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Judging by this video, the rail portion is on huge fire but the car portion section seems to have collapsed.

I am really not sure what kind of weapon could have caused this. A car bomb? A rail car full of ammo exploding? This is not HIMARS or ATACMS. Too big.

https://www.yapfiles.ru/show/2803932/ef91fa7dd911edb043d25b2d472c9503.mp4.html

Added: here is one of the the collapsed portions:

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And a bit more.. A reminder for those who don't know - this is the main method of supplies for the Crimea and through it to a few other areas of currently occupied Ukraine. Blowing up the bridge makes it practically impossible for Russia to supply its troops in the Kherson and Zaporozhie regions. Or in Crimea, obviously.

I am not a huge expert (though I was in artillery in my youth).. But if this was done by an attack at an ammo/fuel train *at the time* it was passing on the bridge, that is one of the most precise and audacious attacks in history.

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terr said:
And a bit more.. A reminder for those who don't know - this is the main method of supplies for the Crimea and through it to a few other areas of currently occupied Ukraine. Blowing up the bridge makes it practically impossible for Russia to supply its troops in the Kherson and Zaporozhie regions. Or in Crimea, obviously.

I am not a huge expert (though I was in artillery in my youth).. But if this was done by an attack at an ammo/fuel train *at the time* it was passing on the bridge, that is one of the most precise and audacious attacks in history.

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looks like Putin doesn't even have an off ramp out of Crimea now
 
terr said:
And a bit more.. A reminder for those who don't know - this is the main method of supplies for the Crimea and through it to a few other areas of currently occupied Ukraine. Blowing up the bridge makes it practically impossible for Russia to supply its troops in the Kherson and Zaporozhie regions. Or in Crimea, obviously.

I am not a huge expert (though I was in artillery in my youth).. But if this was done by an attack at an ammo/fuel train *at the time* it was passing on the bridge, that is one of the most precise and audacious attacks in history.

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Did they timed the train movement ?

Finally. Bravo.

Btw, happy Brthday putka.
 
Nobert said:
Did they timed the train movement ?

Now railway is blocked as well.
For now.
And car with explosives version would explain why the railway part is intact.
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No one knows. People theorize that the car section was somehow blown up with an unpiloted sub, but the amount of damage is just huge. Three spans of the car section are down. If someone did that with the sub, why not blow up the railroad section as well?

Don't know. It's a mystery.

Here's the thing. Russians will know immediately. There are cameras every 100 feet around there, you can even see one in the picture pointed exactly at the damaged section. So - they will know. But they definitely won't tell the truth.
 
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Russian "National Anti-terrorism Committee" - a branch of the government - announced that the damage to the Kerch bridge is the result of a truck bomb.

I really doubt that's the truth. Look at the pictures - the highway light pole right next to the collapsed section is completely undamaged.

By the way: the ferries that used to carry traffic into Crimea before the bridge was built are not there anymore. There are reports they were sold off since they were not necessary anymore. Good luck getting supplies to Crimea now.

Update: if this video is not fake (and it looks correct, and fits the time of day) - it *could* have been a truck bomb:

https://t.me/m0sc0wcalling/12519
and another one - really looks right

https://t.me/m0sc0wcalling/12519?comment=1416531
https://t.me/m0sc0wcalling/12519?comment=1416531
unless the truck just got hit by whatever hit the bridge.

Another update: supposedly at the entrance to the bridge there are these detectors that are supposed not to allow a truck with explosives onto the bridge:

https://t.me/insiderUKR/43047
 
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Hm - the version with the truck bomb is looking less and less credible.

3 spans of the bridge have collapsed. Two next to each other and the third quite a long distance away. One truck bomb would not have done it.

And another interesting nuance is the "coincidence" of the fuel train being right next to the explosion. If it was a truck bomb, they had to know that it was passing and time the truck accordingly. Tricky.

https://www.yapfiles.ru/show/2804039/e7ee7fc42667217da6c003776a192a38.mp4.html

https://t.me/chtddd/55680
 
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Looks to me that one driving lane is not touched and can still be used.

Ukraine should just wait each time till a military transport tries to cross the bridge and bomb that transport with drones. The drones might hit the amunition and the amunition would destroy the bridge.

Basically the Russians would bring the material to destroy the bridge completelly. Just like they deliver a lot of tanks to Ukraine. :D:D
 
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