Originally Posted by
NutLoose
I wonder if the boat is any relevance or is one of the decoys? One lane left standing so the Russians can evacuate Crimea?
Yikes!
Now, that is going to take a fair bit of bog to fill in.
Crimea just lost it's eastern MSR, for the next year or so. They have...
A. Ship transfer from Novo to Sevastopol, ripe for interdiction, and maybe 3000T/day;
B. Airbridge, open to attack on airport, forget about air interdiction... 500T/day?;
C. Truck from Rostov, along the M14... which have critical bridge access, and appear to be within Ukraine ranging now.
D. what they will do
Question: what dropped the road bridge? that looks like it has been dropped at one end completely, that would take a fair bit of bang. Did a Russian smoker pop off a tank of propane or some other FAE equivalent at an inopportune time?
Ukraine needs to be getting as much SAM/AAA/ABM protection as we can muster, as Putin will not be amused by having his candles blown off the cake by a fuel train which then burns out the structure of the rail bridge, and... what ever on earth happened on the road way.
Russia needs a review of their ISO 45001 program... they really do.
Neither of the bridges is a drawbridge, there are at least 5 spans of the roadway that are out of commission. That's all happening around 100m to the EAST of the elevated span over the Kerch-Yenikale canal... just a bit to the Ukrainian side of the mid way of the waterway, in Ukraininan waters!