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Massive explosion destroys the only bridge between Russia and Crimea in suspected attack by Ukrainian saboteurs (Kerch Bridge)
MAIL ONLINE ^ | 8 October 2022 | ALASTAIR LOCKHART and WILL STEWART

Posted on 10/08/2022 1:11:46 AM PDT by dennisw

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1 posted on 10/08/2022 1:11:46 AM PDT by dennisw
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The rail bridge from Russia to the Crimean peninsula can be seen engulfed in flames on the right, while a huge section of the road bridge has collapsed into the sea  

Dropped span....Impressive!

2 posted on 10/08/2022 1:13:35 AM PDT by dennisw
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Oh nos!

There goes putins “off ramp”!

Dont poke the uky!


3 posted on 10/08/2022 1:14:27 AM PDT by FreshPrince
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All three sets of socialists need to stop and go home.

Bidens

Putins

Zelenskis


4 posted on 10/08/2022 1:14:30 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Make that two dropped spans. Dropped from the same pylon. It is almost as if Ukies have acquired the engineering plans for Kerch. So they know just where to hit it.


5 posted on 10/08/2022 1:21:55 AM PDT by dennisw
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—”It was unclear if this may have been a suicide bomb in a truck but there have been no reports of incoming missiles. Some witnesses claimed there were two explosions .”

By the way, it is not so easy to enter the Crimean bridge

At the entrances there are stationary ST-6035 inspection radio-technical complexes of the Directorate of Departmental Security of the Russian Ministry of Transport. They are also check cars for explosives.

https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1578658153239306240

Security may have the day off for Putin’s birthday?


6 posted on 10/08/2022 1:24:14 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last messa)
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Mr Suicide Bomber groupie


7 posted on 10/08/2022 1:25:19 AM PDT by Long Jon No Silver (Rrily)
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Dammit, Ivan dropped his cigarette again


8 posted on 10/08/2022 1:31:33 AM PDT by Cronos
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It's a late birthday present for Putin! May it be Putin's last birthday!


9 posted on 10/08/2022 1:48:43 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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True, but they haul explosives all the time, they just needed some to trigger them, a small drone would do it with intelligence


10 posted on 10/08/2022 1:56:40 AM PDT by dila813
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Obviously the Russians blew it up themselves, because that’s what they do now.


11 posted on 10/08/2022 2:00:24 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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Doesn’t look very “destroyed” to me. Only half the roadway and the rail line is untouched.


12 posted on 10/08/2022 2:02:21 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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So are you volunteering to drive over that bridge?


13 posted on 10/08/2022 2:04:43 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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I stand corrected, there’s a tank car afire on the rail span.


14 posted on 10/08/2022 2:07:28 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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Just went and looked at it on Google Earth. This truck came from the Russian side, looks like it was headed westbound to Crimea.


15 posted on 10/08/2022 2:08:38 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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Maybe you can start handing out rewards to the families of cancer afflicted Ukazi suicide bombers like old Saddam did for Pali suicide bimbrs who killed Israeli soldiers. https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=129914&page=1?


16 posted on 10/08/2022 2:29:52 AM PDT by Long Jon No Silver (Rrily)
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A fuel tank caught on fire.


17 posted on 10/08/2022 2:42:29 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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Closeup of the rail span structure along the burned out tank cars shows warping. Not to say this is unrepairable, but it may take a while, depending on the heat damage.

Two sections of roadway on the westbound side have broken or bounced off their piers. Thats a couple of weeks job.

The Eastbound roadbed shows no significant damage as far as I can see. But who knows what is structurally wrong there.


18 posted on 10/08/2022 2:48:16 AM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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Maybe you can start handing out rewards to the families of cancer afflicted Ukazi suicide bombers

Right, Ukrainians defending themselves, bothers you, not Putin's imperialistic invasion of an independent neighboring country. Okay

19 posted on 10/08/2022 2:49:16 AM PDT by tlozo (Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees)
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To: Long Jon No Silver

Actually this sort of thing was SOP in the Soviet Union.
Years before the Kamikazes in fact.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_ramming


20 posted on 10/08/2022 2:51:58 AM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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