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Looks like UA struck the Crimean Bridge.......


trying to figure out what actually hit it.....

BudmanTX said:

trying to figure out what actually hit it.....

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"Today's attack on the Crimean bridge is a special operation of the SBU and the navy," the security service source said. The strike was carried out using waterborne drones, according to the same source.

2 strikes.....from what.....best guess under water sea drone.....is a probability......

Putin: Defense Ministry is preparing a response to the senseless terrorist attack in Kyiv on the Crimean bridge
The Russian Defense Ministry will respond to Kyiv on the terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting of the Russian Security Council on the terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge.

“What happened is another terrorist attack of the Kyiv regime. The crime is senseless, without any significance, because the Crimean bridge has not been used for military transportation for a long time. And cruel, because people died today. The answer will be. The Ministry of Defense is preparing a corresponding proposal,” Vladimir Putin said. Live was on telegram channel of the Kremlin .

Putin said he was waiting for concrete proposals on the security of the Crimean bridge
Russian President Vladimir Putin is waiting for concrete proposals on the security of the Crimean bridge from ministries and law enforcement agencies. He stated this during a meeting of the Security Council dedicated to the terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge on July 17.

“This is the second terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge. I expect specific proposals from you on how to improve its security,” Putin addressed the meeting participants. The broadcast was conducted in the telegram channel of the Kremlin. The relevant instructions were given to the FSB, the Investigative Committee, and other law enforcement agencies. They need to get to the bottom of what happened.

The terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge took place on the night of July 17. As a result of a drone strike from Ukraine, a family of Belgorod residents who were traveling to Crimea by car died. Their daughter was injured and is in the hospital. Vladimir Putin ordered that the orphaned child and his relatives be given all the necessary assistance .


The State Duma appreciated the chance of the Russian Guard to receive the equipment of PMC "Wagner"
The National Guard will not receive the equipment of the Wagner PMC. This was stated by the head of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy Alexander Khinshtein, commenting on the bill on the right of the Russian Guard to have heavy equipment.

“We are talking about the right of the Russian Guard to have heavy (and not only) military equipment. There is no talk of any transfer of equipment from PMCs to the Russian Guard, ”said Alexander Khinshtein in a conversation with “Newspaper.ru". Khinshtein is one of the authors of the draft law.

The Wagner rebellion ended on June 24th. After that, the units left for Belarus , as did the founder of the military company Yevgeny Prigozhin. On June 27, the Ministry of Defense noted that part of the heavy equipment from the Wagner PMC will become the property of the department . However, it will not pass into the possession of the National Guard, Khinshtein also noted on June 27, 360 TV channel reports .

People's militia is being created in Belarus
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko signed the law "On the People's Militia". This was reported by the press service of the head of state.

“The document creates the legal basis for the voluntary participation of citizens in ensuring martial law introduced in the administrative-territorial (territorial) units of the republic,” the document says. It is published on the official website. President of Belarus .

After the suppression of the armed rebellion of the founder of Wagner PMC Yevgeny Prigozhin, Russian President Vladimir Putin offered the Wagner PMC fighters to choose: sign a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense, return home or go to Belarus. Prigozhin's army went to Belarus . Alexander Lukashenko said that the fighters of the Wagner PMC will defend the interests of Belarus in the same way as the Belarusian army.

What is known about the crashed Su-25 attack aircraft.
Su-25 attack aircraft crashed in the Sea of Azov near Yeysk (Krasnodar Territory) during a training flight. URA.RU provides basic information known to this hour.

• The incident happened in front of the guests. The attack aircraft fell in the Shcherbinovsky district of the Kuban. Eyewitnesses reported that the plane crashed in the water, after which rescuers quickly flew to the crash site.
• The pilot managed to eject before falling, but his life jacket did not work, because of which the parachute began to pull him to the bottom. The pilot broke his legs during splashdown and began to sink. The fishermen got the man. For 15 minutes, doctors fought for the life of the pilot, but they failed to save him.
• The preliminary cause of the plane crash is engine failure. The Southern Military District noted that the Su-25 attack aircraft crashed during a training flight. Specialists from the Ministry of Defense and special services arrived to find out the reasons for the crash.

‘The same ones were used on Sevastopol three months ago’ What a source close to Ukraine’s Defense Ministry told Meduza about the latest Crimea bridge attack
The July 17 Crimea bridge explosion was a joint operation between the Ukrainian Security Service and the Ukrainian Navy, according to a source close to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s Main Intelligence Directorate who spoke to Meduza on condition of anonymity. This was previously reported by the Ukrainian outlets Ukrainska Pravda and RBC Ukraine.

According to Meduza’s source, the attack involved “the same type of underwater drones as the ones used on Sevastopol about three months ago.” He said that Russia’s troops in the region don’t have the equipment necessary to detect drones from a long distance and that as a result, they didn’t detect the ones used in this attack until it was too late.

“The observers who were on duty overnight tried to hit the drones with large-caliber firearms and machine guns but were unable to,” he said.

The source also said that one of the bridge’s pillars was damaged. The Russian authorities have not confirmed this; the Russian Transport Ministry reported earlier that the roadway was damaged but noted that previous media reports about damaged pillars had not been verified. The claim has also not been confirmed by independent sources.

Meduza’s source noted that while a damaged span can be “replaced by a new one,” damage to a pillar would be a more serious issue. “But the main thing is that […] if you trace the maritime border along the territory between Russia and Ukraine, then the [damaged] pillar, the 145th one, is located behind this border, on the [internationally recognized] territory of Ukraine,” he said.

The latest explosion to rock the Crimean bridge occurred early on the morning of July 17. The Russian authorities reported that the blast killed a married couple from the Belgorod region who were driving over the structure. Their daughter reportedly sustained a serious head injury and was sent to an ICU in Krasnodar. The Russian Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case for terrorism.

Vehicle traffic over the bridge was suspended after the explosion. The Russian authorities have advised citizens planning trips from Russia to Crimea to go through the Russian-annexed territories in mainland Ukraine and have temporarily lifted curfews in those territories to facilitate travel.

Earlier on Monday, a Ukrainian military intelligence spokesperson called the Crimean Bridge a “superfluous structure.” A Ukrainian Security Service representative said the agency will provide more details about the explosion “after [Ukraine’s] victory.”

They have other problems too, like worn out gun barrels, shorter ranges, ammo shortages and poorly trained people using antiquated equipment resulting in poor accuracy. The Ukrainians are using western counter battery radars and drones to decimate the Russian guns and counter battery radars while giving cover to their troops who are clearing mines and breaking through. Counter battery radars and drones can also protect those troops from mortar fire and with drones can protect them from small arms fire from the trenches in front by bombing them with grenades. Accurate artillery fire and drones will reduce Ukrainian casualties as they methodically work their way through the defensive lines until they breakthrough into a blitzkrieg.

Blowing up the dam cut off water to Crimea and will force many Russians out, if they can get out. Crimea was the Russian vacation land and with heat waves they will miss it for a long time.


Russian tourist chats are full of panicked Russians who did not get the vacation they desired.

I've translated some of their posts below.

"Important information for those who are going to get out of Crimea by land route. The most important thing is to stock up on the necessary amount of water. Local "entrepreneurs" decided to take advantage of this situation and in order to enrich themselves increased the price by 8-10 times!

Being on the territory of Crimea download offline maps, on the territory of Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk regions, you can use mobile communication only if you have a SIM-card Phoenix, but there is an option to buy it right in the queue in front of the checkpoint, there they sell them for 2000 rubles.

The situation with toilets is also miserable, free toilets at petrol stations have been closed, they justify themselves by saying that the influx of people is too large, you can make an agreement for 500 roubles, for children, pregnant women, disabled people and participants of the SMO the price is 400 roubles".

"The first border has been passed. Customs. We fuelled up at the last Lukoil petrol station, but there are no toilets there. There are big traffic jams in the opposite direction, towards Rostov. Documents and passports and child's birth certificate were checked at the checkpoint. At the customs there is a toilet and a lot of people on foot with their bags, their bags are checked there like at the airport. For those with cars, only the documents."

"Why didn't they say they guarantee safety on the land road to Crimea, if they can't protect the Crimean bridge, and it's a 50/50 ride there?"

"Yes, Megaphone [cellphone service provider] is completely dead, it doesn't show anything."

"Just yesterday I was thinking what a moron one should be to go on holiday to Crimea now.
Well, now the holiday will definitely be remembered when they go home through the front.
They are disrupting the logistics of our military with traffic jams, stupid faggots."

"One thing that annoys me is that after the first time, the competent authorities swore that ordinary people have nothing to fear, that now combat dolphins, medusas, shrimps and plankton guard the bridge 50 hours a day. F**k, how did that happen? !!!!!! Did they screw up again? !!!!!!!!"

"Are there gas stations along the road in the new territories?"

Sure

Bandits, too, not just gas stations".

If Crimea is cut off and largely evacuated of Russians or their sympathizers, it could fall to the Ukrainians faster than many expect, Vlad can't have many troops there now and needs them on the extended front. Once cut off by land and the Kerch bridge they are pretty well fucked, especially if the Ukrainians can mount an offensive drive from Kherson to the throat of the Crimea peninsula, preventing the Russians trapped in the south of Ukraine from getting back in. The Russians should be busy enough in Zaporizhya and trapping them there might keep the nuclear power plant from getting blown up. The Russian army is cracking from top to bottom the top command is in disarray and the army is driven from the top and thus thrown into confusion as generals and others are arrested or transferred. Those who replace them will be more loyal to Vlad than competent, it is bad timing for an army under attack with rock bottom morale teetering on the edge of collapse and catastrophe.

Bet there will be more than one toll booth along the way, "To help finance the war." naturally.

DIY-HP-LED said:

… The most important thing is to stock up on the necessary amount of water. Local "entrepreneurs" decided to take advantage of this situation and in order to enrich themselves increased the price by 8-10 times!

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Let's talk about Ukraine, bridges, and Russia....

DIY-HP-LED said:

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"Come on kids, let's go. We are going to visit a war zone, play in the sand on the beach and then get some ice cream."