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Everything Is Blowing up Roses, Vital Antonovsky Bridge Cut {kherson bridge supplying Putin's army is blown up}
PJ media ^ | 22 Aug 22 | Stephen Green

Posted on 08/23/2022 8:42:08 AM PDT by Cronos

Antonovsky Bridge, one of the Russian Army’s lifelines into occupied Kherson, was effectively knocked out of action in a perfectly timed missile strike — just one of many developments on an explosive day in the Ukraine War.

What made the strike so timely was the presence of multiple Russian ammo trucks, headed north with supplies for troops in the Kherson region that Kyiv has vowed to take back. The exploding ammo only added to the destruction.

https://mobile.twitter.com/lilygrutcher/status/1561720969630289925

https://mobile.twitter.com/PaulJawin/status/1561679383034830849?

About 10 trucks loaded with ammunition were driving across the bridge. It's probably the detonation of one of them.

Whether that was due to luck or extremely actionable intelligence doesn’t matter. The point is that Russia has lost a vital Dnipro River crossing. The Dnipro isn’t just a wide river, making it difficult to ford; it also features the large Kakhovka Reservoir, completely unsuitable for moving the supplies Russia needs. ...it could be that Sevastopol residents, skittish over other recent attacks, are reporting backfiring cars or the like as enemy action. If that’s the case, it would hardly be a positive indicator of local Russian morale.

There’s some indication that might be the case:

My take from these reports isn’t exactly heartening for either side.

Russian forces seem exhausted and have barely progressed, even under the cover provided by devastating artillery strikes, from their July 3 lines in the Donbas.

On the other side, Ukraine has had some luck in degrading Russia’s already poor logistics. While that’s helpful, Ukraine also seems to lack the manpower or firepower to launch a genuine counteroffensive, even in the less-heavily contested Kherson region.

Autumn rains will come soon, bogging down everything. Then the winter freeze.

If either side is going to make another big push this year, they’re running out of time to make it.

(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Russia
KEYWORDS: 1howcanthisbe; 2ithoughtrussiawon; genius; obamasflyoutmybutt; ontomoscow; putinfanssad; russiadefeated; stephengreen; ukraine; ukrainevictorious
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Putin needs to end this war.

He, Putin, has caused the deaths of thousands of Eastern Orthodox Slavic people

1 posted on 08/23/2022 8:42:08 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: Cronos
He, Putin, has caused the deaths of thousands of Eastern Orthodox Slavic people

LOL, but FReepers keep telling me Putin is a defender of conservative Christian values, and somehow he's fighting globalism.

2 posted on 08/23/2022 8:45:30 AM PDT by tlozo (Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees)
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To: Cronos
This man........thanks you for your support.
3 posted on 08/23/2022 8:45:35 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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Russian forces seem exhausted and have barely progressed

Routed Russian troops are fleeing westward through Bakhmut and Blahodatne, while confident and victorious Ukrainian troops are advancing westward from Donetsk Oblast to the Dnepr...

4 posted on 08/23/2022 8:49:14 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: tlozo
LOL, but FReepers keep telling me Putin is a defender of conservative Christian values, and somehow he's fighting globalism.

Putin loves globalism as long as he's the one in charge. Failing that, he'd settle for sharing that control with Xi. He couldn't give two craps about the WEF except to the extent he can use it as a boogeyman to steer some gullible opinions in the West. Including Christianity, which he just views as another tool of the state, quickly discarded when convenient for his Chechen mercenaries.

5 posted on 08/23/2022 8:50:15 AM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: BenLurkin

George Soros couldn’t have pulled off his warmongering plan without Vladimir Putin

so he thanks Russia for starting this unnecessary war


6 posted on 08/23/2022 8:52:44 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: kiryandil

It’s an ugly war between two ugly nations.


7 posted on 08/23/2022 8:54:05 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: canuck_conservative

I knew a guy years ago who told me the Republicans were responsible for Bill Clinton perjuring himself. His reasoning: because the Republicans did a government “shutdown”, the White House had to use interns like Lewinski to fetch pizza for Clinton. QED - the Republicans caused the Lewinsky scandal.


8 posted on 08/23/2022 8:56:59 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Cronos

They don’t have pontoon bridge equipment in Russia?......................


9 posted on 08/23/2022 8:57:56 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Cronos
The will NOT end this war until the people of Donetsk and Lugansk ARE FREE AND SAFE from attack by neo-Nazis and Ukrainian nationalists. Get that through your skull, you neocon, globalist baboon.

The Ukrainian military you support is STILL launching missiles and butterfly mines at the CIVILIANS in Donetsk. They are guilty of war crimes. But, it won't stop until the Russians assure their safety.

The ethnic Russian population in eastern Ukraine, with the help of Russia, IS LITERALLY fighting for its survival. They have been fighting a war of self-defense for eight years.

Hell was made for liars like you and those in the Biden regime and Deep State that caused this war.

10 posted on 08/23/2022 8:58:45 AM PDT by Kazan
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To: kiryandil

I see what you did there….


11 posted on 08/23/2022 9:00:32 AM PDT by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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12 posted on 08/23/2022 9:02:53 AM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: BenLurkin
It’s an ugly war between two ugly nations.

Exactly.

13 posted on 08/23/2022 9:03:17 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Kazan
But, it won't stop until the Russians assure their safety.

By leveling Ukrainian towns and cities, slaughtering the Ukrainian population, and occupying the country, Comrade Kazan?


14 posted on 08/23/2022 9:03:20 AM PDT by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: kiryandil
Routed Russian troops are fleeing westward through Bakhmut and Blahodatne, while confident and victorious Ukrainian troops are advancing westward from Donetsk Oblast to the Dnepr...

"Aie, yar! Every day, every minute there is something. Last night, according to the news-channels, they destroyed the main Spakum space-fleet for the tenth time. Today they are pursuing the remnants of what is said to have been destroyed. For months we have been making triumphant retreats before a demoralised enemy who is advancing in utter disorder." He made a sweeping motion with a podgy hand. It indicated disgust. "I am fat, as you can see. That makes me an idiot. You wish -?"

15 posted on 08/23/2022 9:03:59 AM PDT by null and void (they promise the jetsons but deliver the flintstones)
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To: Kazan

Breathe

Chillax a bit

Both things can be true


16 posted on 08/23/2022 9:04:35 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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They don’t have pontoon bridge equipment in Russia?......................

They don't have spoons, forks or straws, either.

17 posted on 08/23/2022 9:05:25 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Kazan

The neo nazis are on Putin’s side.

What do you think the Wagner group are?


18 posted on 08/23/2022 9:05:37 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: Kazan

And no butterfly mines are tossed into the Donbas except in kremlin propaganda.

Zelensky is an ethnic Russian speaker as was Poroshenko.


20 posted on 08/23/2022 9:08:46 AM PDT by Cronos
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