It would be a very Russia kind of play but blowing up that bridge right as celebrations on the 9th kick off oof, would be extremely humiliating for Putin.
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It would be a very Russia kind of play but blowing up that bridge right as celebrations on the 9th kick off oof, would be extremely humiliating for Putin.
Sadly Ukraine don't currently have the capability to destroy the bridge, it would require either heavily armed ships or medium/heavy bombers, neither of which they have anymore.Would be quite amusing if they blow up his Crimea bridge just before the 9th...
This isn't some 30 meter long stone bridge over a stream it's four lanes wide and half the length of the English channel, destroying it would require an immense effort, it's unlikely a cruise missile strike would do the job unless you wanted to dedicate a LOT of missiles to a target of no strategic value, and Ukraine don't exactly have a surplus of cruise missiles right now.
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They havn't turned it off to Germany yet I noticed yet nor western europe. Russias playing a poker game with the former soviet satellites they're expecting them to cave in and pay in rubles like they want
Soldato
They can torpedo the bridge I thought that was the most feasible attack, not destroy but weaken to the point of failure
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Soldato
Yep, an ammunition depot in Belgorod is definitely experiencing a Special Incendiary Operation.
Only a matter of time until this war starts to spill over with stuff like this.
According to reports air-defence systems across a wide range of Russian territory bordering Ukraine were actively engaging targets, triggered or on high alert during the night.
Soldato
Yeah. Have noticed the little red dots on the live map slowly popping up further and further into Russia, and at an increasing pace. Can't say they didn't ask for it though.
*UK MoD - 'Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine - 27 April 2022'
https://twitter.com/DefenceHQ/status/1519177727038967808
https://twitter.com/DefenceHQ/status/1519177727038967808
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One way to bring this to an end is if Ukraine could reach out and touch Russian industry, bridges, railways, etc. logistics and the ability to resupply while always a weakness in a war of attrition seems to be a particular Achilles heel for Russia if you can take the war to it.
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Yup. Also he complains Western weapons are escalating the conflict, but invading Ukraine isn't an escalation, or butchering civilians, or rape and looting by his troops etc.
Soldato
Yeah, and in some reports he's actually mentioned targeting UK diplomats and politicians if, and when, they visit Ukraine in retaliation.
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/russia-warns-britain-provoking-ukraine-2022-04-26/
Hopefully, if true, it's just the the mad ramblings of a lunatic in a bunker.
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I wonder if long range drones or the work of teams on the ground scouting and using those diy high end consumer drones to drop explosives?
Most days i'm seeing updates of "Russia is making small advances but..." Assuming this is a war of attrition(I.e not over by 2022) and Russia's main gameplan is just to throw bodies and resources at it until it gets what it wants. Doesn't that mean that eventually Ukraine will fall. not because of lack of ammo but because it has run out of soldiers to use them? I'm just thinking that much of the analysis done by commentators in the west is assuming Russia actually cares about the cost in human, equipment and money terms... But.. What if it doesn't?
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https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/statement_22_2682
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There is a point Russia has to fully mobilise their economy, society, etc. towards a war effort to sustain the attrition and most commentators think (or like to console themselves with the notion) that Russia won't cross that point. Personally I think the notions, even from people with very advanced understandings of economy etc., that Russia can't afford this war, doesn't have the economy or industry and too reliant on Western components, concerns for how hollowed out economically the country might end up in the longer run, etc. to be naive.
EDIT: Ukraine is a long way from throwing their available man power at this so far though - they've been trying to avoid using personnel without experience as much as possible to simplify things on the battlefield. Only a fraction of those who've volunteered (domestically) have been put to combat duties, territorial forces are only something like 30% deployed to fighting roles (though many more are used in support roles). Two substantial sections of their armed forces were held west of Kyiv for most of this war so far to prevent Kyiv being properly encircled or losing their western connection to Europe/NATO - which they seem to have committed some of now into the fight in the east.
However I think we are only at the very beginning still of this conflict unless Russia backs down of its own accord.
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