re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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he simplest explanation is that Ukraine blew the bridge.

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i dont think anyone here has said otherwise. What everyone is questioning is how it was launched, sea based drone, air based drone, missile, or truck bomb. and other question is where, From sea of Azov (which russia controls all ports within), from Taman (city on east east of Bridge, so infiltration units), or from Black sea (long range from Ukrainian cost, and long range from Ukraine merchant traffic, or 3rd party merchant from closer

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Running theory with the most chatter right now seems to be a sea-based drone.

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I think that makes the most sense. If you look at the bridge the automobile lanes are lower and closer to the water than the train section, so an explosion from something sea-based will do a lot more damage to the auto bridge. Ukraine probably would have targeted the train bridge otherwise.

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Ukraine probably would have targeted the train bridge otherwise.

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I suspect that the Kerch train bridge is more important to Russian war logistics than is the Kerch highway bridge, and the main reason that the highway bridge has been targeted (successfully twice now) is that it can be substantially damaged with a considerably smaller warhead. The design loads for the train bridge were probably a lot larger than the design loads for the highway bridge, so almost every part of the train bridge is more strongly-built, so it would require a much larger warhead to take it out. I.e., better to take the highway bridge out of operation for a while than to cause relatively minor, quickly-repairable damage to the train bridge.

It would be much stealthier and more deniable up use a trawler, of which there must be hundreds in the Black Sea at any given time.

from twitter...

Satellite view of the damaged Crimea bridge following this morning explosion

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You ever figure out which other countries are being actively invaded by a foreign power while the US sits idly by despite promising protection?

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Answered immediately. Youre weeks behind.

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Putin holds a televised meeting following the attack on the Crimea bridge. Will live tweets.

Given the two attacks on the Crimea bridge, I want concrete proposals on ensuring it's security - Putin

A terrorist act was carried out against the Crimea bridge - Putin

Russia's deputy PM tells Putin that one part of the road on the Crimea bridge is completely destroyed and will have to be rebuilt - Kommersant

Russian deputy PM tells Putin that by 15 September the traffic on one side of the road will reopen, while on the other side it will open by November 1 - TASS

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BREAKING: Russia's Defence Ministry is preparing proposals on the answer to the Crimea bridge attack, Putin says - TASS

"It was a senseless and cruel terrorist act by Ukraine and we will respond", Putin says

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Side note: I chuckle at how Putin says he will respond when Ukraine actually does something like this. You're at war and bomb cities nightly, how exactly are you going to "respond" with something different?

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Russians have assembled a group of more than 100 thousand servicemen near Kupiansk and Lyman, says the Speaker of the Eastern Group of Ukrainian Armed Forces Serhii Cherevatyi.

"A very powerful group is concentrated in the Lyman-Kupiansk direction now. There are more than 100,000 troops, more than 900 tanks, and 370 MLRS," says Cherevatyi.

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The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin stated today during a Televised Meeting that the Ministry of Defense is preparing a number of Response Options for the “Terrorist Attack by the Kyiv Regime” against the Kerch Striat Bridge and that he has also requested the Military to provide him with “Concrete Proposals” on the Future Security of the Bridge.

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People keep asking me why only the road part of the Kerch Bridge was attacked.

This wasn’t the case, the attack on the road bridge was just a lot more successful. The rail bridge was left with limited superficial damage.

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Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba is holding urgent consultations with partners at the UN headquarters after Russia's withdrawal from the "grain agreement".

The Minister announced this on Twitter.

"Russia threatens global food security. We are doing everything to save the Black Sea grain corridor," Kuleba wrote.

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Putin signed a decree on the nationalization of "Baltika" and "Danone" companies. They are now under the temporary management of the state-owned company Rosimushchestvo.

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Baltika is a brewery
Danone is a food company
Both are/were subsidiaries of Western companies

Rosimushchestvo is "The Federal Agency for State Property Management is a subdivision of the Russian Ministry of Economic Development"

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And a few more that posted while I was making the last post

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A Base for the Wagner PMC Group in the Town of Mol'kin in the Krasnodar Krai Region of Southwestern Russia will be Shutdown on July 30th with the remaining Fighters at the Base seen lowering the Wagner and Russian Flag at the Installation earlier today before leaving for New Facilities in Belarus.

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#Belarus ratified the agreement with #Russia on the creation of training and combat centers for military personnel.

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Azerbaijan allocates $7.6 million for humanitarian assistance to Ukraine, — Report.

It is reported that President Ilham Aliyev signed the corresponding order.

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That is a lot of workers.

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EDIT 2: the pilot reportedly drowned before rescuers were able to reach him.

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Good. That one loss is worth more to Russia than 5,000 conscripts getting slaughtered.