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Russia begins Invasion of Ukraine
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RJMacready73
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Ain't nothing going over those tracks, I'm sure that fuel fire warped the tracks or at the very least popped a few, needless to say the combination of intense heat and massive explosion will no doubt affect the structural integrity of that track, not to mention the road part has just lost a massive section which again will fuck up the bit remaining, I wouldn't be running anything over that bridge and that was probably the intention, leave them a way out but make it so they can't take their heavy armour with them or resupply for the coming battle
Tams
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Yeah, it's patchable relatively soon, but nothing heavy is going to be going over.
It is sectional, so replacement isn't going to be horrible, but it will require entire new sections (including the adjacent parts that don't look too bad). And that's going to require some barges with heavy machinery to install.
RJMacready73
Banned
Everything is fixable but you don't fuck with bridges that take that sorta damage, that'll take a while to assess and fix and I wouldn't wanna be the engineer to sign that off nor would I wanna be the crew sent to fix it with the thought of will they strike it again, be hilarious if they hit it again
Tams
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Like Russia will care. They'll try using it as soon as it looks good enough.
Then blame the engineers. On the bright side for them, they might just get drafted instead of falling out of a window.
Kenpachii
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If you look good at the video u can see a boat under it before it blows. i think they just blow it up with explosives on a boat.
Water on the right bottom corner its clearly a boat when u see it in motion.
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Forsete
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RJMacready73
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So true, I often forget myself sometimes and think normal rules and logic on occasion apply to Russia then I hit myself a slap and wise up
LimanimaPT
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I've just seen another video on youtube but it is day time. In this video, the sound of a missile can be heard. But others videos are night time. I'm confused...
BigbyTheSheriff
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Denton
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Girkin is killing me
The best congratulations to Vladimir Vladimirovich for his anniversary were made by his esteemed Kiev partners. The celebratory fireworks demolished an entire section (two, they say) of the highway bridge and damaged the railway bridge. Naturally, the Crimean bridge.
At the end of August, when asked what to expect in the near future - I said in Crimea (in front of witnesses): "You have a month and a half to take your family out, and then the ukrains will blow up the Crimean bridge". Well, without expecting it, I got "within a week.
The best congratulations to Vladimir Vladimirovich for his anniversary were made by his esteemed Kiev partners. The celebratory fireworks demolished an entire section (two, they say) of the highway bridge and damaged the railway bridge. Naturally, the Crimean bridge.
At the end of August, when asked what to expect in the near future - I said in Crimea (in front of witnesses): "You have a month and a half to take your family out, and then the ukrains will blow up the Crimean bridge". Well, without expecting it, I got "within a week.
BigbyTheSheriff
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They warned them.
FunkMiller
Banned
Well now.
The bombing of the bridge is a direct, unavoidable, obvious and effective attack on critical Russian infrastructure in Russian territory, on his fucking birthday.
This would absolutely be cause for him to launch his nuclear missiles, because it’s exactly the kind of thing he threatened to retaliate with nukes if it happened.
Who’s betting it won’t fucking happen, because he’s actually a pathetic lying little shit?
The bombing of the bridge is a direct, unavoidable, obvious and effective attack on critical Russian infrastructure in Russian territory, on his fucking birthday.
This would absolutely be cause for him to launch his nuclear missiles, because it’s exactly the kind of thing he threatened to retaliate with nukes if it happened.
Who’s betting it won’t fucking happen, because he’s actually a pathetic lying little shit?
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Deyjandi_Von
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They warned them.
The guy recording must be floating on his gigantic balls.
Patrick S.
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Yeah, they'll patch it with some Ramen or Lego.
LimanimaPT
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Putin won't do shit.
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IWasInSeinfeld
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I bet it's because those dolphins had a day off that day.
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DJ12
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In a surprise plot twist, the dolphins blew up the bridge.
BigbyTheSheriff
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RJMacready73
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Has it been confirmed what caused it yet?
Missiles or Truck Bomb or Boat Bomb, all three would show a complete and utter embarrassment to Russia and it's "defenses" and how utterly badass the Ukrainians are..
If it was a Missile, then the US have either lied about giving Ukraine long range missiles (wouldn't suprise me) cause there's no way one of Ukraine's long range missiles is hitting a bridge, thats a precision strike not to me tion the fact that it just flew hundreds of miles over Russian territory that's supposed to have air defenses against this sort of thing.
If it's was truck or boat Bomb how in the fuck did they get that much explosives to take out a bridge of all things again through hundreds of miles of Russian territory and not get stopped, checked or bordered, I mean wtf are the Russians doing? Not looking inside a massive semi trailer and seeing what's in it? Or what's that boat doing in open sea heading to the bridge?
This is absolutely massive, a strike like this on Russia's crown jewel of engineering and critical infrastructure that was supposed to be protected just opens up wide how utterly fucked the Russians are, if the Ukrainians have the ability to launch missiles this deep into enemy territory with that large a payload and with the precision to hit a bridge, fuck me if I was the Russian high command hundreds of miles behind the front line, I'd be moving deep back into Russia, oo to be a fly on the wall when some poor schmo had to tell Putin they all but took out his bridge lol
Missiles or Truck Bomb or Boat Bomb, all three would show a complete and utter embarrassment to Russia and it's "defenses" and how utterly badass the Ukrainians are..
If it was a Missile, then the US have either lied about giving Ukraine long range missiles (wouldn't suprise me) cause there's no way one of Ukraine's long range missiles is hitting a bridge, thats a precision strike not to me tion the fact that it just flew hundreds of miles over Russian territory that's supposed to have air defenses against this sort of thing.
If it's was truck or boat Bomb how in the fuck did they get that much explosives to take out a bridge of all things again through hundreds of miles of Russian territory and not get stopped, checked or bordered, I mean wtf are the Russians doing? Not looking inside a massive semi trailer and seeing what's in it? Or what's that boat doing in open sea heading to the bridge?
This is absolutely massive, a strike like this on Russia's crown jewel of engineering and critical infrastructure that was supposed to be protected just opens up wide how utterly fucked the Russians are, if the Ukrainians have the ability to launch missiles this deep into enemy territory with that large a payload and with the precision to hit a bridge, fuck me if I was the Russian high command hundreds of miles behind the front line, I'd be moving deep back into Russia, oo to be a fly on the wall when some poor schmo had to tell Putin they all but took out his bridge lol
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drganon
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Bitmap Frogs
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Nice news to wake up to.
I do have to say, if this was an attack, imho it was only partially succesful. They probably planned to blow both car platforms so firetrucks couldn't get to it and that the entire fuel train would burn, doing massive damage. But perhaps the method available to them wasn't capable of doing that.
Who knows anyway, this will end like the Moskva. Speaking about the Moskva, I'm going to plug this video that talks in detail about what happened, if you are interested:
I do have to say, if this was an attack, imho it was only partially succesful. They probably planned to blow both car platforms so firetrucks couldn't get to it and that the entire fuel train would burn, doing massive damage. But perhaps the method available to them wasn't capable of doing that.
Who knows anyway, this will end like the Moskva. Speaking about the Moskva, I'm going to plug this video that talks in detail about what happened, if you are interested:
BadBurger
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Military and security Twitter seems to think it was sabotage / a commando demolition strike on the bridge. I feel that's fairly obvious, but you never know. If so it's a profound show of reach by Ukraine.
Come on Putin, buckle already. Do some theatrical authoritarian thing to save face while essentially retreating. You ain't winning this one.
Come on Putin, buckle already. Do some theatrical authoritarian thing to save face while essentially retreating. You ain't winning this one.
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RJMacready73
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You don't want to take the entire thing out, you want to leave an out, the Ukrainians don't want to have to deal with thousands of soldiers surrendering or trapped with nowhere to go, nah you want them all on foot going back to the motherland leaving their tanks and other shit behind, Ukraine will simply offer them a safe passage out of Crimea and once they're all over them you take the thing out cause that bridge will no longer be needed and pose a significant security risk.
The timing of the explosion or missile strike was pin point, hitting at the right spot with a fuel train in the vicinity was either pure luck or incredible planning, take out a road AND a massive fuel fire fucking up the tracks... I think Space Jesus is on the Ukrainians side
RJMacready73
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Prob either US Seals or SBS alongside Ukrainian special ops but fucking hell what an op if true, hopefully they all made it back and are enjoying some well deserved beers
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MastaKiiLA
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I guess they needed 21 modes of protection.
In the words of Hans Gruber, "Hit it again!"
Kenneth Haight
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Ukraine’s second largest bank, Monobank, says it has already issued a new debit card design featuring the collapsed bridge.
Can’t believe how much shit Russia is eating. They’re an embarrassment. You love to see it. How much they underestimated people embracing them with open arms is quite astounding.
Can’t believe how much shit Russia is eating. They’re an embarrassment. You love to see it. How much they underestimated people embracing them with open arms is quite astounding.
FunkMiller
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Most commentators with military and espionage experience are saying that an attack from below in a boat is the most likely explanation.
As for how they did it, Ukraine has had training and strategy help from the best special operations experts for months. In fact, there’s every chance the attack could have been carried out directly by western special forces like the SAS, in conjunction with the Ukrainians.
We have the best black ops military in the world. They’re going to be involved in this conflict in one respect or another.
ClanOfNone
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"Military dolphins" lmao.
They'll be sent to the Frontline for this catastrophic failure in their bridge protection duties.
They'll be sent to the Frontline for this catastrophic failure in their bridge protection duties.
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
Ukraine’s second largest bank, Monobank, says it has already issued a new debit card design featuring the collapsed bridge.
Can’t believe how much shit Russia is eating. They’re an embarrassment. You love to see it. How much they underestimated people embracing them with open arms is quite astounding.
That's because for the longest time Russia has been a shitshow, they remain incredibly competent at "status projection". This is something they inherited from the Soviets... have you seen "Chernobyl" on the HBO? When Gorbachev says "our power comes from the perception of our power" that is a very real observation on how Soviets (and now Russia) operates. This has worked in both directions, inside Russia and outside Russia.
The problem, of course, is that Ukraine has challenged the bluff and forced to reveal their empty hand.
Bitmap Frogs
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Oh and of course, Ukraine is officially mining this for memes...
FunkMiller
Banned
You have to imagine this is a precursor to a major push to cut the Russians off around Melitopol. The bad weather is coming, so they'll want to try to cut the Russians off in the Kherson pocket before it hits. If they can cut the supply line coming in from the east across land, and have the bridge out of action, you're looking at thousands of Russian soldiers trapped with no support. Either a mass surrender or a mass slaughter follows.
Also, the only way out of Crimea currently for panicking Russians is now through a combat hot zone. Delicious.
Also, the only way out of Crimea currently for panicking Russians is now through a combat hot zone. Delicious.
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Nickolaidas
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Sadly no translation yet. I am amazed the black guy agrees to this shit ad.
Racist fucks.
https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1578632284173131776
can just about see the boat drone bomb before it explodes
can just about see the boat drone bomb before it explodes
nemiroff
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It's a bit weird though, because it appears to me that the most damage is located where the truck was, not at the location of the boat thingy..
Anyway, in our house there was audible cheering this morning when the news hit, lol. I guess that's what happens when you live with two Ukrainians
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DJ12
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Also the boat was tiny, that's a massive explosion. In addition to thqt the smoke etc not coming from where the boat was, its coming from the next section where the truck was.It's a bit weird though, because it appears to me that the most damage is located where the truck was, not at the location of the boat thingy..
Anyway, in our house there was audible cheering this morning when the news hit, lol. I guess that's what happens when you live with two Ukrainians
No idea of the geography of this though is this the truck coming from the Russian side or Ukrainian?
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