Kerch bridge has another accident

Tonight, in darkness, a 40 or 50 foot span of the Kerch bridge connecting Russia to Crimea suddenly dropped into the water. The Russian Governor of the Kerch province describes the incident as an accident and says 1 person is dead and another one hurt. Witnesses not employed by the Russian authorities are reporting on Social Media there was an explosion. Earlier today Russia fired upon both aerial and marine drones passing by or going to Sevastopol. There was footage posted of Russia shooting at a marine drone, but no evidence was posted by Russia showing it being hit. The timing of the 'accident' at the Kerch bridge suggests the target of the marine drone may not have been the Russian Navy base at Sevastopol but the Kerch bridge.
The sun is just coming up there and some photos of the missing span are starting to appear on Twitter and Telegram.
You are entitled to vote. Was the cause of the accident shoddy Russian construction? Or did an attack drone slip by the recently added defenses to the Kerch bridge which Russia had claimed made it invulnearble to any attack. laugh
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It now seems that by blowing up a span of Russia's bridge to Kerch, Ukraine a major world catastrophe was averted by Ukraine. Russia had planned to detonate the explosives the Russians had placed on the roof of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station this week. It was anticipated that much fall out would drift over Russian occupied Crimea. Although this was considered by the Russian occupiers to be less important than bringing the Ukrainian offensive to a grinding halt, still their were plans and arrangements being made to evacuate those military dependents living near Sevastopol via buses going over the Kerch Bridge. The sudden damaging of a support column and the temporary loss of some bridge spans has placed the plan to destroy the offensive while also contaminating Europe (and Crimea) with nuclear fallout in a delayed status until the bridge is repaired.

The IAEE was finally able to conduct a brief inspection and of the facility confirmed this week those containers over the reactor buildings are indeed high explosives. The on the ground Russian military commander insisted their presence is just a temporary storage of no importance.

Much is being made of the presnce of Wagner forces in their new base camps in northern Belarus. Although Poland speculates maybe it is to push against Poland, it is more probable they are readying for an attack against Latvia so as to split NATO ground forces in two once the attack order is given. A new supply of Russian tanks and some artillery was delivered to the Wagner camps in Belarus yesterday.


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The Crimean Bridge the bridge spans the Strait of Kerch between the Taman Peninsula of Krasnodar Krai and the Kerch Peninsula of Crimea. Appranitly several unmanned, explosive-carrying amphibious vehicles, or sea drones, that were directed to the bridge and then detonated from beneath the roadway.
The Kerch Bridge, also known as the Crimean Bridge, was built by Russia so it could access part of Russia Crimea. It is nearly 12-mile crossing, also known as the Kerch Bridge, is the longest in Europe, cost $3.7 billion.
In October last year, the bridge was damaged in a powerful blast, with Russian officials saying the explosion was caused by a truck that blew up while crossing the bridge.
The Crimean peninsula was an important economic and infrastructural that had ties with Ukraine defending the Black Fleet, however cultural ties were much stronger with Russia than with Ukraine, and Crimea had been the site of major military bases from Tsarist times on, having at that time it became a symbol of Imperial Russian military power against the Ottoman Turks.
So bull shit America and the Nazi in Ukraine Oblast still peddele should be seen for what it is bullshit.
Upon liquidation of the okrugs in 1937–1938, Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Odesa, and Kharkiv oblasts were each split into four additional oblasts (Zhytomyr Oblast, Kamianets-Podilsky Oblast (later Khmelnytskyi), Mykolaiv Oblast, Poltava Oblast). Just before World War II, the Donetsk Oblast was split into Stalino Oblast and Voroshylovhrad Oblast and the Kirovohrad Oblast was created out of portions of Kyiv, Mykolaiv and Odesa oblasts. During World War II with advent of the German occupation of Ukraine by Nazi Germany. The Ukraine SSR Contitution was ratified in 1936 and Ukraine remained bound to the Russian Federation & its Bill of Rights by virtue of division seven of Ukraine own constitution.

However the Nazi deployed fighters in 1994 starting the current conflict that was then fueled by America. Relations Nazi's in Ukraine and Russia rapidly deteriorated in 2014 after the Western-backed coup in Kiev and the onset of hostilities in Donbass where the Nazi held thousands of civilians hostage that were been used as human shields up until Donbass Nazi surrendered.
In 1917 after the October Revolution Lenin sent Antonov's expeditionary group to invade Ukraine. Soviet historiography viewed the Bolshevik victory in 1921 as the liberation of Ukraine from occupation by the armies of Western and Central Europe (including that of Poland). Conversely, modern Ukrainian historians consider it a failed war of independence by the Ukrainian People's Republic against the Bolsheviks. The conflict was complicated by the involvement of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine, non-Bolshevik Russians of the White Army, and the armies of the Second Polish Republic, Austria-Hungary, and the German Empire, among others. When Hitler's legions invaded Ukraine many there saw joining the Nazi armies as the best way of ridding themselves of the hated Russians from the USSR. It almost worked. However the USSR counter-attacked and forcibly conscripted many Ukrainians to fight against the Nazis. With the Nazi threat vanquished Stalin's goons began rounding up Ukrainian men, women and children and forcibly deported them from Ukrainian lands or using them as slaves. There were many years of intentional mass starvation of the people of Ukraine. Hatred of the Soviet occupiers continued right up until the final days of the USSR. On 24 August 1991 The Supreme Soviet granted total independence to the Ukrainian SSR. On 1 December 1991 a national referendum resulted in 90% of the voters indicating they wanted nothing to do with the USSR. On 2 December 1991 Russian President Boris Yeltsin recognized Ukraine as a totally independent soverign country. The USSR itself finally dissolved by 26 December 1991, On December 4, 1994 in return for Ukraine handing over to Russia some 2,000 nuclear weapons the USSR had left behind on Ukraine's soil, the Russian Federation, the United States, and the United Kingdom “reaffirmed their obligation to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence” of each of Ukraine. Also that year a lease arrangement was agreed to which provided for the continued presence of a Russian Navy base inside Ukraine's Crimea territory in the city called Sevastapol. In 2013 Ukraine notified Russia that due to inflation in 2014 Ukraine would be raising the rent fee for the land of the naval base by (US) $300,000 in 2014. At that time Ukraine had no real army and had considered all of the surrounding countries to be friendly trade partner nations. Russian President Putin then decided simply invading Ukraine and seizing Crimea and portions of the Donbas would be a more fun thing to do, so in 2014 he did. Construction of the Kerch bridge into Russian occupied Criema was begun soon afterwards. Although it still had no real army to speak of Ukraine refused allow Russia to steal it's land and in 2022 Putin ordered a (failed) Special Military Operation to seize Kieve, execute the democratically elected President of Ukraine and install a pro-Russian government. Almost 230,000 Russian soldiers have died thus far in the course of the failed Special Military Operation.
Because the loss of the Kerch bridge seems to be what is preventing Russia from detonating the explosives at the nuclear plant the world should expect many more spans of the Kerch bridge to fall into the Black Sea.
As an aside

Ukraine's army tanks have reached the concrete Dragon's Teeth at 44.448, 35.929 today. It was anticipated that the fields in front of those Russian defense anti-tank obstacles there would be mined, but they were not, and no Russian soldiers were found to be manning the nearby trenches immediately behind the anti-tank obstacles. However the Russians did leave some mines and booby traps in the empty trenches themselves. The army of Ukraine continues to slowly advance. This is the first of the recently constructed Russian defensive constructions to be reached.
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