The War in the Ukraine
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The latest rumour seems to be two cruise missiles were headed for the bridge but were successfully intercepted by AD around the bridge:
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But slightly later a second wave of missiles arrived …
That bridge don't change the situation on the front but attacking it is a nice way to anger Russians even more like putting drones in the sides of buildings in Moscow.
These Storm Shadow would be nice to blow up some Russian HQ on the front or strike ports and airports in Crimea.
It doesn't seem like the second attack was successful, traffic has been restored on the bridge again.
Agreed … but it would be a strong PR success if indeed true
If all left is PR stunt... is becoming more like terrorist attacks than waging a war. PR stunt like that are just putting peace talks farther away.
Wouldn't Kerch Bridge can also classify as a military target since the possibility of Russian transportation supplies through the bridge?
It is a military target, but if the purpose is PR it's a PR target...
Russia are finishing a highway from Russia to Crimea through Luhansk and Donets and planning to open a railway link from Rostov soon. They have portual facilities in Mariupol that are in working conditions, they even started exporting steel again.
At least they need to target the railway bridge and not the car one to achieve some sort of capabilities cut. Automotive part of Kerch Bridge is just gravy at this point.
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the bridge is a military objective, and counting the supply routes is an objective at the operational level, I don't know why you would call it terrorism lightly
there is also the fact that these saturation attacks with many drones and missiles day and night are wearing down the Russian air defenses in the area... probably tonight it will be done again and tomorrow and after, which is a sign of the increase in Ukrainian offensive capacity, which before they did not have
Russian media announced that a Ukrainian Su-24 was in the air at the time of the attacks on the Kerch bridge but in the end an attack with Storm Shadow was not consolidated, perhaps Russian defenses were tested, and the next attacks will be with drones air and naval missiles from S-200 and Storm Shadow combining to try to saturate the defenses
all this, far from being terrorist attacks, are very obvious attacks in modern warfare, where drones are becoming more and more important at a tactical level... Russia will have to spend much more to defend itself, so it will have extra wear and tear, which is one of the objectives of this type of attack... especially if the locals begin to broadcast videos, where they reveal the operational positions of the defenses deployed in the area