Kerch Bridge in Crimea has just been blown up.
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I believe there is a ferry service from Bulgaria to Georgia across the Black Sea. I have no idea if it’s large enough to take a large trailer truck. |
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"the crossing remains open only to trucks, while all traffic on the bridge goes along a single intact lane."
"Marat Khusnullin, deputy prime minister of the Russian Federation, said in a news conference on 10 October, two days after the attack, that two-way traffic had been restored on one of the bridge’s causeways, and some 150 people were employed around the clock on preliminary repairs. He added: “We are inspecting the railway tracks, and preliminarily, we see that we will need to replace two spans, but the Crimean Railway restored both freight and passenger service along one track on the first day … Lorries and buses are being transported by ferry. We are stepping up this alternative.” He also said repair work was being carried out on 500km of road in the “new territories” of the Donbas, which Russia has now annexed. “We are planning to be finished in November or December, including 180 of the 359km of this alternative route.” "https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3594593-russians-face-more-acute-logistical-issues-following-damage-to-kerch-bridge-uk-intelligence.html ""With the Russian presence in Kherson strained, and the supply routes through Crimea degraded, the ground line of communication through Zaporizhzhia Oblast is becoming more important to the sustainability of Russia’s occupation," the UK Ministry of Defence tweeted in a regular bulletin. Russian forces in southern Ukraine are likely increasing logistical supply flow via Mariupol in an attempt to compensate for the reduced capacity of the bridge, the update said." https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/russian-logistical-issues-intensify-after-crimea-bridge-blast-uk-101665983595270.html "“According to Moscow’s military commissioner, the partial mobilisation tasks set on the basis of the presidential decree and the Defence Ministry’s assignment have been fulfilled in full. The assembly points of the mobilized will be closed on October 17, 2022, at 2 pm,” he said." https://euroweeklynews.com/2022/10/17/military-draft-completed-moscow/ "With two decrees, the Russian government has unilaterally terminated our interests in Sakhalin-1, and the project has been transferred to a Russian operator," an Exxon Mobil spokeswoman said. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/exxon-exits-russia-after-putin-expropriates-sakhalin-1-project/ "Russia's defence ministry said the plane, a Su-34 fighter bomber, was on a training flight when one of its engines caught fire on Monday evening." ""At the point where the Su-34 came down, in the courtyard of a residential block, the plane's fuel supply caught fire."" "Local media report the fire engulfed five floors of the multi-story building." "two of the building's blocks caught fire." "Russia's Investigative Committee said it had opened a criminal case and sent investigators to the site of the crash, without giving any reasons." https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63292320 "Ukraine’s artillery has struck enemy targets with pinpoint accuracy in the temporarily occupied city of Melitopol and two more settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region. As a result, about 100 Russian invaders were injured, and an ammunition depot was destroyed in Berdiansk." https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3595198-russian-ammo-depot-destroyed-up-to-100-invaders-injured-in-zaporizhzhia-region.html "I ask you to dismiss me, commander of the 2nd anti-aircraft missile department of the 2nd anti-aircraft missile platoon of the anti-aircraft missile battery Sergeant I.O. Azhgaliyev, from the ranks of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation due to physical and moral fatigue from participation in the SMO on the territory of Ukraine,” writes the 28-year-old native of Saratov region." https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3595288-fortitude-of-a-russian-soldier-in-te-war-of-conquest-what-the-mobilization-reveals.html "Ukrainian executions of suspected Russian agents severely undermining Russian operations, alongside the expulsions of over 400 Russian officials from posts around the globe. This will impede Putin’s ability for years to come to conduct global intelligence operations, given the probable reluctance of Western countries to accept more Russian ‘diplomats’." https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/9619170/putins-ukraine-war-russia-mafia-state-total-collapse/ |
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Tick-tock of Russian timeline narrative.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1580303839248322560 |
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PP, thanks for posting - very interesting. |
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I was looking at the vehicles stuck crossing the Kerch bridge.
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3594765-russian-military-convoy-spotted-entering-kerch-in-occupied-crimea.html I did a double-take on this one: https://static.ukrinform.com/photos/2022_10/1665997805-340.jpg It looks kind of like a Russian 120mm 2S42 Lotos Airborne SPM/SPH (a 1985 design), but almost as if it wasn't finished? No smoke launchers? This is what it should look like: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/30886/meet-russias-pint-sized-but-heavily-armed-and-air-droppable-gun-mortar-tank |
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| Correction "stuck waiting to cross the Kerch bridge" |