A helicopter drops water on the burning tankers on the bridge
James Kilner, Danielle Sheridan – The Telegraph Oct 8, 2022
Vladimir Putin is preparing to step up his assault on Ukraine after his bridge to Crimea was hit by a huge explosion, Western analysts believe.
The Kremlin previously warned any attack on the Kerch Strait would be a red line and trigger “judgement day”.
The explosion on the 12-mile bridge just before dawn on Saturday killed three people and cut a crucial supply line for Russian forces fighting on Ukraine’s southern front.
By Saturday evening the Kremlin had only said that it would bolster its defences around the bridge although Russian officials said they expected an aggressive response. Putin convened an emergency meeting of his cabinet on Saturday morning.
“This was a declaration of war without rules,” said Alexander Bashkin, a Russian senator, adding the Kremlin response will be: “adequate, conscious and, possibly, asymmetric”.
Amidst the chaos, Russia made a panicked announcement, unveiling Sergei Surovikin, a general known for his brutality in Syria, as the new commander in charge of the “special military operation” in Ukraine.
Russian investigators said that the blast had been caused by a truck exploding but stopped short of accusing Ukrainian forces.
Kyiv has not claimed responsibility for the explosion but in the aftermath, an adviser to Volodymyr Zelensky said this was “just the beginning”, adding: “Everything that is stolen must be returned to Ukraine.”
The Ukrainian security service meanwhile remarked “the bridge burns beautifully”, after a new set of stamps celebrating the destruction of the Crimea Bridge was unveiled by the Ukrainian postal service shortly after the blast.
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Western analysts said the Russian president will now escalate his assault on Ukraine with the threat of nuclear warfare increased.
General Lord Richard Dannatt, the former head of the Army, said that he would expect more indiscriminate shelling of Ukrainian civilian targets and that there was also the threat that Mr Putin “might go nuclear”.
Tobias Ellwood, chairman of the Defence Select Committee, said Putin would take the alleged attack on the bridge personally. He said renewed attacks on civilian infrastructure are likely in addition to measures which cause “maximum economic harm and disunity across the West”.
The threat of nuclear weapons was now “much increased”, Mr Ellwood added.
The bridge was partially reopened to traffic on Saturday night but video footage showed extensive damage. Part of the road bridge had collapsed into the sea and a fire had destroyed a section of the railway which runs alongside it. Video showed oil tanks being transported by rail, exploding and thick black smoke billowing out of them.
The Crimea Bridge across the Kerch Straits was a pet project for the Russian leader. When he opened it in 2018, the bridge was supposed to mark the unbreakable linking of Crimea, which he annexed from Ukraine in 2014, to Russia.
As well as being of major symbolic value, the bridge forms the only direct road and rail route between Crimea and Russia. It has become a vital supply line for Russian forces trying to repel advancing Ukrainian forces around occupied-Kherson.
Supplies to Russian forces fighting on the southern front will now have to be driven through occupied-Donbas and other parts of occupied-Ukraine, a far more dangerous and longer route which is exposed to Ukrainian artillery strikes.
In July, Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy head of Russia’s Security Council, said that if Ukraine ever attacked the Crimea Bridge, Russia would unleash a “Judgement Day” scenario. The blast comes in the wake of a fresh nuclear threat from Mr Putin last month.
In Crimea there were reports of panic buying in shops and huge queues at petrol stations as residents prepared for a drop in supplies from Russia because of the closure of the bridge.
The Russians have pussyfooted around for too long. Time to smash Ukraine completely and put it back into the stone age. Destroy every power station, and every road and railway line leading into the country from NATO countries. Let the population freeze and starve.
Let the populace know who is responsible and what they need to do (where IS the Russian propaganda campaign?). Saturate the country with leaflets, internet and radio broadcasts. Encourage a coup by pissed off Ukrainian generals and politicians who want to save their own skins.
If it was missiles, rather than a truck bomb, as indicated by a video in another post, then it’s likely that the Americans and NATO were involved. Coupled with the destruction of the Nordstream pipeline it looks like the Yankees and their puppets are going all out to get a major war going.
Maybe Putin is taking so long to respond because he has to ask Carl Jones how many nukes he should drop on Zelensky and his NAAZZES. Because those NAZZEES are all over the place and they’re giving him the gas! Or maybe Zelensky is attending one Bar Mitzvah after another and Putin has to wait it out. These things take time. For about twenty-four years, Netanyahu was going on and on about how Iran was within months or weeks of getting THE BOMB so be patient. He is still waiting for Merika to bomb Iran.
Remember how the Trinity atomic bomb test site at Los Alamos was turned to Trinitite and would remain radioactive for generations? Well it turns out it was just baked clay from a stacked dynamite explosion. Oppenheimer and Groves were walking about the place the day after with reporters. They don’t look very worried about radiation and there is a souvenir hunter grabbing himself some glassy Trinitite . In fact they look quite happy posing for the camera and the film wasn’t all foggy from stray alpha, beta, gamma, etc. etc. radiation. Be like them, don’t worry, be happy: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.atomicheritage.org%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2FTrinity_Test_-_Oppenheimer_and_Groves_at_Ground_Zero_002.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=b5b24c44e69a010ef2991a7f734ac1dc0b87dd0e23d19aeaf44e814517cb291d&ipo=images
Putin is just another bought and paid for actor, he makes no decisions without authorization from above and has no nukes. It’s all fake, this war is fake, Zelensky is a pathetic little Jewish actor reading from a teleprompter in front of a green screen. Both of them went along with Bill Gates and the Covid fraud and both of them live in nations being flooded with black, brown and yellow parasites. Bombs away! Incoming!
I’ve not read, but I did watch this interesting video. This guy is clearly compromised. I mean, videoing with your bed behind you?
Anyway, the attack on the UK using just two ICBM’s is interesting, and worth the watch at less than 15 minutes. A good list of targets hit by 20 warheads, some are hit with two. One air burst, one ground attack.
This guy reckons the UK will strike back, but I think he’s wrong, because the US controls our nukes.
https://youtu.be/FYWcgF4Wwog
We still have Bible-based psychopaths mouthing off, in Russia and in America; their “God” is very casual about drowning the whole world, and they announce “the End Times” century after century, because they long for a veil to be drawn over all their failures of morality and intellect. The shameless windbags Alex Jones and an idiot Quail yesterday spewed their “nukes” all over the place then went straight into an aggressive sales pitch for a gizmo they’ve got, while in Russia the nukes are more solemnly presented as something of God’s work, by psychopathy in a different tone. We got to this in two years, with a stolen election
The escalation started this morning.
Missile attacks on several towns inclduing Kiev which interrupted a BBC broadcast.
Ukraine has destroyed all bridges and mined all approaches to Belerus.
News on RT – you may need to use VPN, Tor, or Beave to see.
The Jewish banking Mafia is finally having their cherished war in order to proceed with the reset that would grant them all of the planet’s resource including humans, for zilch.
If it was a truck bomb operated by a suicide driver, was the driver Russian, Ukrainian or other?
‘Tobias Ellwood, chairman of the Defence Select Committee, said Putin would take the alleged attack on the bridge personally.’
Just a few minutes ago a BBC Idiot Reporter ‘on location’ used that precise phrase in the wake of Russian missile attacks . I thought ‘what a ridiculous f****g comment- how does HE know if Putin took it personally or not – twat’
Now we know where the fatheaded idiot cribbed his line from, in true thicko-BBC style.
Paul M on October 10, 2022 at 10:41 am
News on RT – you may need to use VPN, Tor, or Beave to see.’
Thank you – I will try VPN or Tor – Brave is worse than useless now – may as well consult Wikipedia-
Tobias Ellwood, chairman of the Defence Select Committee, is more full of shit than the toilets at a hobo soup kitchen on Taco Tuesday. A vigorous beating with tire irons and cricket bats may set Ellwood a bit straight. And if that doesn’t work, hang him from a streetlight post.
Another “red line” violated, so let’s see what’s next in Act XXXVII of this dog & pony show in the distractionary theatre production of Goys Must Go.by Shlomo and the Maniacal Psychopath Minstrels.
Of course, any excuse for the Commies to launch more missiles on civilians & kill more pro-white Ukrainians..you wonder if the Commies blew up the bridge themselves, sort of like how Putin was blowing up apartment buildings & then blaming it on ‘terrorists’ in the late 90’s early 2000’s as exposed in the book ‘Blowing Up Russia’ by Litvinenko.
Putin now you should take the whole
Ukraine as it already belonged to russia
since Zars times . make them western
farmland speculators Monsanto + B Gates
a big disappointment as land + grain
eternaly belongs to the ukrainian people .
ETERNALY !
“Maybe Putin is taking so long to respond because he has to ask Carl Jones how many nukes he should drop on Zelensky and his”…
Lest we in the West forget as Russia is also in the West as they the Russian bridge East, West and are one integral part of our world.
As Putin did intone of our world would not be a world without Mother Russia.
Our world is now in old parlance of German bayonet poking through Belgian child…
Our world was a lie then as it is a lie now as back then as Churchillian cur guided our world for profit of the banking world.
The Russian of our world have always been a stoic person as life for those folk were a hard thing which we in our west took for granted.
Perhaps we in our west should thank our stars as old Putin is in some form of power in his world as there are fellow in Russia who await and may wish to teach our Western world of just how we should freeze penis of man child for female child who would try to be male.
Nadia I think it was in Ireland who took to court gov of Ireland to Haig as he/she were thought she was a he at birth.