Russian authorities said that an explosion involving a truck on Saturday caused a fire and destroyed a section of a bridge linking Russia and Crimea. The bridge is regarded as a key supply route for Russian troops in southern Ukraine.
The Crimean Bridge – also called Kerch Strait Bridge or Kerch Bridge – is a structure 19 kilometers (12 miles) in length that passes across the Kerch Strait and links southern Russia to the Crimean Peninsula. The Kerch Strait links the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
The Epoch Times’ Mimi Nguyen reports that a truck exploded on the bridge around 6 a.m. local time. Russia’s National Anti-Terrorism Committee announced that the explosion caused a fire on the parallel rail section, where seven railway cars carrying fuel caught fire. The blast also caused a “partial collapse of two sections of the bridge.”
(16)#CrimeanBridge#Ukraine #Crimea #Крым pic.twitter.com/1dICPNMUIR
— Pierre Davide Borrelli (@PierreDBorrelli) October 8, 2022
A spokesperson from the Russian Highways State Company (Avtodor) told the TASS news agency that the movement of vehicles across the Crimean Bridge has been temporarily suspended, adding at the time that “personnel of the Russian emergencies ministry and the road service are working on the site to contain the blaze.” The fire has since been extinguished.
Russian President Vladimir Putin was informed about the explosion and he ordered the creation of a government panel to deal with the emergency.
While the bridge undergoes repair, a ferry service will be provided later on Saturday. Crimea’s Head Sergey Aksyonov said on Telegram, per TASS: “A ferry service is ready to be launched, it will start operating later today. We will announce a timetable later.”
(19)#CrimeanBridge#Ukraine #Crimea #Крым pic.twitter.com/PL7Io6wnET
— Pierre Davide Borrelli (@PierreDBorrelli) October 8, 2022
The Crimean Peninsula is key to sustaining Russia’s military operations in the south. If the bridge is made inoperable, it would make it significantly more challenging to ferry supplies to the peninsula. While Russia seized the areas north of Crimea early during the invasion and built a land corridor to it along the Sea of Azov, Ukraine is pressing a counteroffensive to reclaim them.
The explosion on the Crimean Bridge took place hours after multiple explosions early Saturday hit the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, which triggered a series of secondary explosions. The city’s mayor, Ihor Terekhov, said that the series of explosions were due to missile strikes aimed at the center of the city, which caused fires at one of Kharkiv’s medical institutions, as well as a nonresidential building. No reports of casualties were noted.
Bridge Explosion Is the ‘Beginning’: Ukraine Official
While no one has yet to explicitly claim public responsibility for the attack, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s aide, Mikhail Podoliak, posted on Twitter saying the explosion is “the beginning.”
“Crimea, the bridge, the beginning. Everything illegal must be destroyed, everything stolen must be returned to Ukraine, everything occupied by Russia must be expelled,” he wrote in English.
Podoliak previously in August threatened the bridge, telling The Guardian that the bridge is “an illegal construction and the main gateway to supply the Russian army in Crimea” and that “such objects should be destroyed.”
Another big question
Who leaked this surveillance videos so easily? pic.twitter.com/mryt3TzwiT
— Russiаn Market (@runews) October 8, 2022
Zelenskyy and other Ukrainian officials have also previously stated that Ukraine will use force to retake Crimea.
Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 after a vast majority of people in Crimea had voted in a referendum in March 2014 to reunite with Russia and secede from Ukraine. The vote took place after anti-Russia, pro-E.U. factions overthrew then-Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych’s government, which wasn’t against Russia, in an armed coup in February 2014.
The referendum was condemned by the United States and the European Union, with the latter saying in a statement (pdf) that the poll was “illegal and illegitimate.” Both the United States and the E.U. issued sanctions in response to the vote.
The Crimean Bridge, a $3.69 billion (230 billion rubles) project, was constructed following the annexation of Crimea. Russia opened the first part of the span to car traffic in May 2018. The parallel bridge for rail traffic opened the following year. Before the bridge’s existence, the Crimean Peninsula could only be reached from Russia by sea or air.
It was Russia’s only land link to the peninsula until Russian forces later seized more Ukrainian territory on the northern end of the Sea of Azov in heavy fighting, particularly around the city of Mariupol, earlier in 2022.
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Russia really blew it when they didn’t just go in and overwhelm Ukraine from the beginning. They were trying to be too nice.
Nice and also LEGAL…
According to what law?
Their countries law… Unlike the US
Might it have been the C_A?
Anything, in particular a bombing campaign against Deep Capital’s Clown World Faggot by Russia, now will be claimed to be a ” nuclear attack” that demands NATO retaliation. Bet on it. The flag is going up now.
Meanwhile in Chicago…keepin’ it real, yo.
Evil Putler don’t want none ah dis.
NATO Ex-commander Suggests Ukraine Army To Blow Up Crimea Bridge In Order To Unlink Moscow
https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/russia-ukraine-crisis/nato-ex-commander-suggests-ukraine-army-to-blow-up-crimea-bridge-in-order-to-unlink-moscow-articleshow.html
Celebrate, celebrate, another day of dying…
They are still mad at the Rus for expelling them from Khazaria in the 10th century. The Bolshevik Revolution was the first round of payback. Holodomor was round two. Ukraine offers round three for payback against the Rus.
The Khazars will fight the Rus to the last goyim and use unlimited fake EU and USD to do so. Imagine if the Khazars regained control of their ancestral homeland – they would then control 24% of world food exports and thus control the entire near east and north Africa and every corner of the world dependent upon these food exports.
From the Nile to the Dnieper.
https://cs.mcgill.ca/~rwest/wikispeedia/wpcd/wp/k/Khazars.htm
A frightening thought, indeed.
Not as frightening as them controlling our currency.
Plus,Stalin used them to mass murder millions and then to cover his own flank, had his Bolshevik executioners purged in turn.
Jewish Bolsheviks Murdered
66 Million In Russia
https://rense.com/general77/bols.htm
Seems to me to they already control most of the world, the hidden hand will have it’s day.
For those who have joined TBP in the last two years. Why we have so much global war.
It’s not as if degenerates really need an excuse. Zelensky will be there, choking on the sausage, with the worst of them.
The world of “Liberal Democracy” is that part of the world that is under the spell of witchcraft. Mass media (TV, internet, radio, newspapers, etc) are the means by which the spells are performed.
The West has become truly corrupt in mind, body, and spirit and should not exists in its present form.
Jews love Nazis.
They’ve broken your brain.
Are you sure his brain is broken?
When Hitler spoke of a Final Solution, he was referring to that same Final Solution as proposed by the Father of Zionism, Theodor Herzl – that the Jews would permanently leave Europe and emigrate en masse to Palestine. The SS ran a program from 1933 to 1939 that saw over 60,000 Jews leave Germany and arrive in Palestine. The SS even set up the fist Kibbutz and ran a network of these communal farms to teach city Jews the rural ways so they could survive once they arrived in Palestine. Hitler had actually offered the Jews an escape route so he could concentrate on eliminating his real racial enemy – the Slavs. The emigration program ended when WWII began and the SS had bigger things to do.
It is in reality the ones that think there were gas chambers and non-stop crematoriums that have the broken brains.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haavara_Agreement
Go back to storm front
You didn’t say what I wrote was incorrect. Just because one speaks Nazi facts does not make one a Nazi.
Only Russia is abiding by international law. Why?
I have given you an up vote but I think the answer is that to retain the support of the Global South (over 100 countries), especially China and India, it has been necessary for Russia to take baby steps and to give the West the time to expose themselves as the desperate evil bastards they really are. When the G.S. are totally convinced that Russia has no option but to go all in then the gloves will come off and the West will receive a rude awakening. That day is much nearer than it was 24 hours ago.
I agree, World events seen through the filter of western media requires careful and strategic steps. Sort of, let them fall on their own sword type of strategy. Allies will be the most important asset in the coming conflict. IMO
SABOTAGE! Two Communications Lines (GSM-R) Cut in Germany – Rail Services in Northern Germany Suspended
Two communication cables were cut at two different locations in Germany on Saturday. Sabotage is likely.
This forced long-distance rail services to be suspended entirely on Saturday in northern Germany.
It’s a start.
Well blowing up a small section of road traffic bridge is just another of those crippling blows to the russian invaders… It looked like the blast took out the lane going into Ukie and not the exit lane… so you can not enter but you can leave… reverse Hotel Commiefornia style…
Its mind numbing and beyond stupid these people are.
Nato – Take out the road bridge, just the right hand lane tho and we’ll cripple the russians.
Patriotic soldier in pink sequines – Sir, what about the rail bridge right next to it?
Nato – It’s illegal for ruskies to use that so leave it.
Let’s get Ron DeSantis on it. That bridge will be back up in three days!
To my knowledge, there’s not even a single republican calling bullshit on the GloboHomoSchlomo American Empire fuckery. Maybe Thomas Massie.
At a minimum they should say “enough money for Ukraine. Let’s take care of America.” That would garner support.
Republicans are part of this scam. The Uni-party agree on most things, the shtick is that they don’t for public consumption appearance only. Voting is like pissing into the wind at this point. American politics have gone way beyond parties and ideals. If we want to save America “Johnny Getch Your Gun”.
I wouldn’t bet on that. But he’ll fix a Ukrainian bridge.
I don’t know why, but I keep having this feeling that the Ukrainians are going to have a bad winter…….
Inshallah.
Maybe a really bright and warm one.
It’s getting king of hilarious –
first they don’t manage to take out all 4 pipes of Nordstream 1 and 2,
now they only took out one direction of the freeway part of the Kerch bridge, and the Russian Ministry of Transport is announcing that this evening the first trains are expected to cross the bridge again!
What an unbelievable failure again, for the US three-letter-agencies.
– Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation: Permission has been received for the movement of trains along the Crimean bridge. [After damage to the rail track had been repaired, and a first test train on the railway track was successful.]
– Car and bus traffic, with a full inspection procedure, has resumed on the non-collapsed lanes. Trucks are currently not allowed and need to use ferry service.
“The beginning” of another line in a smashed up hotel room. Hunter and Zelly order more strategic airlifts of Colombia’s finest. It is going to be a long week of MSM “press” appearances to keep the tax grift running.
ZATO’s conflicts aren’t meant to be won. But in the drug-fueled fog of war by choice, determining Putin’s full cooperation is difficult.
Lights out soon, folks.
They lack courage, so their attempts are underhanded and furtive. In open war, there will be insufficent mettle to endure.
Trains running in Germany after a few hours of outage for a quarter of the country, too. Talk about failure of a sabotage.
Could very well be Fridays for Future or some similar deluded party doing that.
They had similar sabotages happening decades ago, during the ‘Runway North’ protests at the Frankfurt airport, but that didn’t make headlines because no big outages as it seems they had enough fallback communication links.
Is there a reason why someone (who?) reports that a truck blew up the bridge and everyone accepts that as incontrovertible fact?
Upon watching the video, it looks to me like the explosion took place behind the truck.
Do people have more on-the-ground facts that prove that it was the truck? Or is this just a case of going with whatever first gets reported?
Maybe reasons that an incoming very large missile (much bigger than a HIMARS) in early daylight would have been spotted, if not by Russian radar that visually?
uh huh
Don’t sweat the details, something else will be blowing up in the ever-expanding arena in a few days. With increasing tempo.
Maybe the mechanics of this hit was a stealthy drone, or JDAM guided bomb, or frogman thermite. The palette of modern war criminality is huge. But the old familiar Imperial days of cluster bomblettes, white phosphor, landmines, and 20mm Collateral Murder against unarmed civilians is old news. The most exciting lethal tools to bash each other to death, we here won’t even have names for.
“Satan laughing, spreads his wings.”
It’s a bit like this.
Update(1435ET): Russia’s state Investigative Committee has put out a statement saying at least three civilians died as a result of the attack on the Crimean Bridge, which was likely a fertilizer-laden truck bombing. “According to preliminary data, three people died as a result of the incident. They were presumably passengers of a car, which was near the exploded track. As of now, the bodies of a man and a women have been recovered from the water, their identities are being established,” the committee said. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova at the same time blasted what she called the “criminal logic” of some NATO officials who are positively cheering the attack.
Ukrainian government sources have owned up to the attack, but this claim of responsibility stopped short of being made publicly or officially: “A Ukrainian government official told The Washington Post that the country’s special services were behind the attack, though Kyiv stopped short of saying it was responsible — even as top officials taunted Moscow.” As for the taunting and trolling, the official Twitter account for the government of Ukraine also tweeted out:
A fire which had raged for hours at the scene, particularly freight which had been on the rail part of the bridge that had burned out of control, now appears to be out – allowing Russian investigators to view the full extent of the damage.
Seems that Americans live in this false dichotomy that we could never be attacked on our own soil, no one would dare. I can’t imagine what that’s going to look like, but it sure is starting to look likely. My wonder is how shocked will the American people be when we realize that we can become a war zone like any other.
This one is good:
The beginning. TRUE ENOUGH