That may be true. Light is wrong.
The demo job would be the likely secondary damage to the train rather than vice versa. Otherwise, the train won't be there and the spans would still be up.
The War in the Ukraine
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That may be true. Light is wrong.
The demo job would be the likely secondary damage to the train rather than vice versa. Otherwise, the train won't be there and the spans would still be up.
Very possible if they timed the detonation of the road bridge to coincide with the passing of the fuel train.
Personally I would have though the rail bridge would have been the main target, but I would imagine a small team can only carry so much explosive.
Perhaps large detonation on road bridge and smaller amount targeting train, knowing the fuel train will cause significant damage of it's own when burning.
Personally I would have though the rail bridge would have been the main target, but I would imagine a small team can only carry so much explosive.
Perhaps large detonation on road bridge and smaller amount targeting train, knowing the fuel train will cause significant damage of it's own when burning.
It doesn't look like it was attacked from the air. The section of the bridge most damaged is a part that swooped down and is closest to the water. Most likely something in the water, perhaps a submersible drone with explosive, exploded under it and blew up that section of the bridge. It would also explain why there's no scorch mark visible on the top side we can see of the destroyed road bridge and the piece that fell into the water.
From the photos is looks like the rail section is gone, and the car lanes are also done for.
So we can reasonably say that the Crimean bridge is now disabled until further repairs are made.
One missile hit/sabotage action and the whole Crimean bridge is now closed. That's a success for Ukraine
Quite possibly. The Russians are saying it was a truck bomb on the bridge itself.
A timed explosion on the bridge, a truck bomb if the Russians are right. Or we have a horrible case of smoking dangerously. Hazardous for one's health, that is.
Pictures are likely couple hours old. Nothing fake either there's a lot of pics of the bridge on fire from many directions including far-off pics.
Seems like we have an official statement from Russia.
Crimean bridge update: A truck was blown up on the Crimean bridge. This led to the ignition of seven fuel tanks of a train.
-Russian NAC (National Anti-Terrorism Committee).
Crimean bridge update: A truck was blown up on the Crimean bridge. This led to the ignition of seven fuel tanks of a train.
-Russian NAC (National Anti-Terrorism Committee).
Footage from another angle
this looks really bad for Russian internal security. They cannot ID someone driving a truck loaded with explosives onto supposedly the most critical and secured bridge in Russia? There's no checkpoints or scanners?
Possible but not buying it. That is a heavily secured bridge and the dashcam of the car before the explosion you can hear like an incoming sound like the type you hear when a rocket or 155mm arty round is incoming.