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Traffic stopped on Crimean bridge due to ‘emergency’ as explosions reported
- sposeray 3y ago[dead]
- mikewarot 3y agoAt this point, the only way to find out the truth, is to wait a few days, until then, it's all rumors.
- rasz 3y agoTons of gruesome videos uploaded by russians stuck on the bridge at night and detailed photos of damage from morning.
- mdeeks 3y agoThere are a bunch of videos of it on twitter right now. Seems confirmed. https://twitter.com/saintjavelin/status/1680826559626706944?s=46&t=rVy5Fftp7To9hAaYo1S-wA https://twitter.com/saintjavelin/status/1680826559626706944?...
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- Giorgi 3y ago[flagged]
- lacrimacida 3y agoIt is but maybe it’s not just tourism. Many russians invested good money in Crimea, bought propery there post 2014 and are going there to develop on their properies.
- _kbh_ 3y agoMaybe they shouldn’t have invested money on land that was literally stolen from another country. Sucks to be them.
- euroderf 3y agoThere's not-dissimilar cases moving thru American courts.
- Giorgi 3y ago[flagged]
- red-iron-pine 3y ago[flagged]
- euroderf 3y agoYes I refer of course to suits brought by Native American tribes.
- sacnoradhq 3y agoIn high school many moons ago, I had a history/economics teacher who did a Master's thesis on the (original) Crimean War. He predicted in ~1995 that post-Soviet Russia would annex Crimea and it would lead to another regional war. Unfortunately, the Crimean War was the Russian Empire's Afghanistan/Vietnam War. One can only hope that history repeats itself because the only workable offramp is one were Russia concedes. That may take months to years to never.
- gdy 3y ago[flagged]
- _kbh_ 3y ago> Yes, Crimea was stolen in 1954, but in 2014 it reunited with Russia. I see your back with your delusions. How exactly did the USSR which had control of Crimea exactly steal Crimea from itself, to give it to a part of itself?. Don't worry the terrorist occupiers in Crimea will be removed soon enough.
- aaron695 3y ago[dead]
- gdy 3y ago[flagged]
- machine_coffee 3y agoCould be their moral compass has been warped by Russian propagandists who find the death of civilians in the Ukraine ‘SMO’ to be a cause of great celebration.
- gdy 3y agoAnd who and where exactly is finding "the death of civilians ... to be a cause of great celebration"? Citation needed, as they say in Wikipedia. Anyway, you surely will find all sorts of people among 146 millions of Russians including serial killers and the likes. How does it justify being a person who is laughing over the death of civilian couple and orphaned and injured girl?
- machine_coffee 3y agoWho and where? Russian propagandist, on Russian tv. You just have to wait for some horrendous act of indiscriminate killing by Russia to occur in Ukraine and they come out to justify or glorify the horror. I don’t particularly blame them for their cynical actions, it’s their job.
- gdy 3y agoJust as I thought -- no source or proof whatsoever.
- _kbh_ 3y ago> It's bizarre that you find the murder of two civilians and a girl becoming an orphan funny. What's wrong with you? What were three civilians doing on a bridge that is not only in an active war zone but has successfully targeted before?. A bridge that Ukraine has said multiple times they will target and that people should not use it?. I have sympathy for the child who was at the mercy of her parents, but her parents clearly make very bad decisions. They should of been smarter and not gone on the bridge that has a tendency to explode.
- karp773 3y agoRussia tries its best to lure civilians into using the war supply routes to Crimea. They serve as a human shield of a kind. How do you like the idea of using large landing ships to shuttle tourists to Crimea? [0] Note this was before the latest attack on the bridge. 0. https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/security/2023/07/northern-fleet-landing-ship-ready-start-shuttle-tourists-crimea https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/security/2023/07/northern-...
- citrin_ru 3y ago1. Life in Russia is much less safe than in any 1st world country (even the US) so people living there have higher risk tolerance. I suspect many probably think now is not the best time to visit Crimea but very few would consider this recklessly dangerous - so far not many civilians were killed either in Crimea or on the bridge (during the previous attack). 2. For many people living in Russia Crimea and Krasnodar Krai are only two options for a seaside holidays. Number of people who can afford international travel was not huge to begin with and then diminished further after the war started. Krasnodar resorts likely booked months ahead given influx of new visitors (who in the past were able to travel to other countries).
- pestatije 3y agoshould have gone for the railway pylon, not the highway one
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- libertine 3y agoI wonder if this was done by missile strike. If it was, this it's huge. That bridge is protected by a lot of systems, I mean they even tried smoke covers on it. So if this is at reach of Ukraine missiles and those can't be stopped by Russian system, this could be huge.
- maximinus_thrax 3y agoper the SBU, they used surface drones https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/07/17/ukraine-crimea-bridge-attack-drones-strategy-russia/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/07/17/ukraine-cr... It is kind of a big deal, but I'm kind of disappointed the bridge is still standing. This is the second attack, and the damage seems to be something the Russians are going to fix. Don't get me wrong, with the amount of defense Russia threw at this bridge, it is an accomplishment and yet another embarrassment for the Russians.
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- white_dragon88 3y ago[flagged]