Video of the aftermath.
It looked like timed charges or remote control charges to me. Both rail and road exploding at the same time. Most likely remotely detonated as the train was crossing the section and the truck just happened to be in the wrong place at the right time.
A truck bomb probably wouldn’t have been big enough to get the train track too, and the video’s previously posted don’t appear to show the truck exploding followed by the train. Both were the same time.
Secret self-driving Tesla truck? Maybe Elon knows.
Better still, booby-trapped RuSSian-run vehicle?
Probably looking at a recording of the incident, but all in all nothing more than a pothole, bit of gravel and a tap of a shovel be grand
Impeccable timing to detonate just as it passed the train hauling tankers and hope it helps cause increased damage.
Could have been a remote controlled boat
Things are going to get interesting today.
Great trolling coming from Ukrainians now 😁
Will be interesting to see the traffic OUT of Crimea if the bridge is still passable.
I'd say the Chonhar bridge crossing is going to be pretty busy, maybe next to go boom.
Wasn't that long ago that the Ukrainians showed off their remote-controlled boat that had cruised around RuSSia's black sea fleet, as I recall someone posted an image of it here and we talked about what it might've been up to.
Huge result that for Ukraine. Interesting to see Putin's response.
Yes when I saw the first video clip of the bridge with the truck coming towards the camera the truck was still moving and front lights still on after explosion. The boat under the bridge diffidently carried the bomb.
CNN's picked it up the bridge story, supposedly 'fuel tank explosion'. Also mentions bombing of a cargo train in Donetsk. Ukraine has been busy.
Probably the usual response: a bunch of rockets fired at civilian infrastructure, more dead innocent people.
But this is a huge attack on Putin's pride, one day after his birthday. It seems like Ukraine is really determined to call his bluff on escalation. I hope their belief that's he's all talk proves correct and that they aren't getting just a little too self confident.
Will be very curious to see if Russian "settlers" can still get out using that bridge, if not are they stranded there?
I feel sorry for any civilians caught up in the blasts tbh. I'm guessing there will be a barrage of attacks on civilians by Moscow now. Hopefully the road and rail bridges being damaged will mess up logistics for the Russian military.
From the above video, Three explosions?
Two separate road sections and the rail line?
Doesn’t look like a single truck bomb. One word comes to mind…
... but in seriousness, though, the Russians will obviously be looking to fix this post-haste, even if it means a bodge job that would give a structural engineer heart palpitations.
Do Russia only have 1 train line into Ukraine now? Specifically to support Kherson. They can move men via road but they ain't going to be driving tanks from Russia to Kherson.
If there is only 1 line, it will be very easy to sabotage.
If the Russians blow there own transport links then the drafted cannon fodder can't get to the front lines.
Reported this morning that queues at fuel stations in Crimea, so perhaps many Russian settlers are hoping to get out across the remaining bridge while they can. Isn't this about constricting supply lines to Kherson region and mounting the pressure there.
The Russian regime has already escalated their response to the max short of nuclear etc. Can hardly throw more troops or equipment in. Can't attack other states infrastructure either.
NATO intelligence most likely has a much better idea of the likelihood of Putin going nuclear than we do and I think you'd be hearing far different rhetoric if they thought he was close to pulling the trigger.
The impression I'm getting from NATO is that their state of alert is "Possible, but not imminently so." Not a good sign, however, that Biden has been referring to tactical nukes in his latest speech. Gives me the impression that he wants to try to compartmentalise things a little bit to give room for a more graduated response rather than it just going straight to 'PUTIN USES NUCLEAR WEAPON. THE APOCALYPSE IS NIGH.'
Some Ukrainians enjoyed this on Twitter:)
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A man can't have a lie in without someone blowing some **** up around here,🌉🌉
Wonder what changed Zelensky said he wouldn't target the bridge
I think it was the train,it looks like the initial flash is further away rather than from under the bridge
So looking at the rail maps and the situation map. The only way Russia can get large machinery to Kherson from Russia, is a rail line that comes out of Donetsk. The front line is about 20km from it. It's not inconceivable that the railway has been already blown to bits.
The only other way is for Russia to do a bit of sail and rail to Mariupol or Berdyansk, then to Kherson. Plus whatever machinery is in Crimea.
If Ukraine go on a very large offensive in the South, pretty much dicks out stuff, now is the time.
The Crimea bridge carries the only rail line that Russia could have safely used to supply Kherson, and is the most direct. The rail lines in the occupied southern Ukraine zig-zag between the cities there, and in many parts are probably within range of Ukrainian weapons, assuming the lines are even intact.
Crimea is essential to their southern logistics, and Crimea itself is very reliant currently on that link. Taking it out of action is a potentially massive logistical and morale blow to the Russians.
All together,
Looks like a purposeful hit on the bridge by the Ukrainians, amazing if they have pulled that off
As usual I expect Russia to retaliate by targeting civilians
3bn dollars up in flames
Basically what this guy said
Basically what this guy says. They have lost rail transport
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