Russian officials said Thursday that a bridge in northern Crimea that connects to Russian-controlled areas of Ukraine’s Kherson Oblast was damaged by a Ukrainian missile strike.
No casualties were reported in the strike, and Vladimir Saldo, the Russian-installed acting governor of Kherson, said the damage to the bridge should be repaired within a few days. Saldo also said the damage will inconvenience local civilians but would not impact Russia’s war effort.
“This destruction that the Kiev regime’s missile strike has caused will not change the course of the special military operation. It will not affect it in any way,” he said, according to Russia’s TASS news agency.
Saldo said he suspected Ukraine used British-provided Storm Shadow cruise missiles in the strike, although Russia’s Investigative Committee later said missile fragments with French markings were found. At this point, the Russian authorities have not identified the missiles and just said four were used in the strike.
The attack on the bridge came a few days after Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said the Russian military had information that Ukraine was plotting strikes in Crimea using Storm Shadow missiles or US-provided HIMARS rocket systems. Shoigu warned that Russia could respond to such strikes by targeting “decision-making” centers in Ukraine.
Ooh, a bridge was damaged!
This headline has been plastered all over Western MSM sites today. It’s an excellent example of how desperate the West is to portray as successful the much-ballyhooed Ukrainian offensive, which is, so far, failing just as abysmally as well-informed observers (as opposed to propagandists and cheerleaders) had expected.
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Was this the “bridge too far” that would enable Russia to respond by targeting “decision-making” centers in Ukraine? That would, of course, include all NATO command posts and installations. Just one step closer to Armageddon.
It won’t be surprising if Russia responds by targeting Ukraine decision-makers. I don’t think the Kremlin wants a direct fight with NATO, but . . . we’ve seen that there are limits beyond which Russia shouldn’t be pushed.
Russia hates war; but, Washington loves it.
Yes, this is a problem. Washington has a population that for many generations have not seen war affecting its territory. Or even a war on its borders threatening its security and occasionally get hit by missiles from accross the border. Unlike in Russia and many places in Europe where wars affected practiically every generation.
This war reminds me of what Hitler tried to do. He first secured European continent and held UK at bay, to start the real war against what he (and the West in general) thought of inferior people, Thus war on East and Southern Europe and the grand march on Sovier Union was very pleasing to Europe. There were no real attempts to disuade Hitler from ceasing and desisting his openly murderous intent towards untermenchen.
What is different today? Sweet snd pious words notwithstanding Collective Westvis on the same mission today. This time, their brethern Germans are on the right side, and use Ukrainian, Polish and other untermenchen to do their bidding. Russia is still the objective. Its territory, its resources — all bring saliva to Western mntality, Wright and wrong become very flexible. You can be as brutal and uncaring about those you define as enemies, The Christian idea that all human beings are equal under God is alien to Western cultures and will remain so. They can only be made act decent buman beings when convenient,
This is why lying and cheating is acceptable, destroying other humans is necessary so that superior beings are triumphant,
No amount of lying and whining cqn hide ugly facts that this war was deliberately provoked by targeting Ukrainian citizens of Russian origin or any Russian speakung Ukrainian, And by NATIO support for tge abhorent practice.
But no, nothing is abhorent in Western mnd when job is to be done. This is why nobody cares about CORE readond for tge conflict. It us all just geopolitical mumbo-jumbo,
But it is not. Western colonial mentality or its inheritors, are the main cause of all conflicts in the world today,
This is the hy this conflict will last, as it is testing Western ability to forever enforce its foreve changing “rules”, and testing Russia’s endurance to stand up to its physical, economic and cultural preceps. The rest of the world may be ineutral in the narrow definition of the war — but not neutral psychologically. They can smell the Western colinial boot no matter all the parfume of “human rights” being splashed about,
Yes, many parallels, though I doubt The Third Reich conceived itself compassing the entire globe. Still, similar megalomania. But the thing I find so shocking is the identical decadence and self-conscious nihilism. These folk don’t even hold for the “la gloire” of the nation-state or even a racial community. And the immense slaughter and laying waste whole nations is clearly criminality of a whole new order of magnitude. Such that one is force to thank God for Putin.
It is a new phenomena nihilsm defines it. But behind the Orwelian simplification of this language of force wrapped up into bland “democracy” lurk interests, None of thos is a coincidrnce, But it was a tempting mistake to revive Third Reich with creating Slavic-on- Slavic death spiral. This is why Russia is waiting patiently fior this locomotive to emerge or not,
It was a mistake to take on Russia — as this just cleared the matters in the heads of many countries in the world,
And fallback is not available. Getting China to abandon Russia is a fool’s errand. Yet many a binary leader if Western world still think it possible.
The justifying propaganda has never been so threadbare, perfunctory, cynical, … nor the major interests so manifestly narrow, grasping and mean. Besides the inertia of the masses, these threads of private interest are all that hold the Empire upright. The pressure against the dollar has already begun to topple it. And while the magical thinking fraction turning for self-preservation to block-chain currency, the realists are turning to nukes. And there is nothing in there value system to pose a contra.
It is not. It is a hole in the pavement. Bridge has not been destroyed.
I do not see Russia changing its policies until Ukraunian front has been depleted, and easy to push back. Then any event could serve as a reason to proceed forward. There is zero reason to rush.
“”… (but) the Russian authorities have not identified the missiles and just said four were used in the strike””
does it matter who actually made and delivered the missiles? all the west is hiding under the umbrella of uncle NATO. and once again Crimea is a target.
Ukraine seems like it wants to punish Crimeans for leaving the abuse heaped on them by Ukraine and uncle sam knows that Crimea is strategically and economically important for the dominance of the entire region.
I continue to believe that Ukraine’s interest in taking back Crimea is to placate the desire of Ukraine’s sponsors to eliminate the Russian naval base at Sevastopol. It’s a fool’s errand because in a few years Russia’s navy will have access to the high seas from multiple locations on its northern coastline (due to global warming).
That was / is the plan to re place the Russian fleet with a NATO fleet , but the Russian saw it coming and acted .
I saw that damage.
If the Russuans believe it will take a “few days” they must have hired the same lazy efs that “work” on our local roads around here.
I saw a semitruck cook its brakes yesterday because of the local idiots who have been blacktoping the roads who decided to park on the bridge and talk to some of the fellow idiots and the guy had to slow down because someone served around them. He started to lose his load of huge hay bales within a mile of those stinky brakes cooking.
If that damage takes more than a day it has to be that the caliber road repairers over there are same around here.
They’ll never get that road done…..
Man, how would the USA respond if enemy states were literally dropping bombs on our sovereign territory? Think about it. Back in the early 60s we almost started WWIII over the issue of Soviet missiles in Cuba.
And yet no coverage here on AW about Prigozhin‘s allegations that Russia attacked Wagner troops or what appears to be his attempts to incite armed rebellion.
There’s a thread on that subject in the comments on this story.