Indeed...spotted that earlier..
There has been no mention of such.
How do explosives large enough to cause that kind of damage make their way down a natural gas pipeline with no outward flow at least at the time?
I'd say it was just the pressure of the gas within it already that burst through and caused that.
Distinguising between right and wrong and/or siding with right, isn't nonsense. Asserting that there is a legitimate argument for siding with wrong is trolling.
No, they did a poll in Israel and 63% of the little darlings didn't want Israel helping Ukraine. In case you have been asleep the last 20 years, Russia make the s300 and s400 air defense systems so it's quite probable there are no secrets they need or want for.
Easy for James Bond.
Russians have nothing to believe in, so they believe in evil.
Highly unlikely unless there was a design flaw and even with russian involvement in its design, manufacture and installation, I'd doubt that. The explosion would also not come from within an a result of an "internal gas ignition" as that is impossible in a pressurised system.
Exactly. The pressure in those lines are immense, we all seen the disturbance the flow caused in the sea after the leak. An explosion outside most likely caused an initial rupture and the release of that pressure inside did the rest.
I wonder what the "most difficult decisions" could be? Wouldn't surprise me if Russia blew the Novaya Kahovka Dam.
I think Kherson is going to be the trending topic very soon.
I hate speculation, but could anyone quantify the resulting consequences on Kherson and surrounding areas if that were to happen?
Well I can at least help them out with a very helpful plane identification chart I happen to have:
That's not to say an explosion could not come from within, it could; from a propelled explosive.
Keep that one hands. If Russian atrition keeps heading the way it is now, they might actually have to dig into any lend-lease supplies they still have stashed away somewhere...
Pipe crawlers, simple tracked robots used in the inspection and maintenance of gas pipes exist and it’s almost a given that a huge gas supplier like Gasprom has access to that kind of technology. All you have to do is attach an explosive. They usually run using long command wires that follow them though the pipe.
I’m still confused as to why Russia would have done so though, except maybe to try to cause market turmoil or give the impression they could target North Sea infrastructure, but it’s a very expensive way of going about it. Or maybe to create a false flag and blame the US to provoke a rift with the Germans?
Also they didn’t claim to have done anything.
The pipe imploding or something we’ve yet to figure out from an engineering point of view due to lack of pressurisation is still a distinct possibility.
"We will act in a timely manner, without excluding the most difficult decisions"
Running away.. I mean, donating the city back to Ukraine as a goodwill gesture / relocating to more advantageous defensive positions
Coupled with the fact they want to evacuate the entire civilian population of Kherson I think it could be a little more than simply running away.
Now that's sarcasim while also following what you're told to do.
I believe the pipe was c. 80 meters underwater so equivalent to 8 Bar pressure - This would not cause an implosion, even if the pipe wasn't pressurised, unless the pipe was fairly thin skinned.
I see Estonia have followed in the footsteps of Latvia (and the CoE) in declaring Russia a terrorist state earlier today.
The State Department: Washington has a number of tools to continue to hold both Iran and Russia accountable
Russia targets another wooden S-300
Occupation authorities in Kherson region of Ukraine declare evacuation of population from the right bank of Dnipro river, citing threat of destruction of dam of Kakhovka reservoir
is this part of a scorched/drenched earth policy?
The pipe had 150 bar of gas pressure in it. I think one of the specialist Russian subs just laid some charges, or a sub just fired torpedoes at them.
They are usually just called missiles.
Probably so they can blow the dam and retreat their army using the civilians has human shields in their retreat.
That army needs to be destroyed before they can use the civilians to retreat intact. That 25-30k troops could easily reinforce other fronts.
Not a torpedo, I'm almost certain about that. Modern torpedoes are acoustically aimed and can operate either passively, listening for the characteristic noise signature of a target, for example the propellers of a submarine, or actively, using their onboard sonar to detect and home in on their target. A pipeline will have no noise signature and pinging it with active sonar would just produce a whole load of background noise from reflections of the surrounding sea floor.
A diver operating out of a submerged submarine would be my guess. Would take some planning, but very much doable. Probably a Baltic Fleet diesel-electric boat operating out of Kaliningrad or even Kronstadt, as the Baltic Sea is too shallow of an environment for nuclear submarines.
The people being evacuated are chips to be used later on for bargaining,why else would you evacuate people they were claiming to be Nazis not so long ago
Iran: "We do not take sides in the Ukraine crisis like the West. We want an end to the crisis through diplomatic means", that asides we are more than happy to supply Russia with the Shahed-136, Fateh-110 and Zolfaghar.
W*****s
Have Iran denied supplying the Russians with arms?
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