on the span that carries railway traffic.

Images from the bridge showed a fiercely burning fire engulfing at least two railway carriages from a train on the bridge, accompanied by a vast column of black smoke.

The explosion, which witnesses said could be heard kilometres away, took place around 6am on Saturday while a train was crossing the bridge, although it was not immediately clear what caused it.

Some images appeared to show a second fire at some distance from the main blaze.

Later images also appeared to show part of road bridge that runs parallel with the train tracks had collapsed.

The bridge is both highly symbolic to Russia and an important logistical supply route for Russian forces in Crimea and in southern Russian-occupied Ukraine.

The Russian news service Tass said a fuel tanker was involved. “According to preliminary data, a fuel tank [railroad] car has been on fire at one of the sections of the Crimean bridge, shipping arches aren’t damaged, said Oleg Kryuchkov, an adviser to the Russian occupation head of the Crimea.

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To: buwaya

Were Japanese kamikazes attacking US warships “Satanic”?


61 posted on 10/08/2022 3:58:53 AM PDT by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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To: Paul R.

The means matters. If you found out a retarded child wearing a suicide belt blew the train, what would you think. Would the end justify the means. Why not drop humans strapped with high explosives. Or fire them from cannons


62 posted on 10/08/2022 4:00:10 AM PDT by Long Jon No Silver (Rrily)
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To: Paul R.

They were fanatics. And of course the aim of the suicide bomber is to gain maximum proximity. Do you approve of suicide bombing?


63 posted on 10/08/2022 4:03:00 AM PDT by Long Jon No Silver (Rrily)
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To: Long Jon No Silver

Yes.

I was very dismayed by those deaths, the same as if a Saddam Hussein’ Scud had hit a US barracks in GW1, but, our soldiers in either situation are a legitimate target.

Where the line is drawn should be at intentional targeting of civilians or wanton mass attacks / targeting of civilians. There is no evidence of that here.


64 posted on 10/08/2022 4:06:59 AM PDT by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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To: Long Jon No Silver

Those are not volunteers.


65 posted on 10/08/2022 4:08:01 AM PDT by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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To: Long Jon No Silver

Clarification: Those are not legally competent volunteers.


66 posted on 10/08/2022 4:10:29 AM PDT by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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To: Long Jon No Silver

While here you FReep, giving aid and comfort to basically the same system Reagan correctly identified as an evil empire, a system trying to crush its neighbor under false pretenses, under threat of nukes (from B4 this current invasion!) primarily for resource and strategic control.

Ends and means... huh! You are disgusting.


67 posted on 10/08/2022 4:17:49 AM PDT by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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To: Cronos

Key bridge links Georgetown and Rosslyn, VA.


68 posted on 10/08/2022 4:23:55 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: buwaya

For the same reason you listen to DID and CIA mockingbird press?


69 posted on 10/08/2022 4:24:06 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: buwaya

Method or tactic, in this case?

Question: In 2022,would it not be possible to trigger an explosive on the truck by GPS location?

What about a stealthy drone firing / launching a small, fast munition we likely would not see on these vids?


70 posted on 10/08/2022 4:25:11 AM PDT by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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To: Paul R.

Quite. It was a depraved system that recruited and indoctrinated young men explicitly committed to suicide. Everyone mixed up in all that was committing mortal sins daily.

There were much worse sinners of course, or so they appear to us. But the Catholic system does not go into such gradations. What’s the difference between a Kamikaze pilot and an SS Einsatzgruppen soldier? Dante would doubtless put them in different circles of hell, but Dante was just writing theological fiction.


71 posted on 10/08/2022 4:29:28 AM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: central_va

I was not aware the USA had recently illegally annexed VA.


72 posted on 10/08/2022 4:31:08 AM PDT by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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To: Paul R.

The disgusting one is you. Near the end of hours second term, Reagan himself proclaimed they were no longer an evil empire right in red square. It’s on film. And he was speaking of the USSR not Russia. They haven’t been communist for over 30 years.
Try to keep up sport. The home of communism today is DC.


73 posted on 10/08/2022 4:32:07 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: Paul R.

It’s perfectly possible that some other means was used. Maybe some Ukrainian commandos installed demolition charges. Maybe someone stuck a bomb in an ammo truck. Maybe there was a boat - the Russians did find a semi-submersible remotely piloted Ukrainian boat some weeks ago, washed up near Sebastopol. Too early to say.


74 posted on 10/08/2022 4:33:59 AM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: Long Jon No Silver

I’m thinking a remote controlled bomb slipped into an ammo truck. Same way they murdered Dugins daughter in Moscow.


75 posted on 10/08/2022 4:34:29 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: buwaya

True… it’s amazing how often people think Dante is scriptural.


76 posted on 10/08/2022 4:38:03 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: DesertRhino

They are less communistic economically but the 22-year dictator still uses communistic Cheka-NKVD-KGB-GPU-et al methods to maintain power and wealth. It must disappoint you greatly when victorious Ukrainian troops pull down Hammer and Sickle flags.


77 posted on 10/08/2022 4:39:37 AM PDT by Monterrosa-24 (To the barricades !!!)
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To: buwaya
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html From the video at the UK Daily Mail home page/front page. A medium sized truck detonated. IOW it was a truck bomb that took out Kerch. At least for a while. Unfortunately one roadway is intact.
78 posted on 10/08/2022 4:39:50 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: Paul R.

One man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist.


80 posted on 10/08/2022 4:52:36 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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