#Kerch Strait

[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

Something has happened on the Kerch bridge, explosions, black and white smoke, traffic closed, Russian imperialists and Russophiles are worried... Ukraine, August 12, 2023. Source: ASLAN

#Ukraine #kerch bridge #kerch strait #russian defeat #black sea #russian losses

[tomorrowusa]

A Ukrainian sea drone seriously damaged a Russian warship close to Novorossiysk. Russia claimed that the attack on the Olenegorsk Gornyak was "fake", but videos show the heavily damaged 113 meter-long vessel being towed into port.

Looking at the geography, we see what a big deal this was.

The drone traveled an estimated 424 miles/683 km from its likely launch point into a harbor in Russia proper.

The sea drones are of Ukrainian design and manufacture. The Russian Black Sea fleet can no longer feel secure in most of that body of water.

And in more recent news, another Ukrainian drone hit a chemical tanker near the Kerch Strait.

Russia says tanker hit in Ukrainian attack near Crimea

Let Putin's boats sleep with the fishes – or at least have to be recycled for scrap metal.

#invasion of ukraine #ukrainian sea drones #the black sea #olenegorsk gornyak #novorossiysk #kerch strait #vladimir putin #russia's war of aggression #putin's shrinking fleet #watching russian ships explode is fun #россия #россия проигрывает войну #владимир путин #путин хуйло #оленегорский горняк #черное море #новороссийск #керченский пролив #руки прочь от украины! #союз постсоветских клептократических ватников #геть з україни #вторгнення оркостану в україну #україна переможе #чорне море #керченська протока #деокупація #слава україні! #героям слава!

[ketrindoll]

One of the regions annexed by ruzzia following sham "referendums" was Zaporizhia.

As a revenge for their precious bridge, ruzzia bombed Zaporizhia city, killing civilians.

So, based on their own logic, they just bombed their own territory.

Quoting one Ukrainian soldier - they really are f-ing stupid.

#russia #ukraine #zaporizhia #kerch strait

[demiurgeua]

20 років тому розпочався російсько-український конфлікт довкола острова Тузла

20 років тому, 29 вересня 2003 року, рашистська терористична недодержава розпочала чергову гібридну війну проти України. В цей день рашисти розпочали активну фазу будівництва дамби до українського острова Тузла посередині Керченської протоки. Від станиці Тамань Темрюцького району Краснодарського краю рф у напрямку Тузли рашисти починають насипати греблю з метою з’єднання острова зі своїм берегом.…

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#Conflict #Острів #Рашизм #Російсько-українська війна #Тузла #Island #Kerch Strait #Russian Crimes #Russo-Ukrainian War #Tuzla

[johnlatter]

Victory Day 2022 - will Zelensky rain on Putin's Parade?

Volodymyr Zelenskyy, president of Ukraine, may become miffed as attention shifts to Vladimir Putin and Russia.

Perhaps Volodymy will throw a tantrum and do something rash - I've absolutely no idea against what, though, nor would I like to suggest anything.

On a completely unrelated note, here's a nice photo of the currently intact Crimean Bridge...

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The Russian Federation's annual Victory Day parade in the Red Square, Moscow,  commemorates the Soviet Union's part in the 1945 defeat of Nazi Germany.

The parade also reinforces the cultural conditioning imposed on the collective Russian psyche - a subject I'll come back to in a later post.

Image credit: Rosavtodor.ru.

Title: Kerch Strait Bridge (Crimean Bridge), Russia

Subject: Bridge linking Ukraine's Occupied Crimea to Russia.

Comments: The Crimean Bridge (Russian: Крымский мос), also called Kerch Strait Bridge or Kerch Bridge, is a pair of parallel bridges spanning the Strait of Kerch between the Taman Peninsula of Krasnodar Krai in mainland Russia and the Kerch Peninsula of Crimea, which is claimed by both Russia and Ukraine. The Crimean peninsular was occupied by Vladimir Putin's Russian Federation in 2014.

#kerch strait #crimea #bridge #transport #putin #zelensky #russian invasion #ukraine #russia #ukraine war #war #putin's war #nato #crimean bridge #psychology #social psychology #cultural conditioning #victory day #moscow #red square

[deadpresidents]

A tweet from Ukraine’s national rail service after an explosion severely damaged the Kerch Strait Bridge in occupied Crimea -- Russia’s overland supply link to their war effort against Ukraine and a prized infrastructure project that Vladimir Putin personally celebrated the opening of in 2018 by driving across it in the lead truck in a procession of construction vehicles.

#Ukraine #Russia-Ukraine War #Russian Invasion of Ukraine #Crimea #Crimean Peninsula #Kerch Strait Bridge #Vladimir Putin #Slava Ukraini #Happy Birthday Mr. President

[odinsblog]

Fuck ‘em up Ukraine 🇺🇦

#politics #ukraine #🇺🇦 #crimea #kerch bridge #git yo shit back ukraine #kerch strait bridge #vladimir putin go fuck yourself #kryvyi rih #russia

[memenewsdotcom]

Crimea bridge bombed as Russia ends grain deal

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#bombing #crimea #export #food #grain #grain deal #human rights #kerch strait bridge #meme #memes #news #russia #shipping #ukraine

[yeltsinsstar]

#ukraine #russia #europe #russo-ukrainian war #kerch strait bridge #ukrainian counter offensive #war #black sea #sea of azov

[gameofthrones2020]

Kerch Strait Bridge Attack

Unless you’ve lived under a rock you’ve probably heard that the Kerch Strait Bridge was attacked again which will impact the War in Ukraine.

Unless you’ve lived under a rock (or stuck in internet exile), you’ve probably heard that the Kerch Strait Bridge was attacked again. While this attack took Russia’s vehicular transport capabilities offline, there’s much more at stake here. This bridge is Russia’s most crucial logistical infrastructure in this war. It is Russia’s primary method to get equipment, troops, and fuel into the…

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#Geopolitics #Kerch Strait Bridge #Kerch Strait Bridge Attack #Ukraine War

[sanktpolypenbourg]

Oh okay excuse me while I just

#kerch #ukraine #russia #kerch strait bridge #bridge #cloudy with a chance of fck you fck you with FIRE

[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

Background: A Russian chemical tanker SIG was damaged in the Kerch Strait on the evening of 4 August due to a USV attack(..)

P.S. Ukraine's Security Service and naval drones have carried out a great military operation against the logistics of the Russian army. This tanker often carried fuel for the Russian army to Syria.

In fact, any merchant vessel that helps the Russian war criminal economy, especially those carrying fuel for the Russian military, are perfectly legitimate targets...

In addition, it turns out that the naval drones produced by the Ukrainian military industry are a very effective weapon against Russian aggression in the Black Sea. The Ukrainians are currently able to destroy naval targets in practically the entire Black Sea.

#Ukraine #russian defeat #oil tanker #kerch strait #ship #naval history #drone attack #made in ukraine #naval drone

[paulthepoke]

TWIP: Israel & Lebanon Gas Deal?; Crimean Kerch Bridge Fallout; Kim Jung Un; Food Inflation

Isaiah 10:34 He will cut down the thickets of the forest with an axe, and Lebanon will fall by the Majestic One. On This Week in Prophecy… It would appear Israel and Lebanon have reached a historic agreement in regards to maritime borders and the development of natural gas fields in the Mediterranean Sea. The agreement has not been signed on the dotted line. Details are beginning to leak out…

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#barges #Crimea #drought #food security #grain #hyperinflation #Israel #Karish #Kerch Strait Bridge #Kim Jung Un #Lebanon #Mediterranean Sea #Mississippi River #natural gas #North Korea #Qana #Russia #tactical nuclear weapon #Total Engergy #Ukraine #Vladimir Putin

[blueiskewl]

Ukraine Destroys Russia’s Brand-New $65 Million Warship Sergei Kotov

Ukraine has destroyed the newest patrol ship of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, the $65 million Sergei Kotov, and left pro-Kremlin war reporters sulking.

“As a result of a strike by Magura V5 maritime drones, the Russian Project 22160 ship Sergei Kotov received damage to the stern, starboard and left sides,” Ukrainian military intelligence said in a statement.

“The fewer such ships, the fewer anti-aircraft missile systems will be deployed on them, meaning more opportunities for Ukrainian security and defense forces,” spokesman Andriy Yusov told local media, adding that more than 10 ambulances were spotted rushing to help the evacuated crew members. At least seven crew members were killed, Ukrainian authorities said.

Audio of what Ukraine described as an intercepted radio communication also appeared to capture a Russian commander reporting on the “tragic event” and destruction of the ship, lamenting that a helicopter had also been obliterated in the nighttime attack near the Kerch Strait.

The 308-foot, 1,700-ton ship entered the Black Sea Fleet in July 2022.

Russia’s Defense Ministry has yet to comment on the incident, though pro-Kremlin military bloggers begrudgingly admitted that Ukraine had pulled off the attack.

“If it continues like this, the Black Sea Fleet will have only catamarans and rubber banana boats for vacationers. It’s fucked,” wrote one popular pro-war Telegram channel.

The Sergei Kotov had been targeted in three previous attacks by Ukrainian forces before finally being taken out this time around. Noting that Russia had plenty of defenses in place to protect the ship, pro-war propagandist Alexander Kots said that “unfortunately, the enemy is also evolving.”

“The crew fought heroically until the end. … But this time it is a story without a happy ending,” he wrote on social media.

“The ship ‘Sergei Kotov’ sunk,” wrote former Vladimir Putin adviser Sergei Markov, calling it part of a “new type of war” in which “what matters most are the multitude of drones, space reconnaissance, and electronic warfare.”

“This is where we need to overtake the West,” he said.

By Allison Quinn.

#Sergei Kotov #Ukraine Destroys Russia’s Brand-New $65 Million Warship Sergi Kotov #ukraine #russia #russian war on ukraine #drone #MAGURA V5 maritime drones #ship #russian ship sunk #russian Black Sea fleet #war #world at war #weapons #battle #fighting #combat

[mariacallous]

When I was a foreign correspondent in West Berlin during the dying days of the Cold War in 1988, a British spy gave me a vivid insight into the state of Germany’s intelligence services.

‘If you want the Kremlin to take something seriously, give it to the Germans and tell them it’s a secret,’ he said. ‘It’ll be on every desk in the Politburo the next morning.’

Clearly little has changed in the intervening years.

On Friday, the Russians revealed that they had eavesdropped on a discussion between the head of the Luftwaffe and three top air force colleagues about the highly contested question of donating Germany’s long-range Taurus missiles to Ukraine.

Such weaponry would help that country strike Russia’s logistics depots and supply lines, such as the Kerch Strait Bridge that links Crimea to Russia proper.

Top brass in any self-respecting country would conduct such sensitive discussions on encrypted lines using special handsets, with the participants in secure locations — an arrangement known in this country as a ‘STRAP environment’.

But the gormless Germans used Webex, a conference-call system akin to Zoom.

One participant dialled in from Singapore — using his bog-standard phone. So, too, did the Russian intruders. Unbelievably, nobody noticed the extra, silent participant.

Nothing was decided on the call. The missiles’ delivery remains blocked by German chancellor Olaf Scholz. But the 38-minute recording, released by the Kremlin, did reveal that he has lied to the German public.

According to the brass hats, well-trained Ukrainians could program the missiles with targeting data — something Scholz had claimed would require German specialists on the ground in Ukraine. This would be an impossibly provocative step in his view.

But the worst damage was done not to reputations but to allied security.

‘If we’re asked about delivery methods, I know how the British do this. They always transport them in Ridgeback armoured vehicles. They have several people on the ground,’ said the head of the German air force, Lieutenant General Ingo Gerhartz, referring to the Storm Shadow missiles that we have donated to Ukraine.

Discussing military secrets on an open phone line is a sackable offence. But you cannot sack a whole country. Western allies are confronting the reality that our biggest and richest European ally is an appalling liability.

No 10 yesterday described the leak as ‘a very serious matter’ but declined to be drawn on whether there are plans to restrict our intelligence- sharing with Berlin.

But no one would blame them if they were considering just such a response. After all, Scholz is in the doghouse for other reasons, too.

Only last Monday, he let slip that British soldiers were on the ground in Ukraine assisting with the use of our Storm Shadow missile system.

This would come as no surprise to Moscow. But it is still embarrassing to have a sensitive detail blurted out by the leader of a supposedly trustworthy partner.

Chairman of the Commons’ Foreign Affairs Committee, Alicia Kearns, didn’t hold back, describing the blunder as ‘wrong, irresponsible and a slap in the face’.

The bleak truth is that, in the eyes of Western allies, Germany is now regarded as worse than useless.

And no branch of its security set-up is in a more parlous state than its clueless, leaky secret services. A senior official in the German foreign intelligence service, identified only as Carsten L, and an alleged accomplice, Arthur E, went on trial in December for spying for Russia. The pair were arrested, not thanks to German diligence, but thanks to a tip from the FBI.

Former CIA officer John Sipher describes German spies as: ‘Arrogant, incompetent, bureaucratic, useless’.

Yet it is no laughing matter for the Ukrainians that Scholz dithers on sending weapons. High hopes of the Zeitenwende — ‘change of eras’ — that he announced after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 have shrivelled.

Germany’s puny military remains under-equipped, ill-led and cash-strapped. Berlin’s aversion to hard thinking about security lies partly in its two catastrophic defeats last century, and its role as a potential nuclear battleground during the Cold War.

This past stokes anti-Americanism and anti-militarism. ‘Even the worst peace is better than the best war,’ said a leading German thinktanker as Ukraine began its struggle for survival.

The idea that freedom might be worth dying for counts for nothing.

Greed also plays a big role. Germany has obsessively pursued lucrative deals with Russia and China.

That contributed to Germany’s blind spot when it came to its eastern neighbours such as Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Yet it was these countries that the Hitler-Stalin pact fed into the meat-grinder in 1939.

Germany owes them a huge historical debt but, instead of making strenuous efforts to boost their security, Berlin blocked Nato defence plans for these states for years.

Worse, German spymasters stole their secrets. As I revealed in my book Deception, the German BND — the counterpart to our MI6 — recruited a top defence official in Estonia, Herman Simm, in order to keep an eye on American influence there.

What the Germans did not know was that Simm was also spying for the Russians. The damage was colossal.

I am no Germanophobe. I lived and worked there for many years. I tried to alert Germans to the danger presented by nascent, and now revived, Russian imperialism. The response was patronising and incredulous.

Meanwhile, Russian spies, thugs and crooks ran riot under the noses of the bureaucracy-bound German police and security services.

That reflects another legacy of the past: a resistance to state surveillance, thanks to the long shadows cast by Hitler’s Gestapo and then the Stasi, communist East Germany’s secret police.

Ultra-strict data-protection and privacy laws stop German authorities conducting the simplest security checks.

The consequences of this were recently highlighted by journalist Michael Colborne, who took only 30 minutes to track down a fugitive Left-wing terrorist, 65-year-old Daniela Klette, of the murderous Baader-Meinhof gang.

She had been living in Berlin under a false identity, despite being on Germany’s most-wanted list. A simple internet picture search led to her hasty arrest by the hitherto ignorant German police.

Germany’s policy makes it the weakest link in Europe’s defence. Suppose that Russia, boosted by success in Ukraine, tests Nato’s resolve in Poland or the Baltic states?

These states would respond with flinty and furious resistance. We and other allies will want to help them. But suppose Germany cries ‘Diplomaten statt Granaten’ — ‘Diplomats instead of grenades’ — and demands that the crisis be solved through talks not war?

Sitting, as it does, on the North European Plain, Germany and its supply lines would be vital in rushing aid and ammunition to the front. Yet Berlin might bristle at direct involvement and close its borders and airspace to allied reinforcements.

This nightmarish prospect is not fiction. Germany closed its airspace to reinforcement flights at the start of the Ukraine war. The uncomfortable truth is that Germany slumbers as Europe burns, and that means sleepless nights for the rest of us.

[dailyoverview]

An explosion this morning destroyed sections of the Kerch Strait Bridge, which connects the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula to Russia. The 13-mile (21-kilometer) structure is the only bridge to cross the strait and has served as an important supply route for Russian troops fighting in southern Ukraine. This Overview shows collapsed sections of road and flames coming from a train on the bridge’s railroad section.

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Source imagery: Maxar