James Kilner – The Telegraph Feb 11, 2023
Russia attacked a key bridge in southern Ukraine, deploying a drone boat for the first time since the war began.
Western analysts warned that Russian drone boats now posed a “major new threat” to Ukrainian supply lines and control of the Black Sea.
“Russia was not known to have these types of drones or to think in these terms,” said H.I. Sutton, an independent naval analyst. “We may see another shift in the war in the Black Sea. This time in Russia’s favour.”
Video of the attack showed a boat speeding towards the low-slung Zatoka railway and road drawbridge near Odessa late on Friday evening. As it passes under the bridge the boat explodes, debris flies into the water and smoke billows into the night sky.
Neither the Russian nor Ukrainian militaries have commented although Russian opposition media confirmed the geolocation of the video.
Surveillance footage possible showing the Zatoka bridge near Odesa being hit by what looks like a naval suicide drone. #Ukraine #Odesa pic.twitter.com/E7IlTuyzSW
— (((Tendar))) (@Tendar) February 10, 2023
Ukraine has attacked the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol, Crimea and Novorossiysk, further along the Russian Black Sea coast, several times with drone boats but this is the first time that Russia has used one.
The first use of a drone boat by Russian forces in the war gave rise to celebrations from supporters of Vladimir Putin.
“A year after the start of the Special Operation we have started to use unmanned maritime drones,” said Poddubniy, a popular Russian military blogger. “I’m happy that the people who promised this type of equipment have come through.”
The bridge at Zatoka is only a few hundred metres long but it is strategically important because it crosses the mouth of the Dniester Estuary which flows into the Black Sea. It is also the most direct and the only Ukraine-controlled route linking Odessa with Romania and the Danube Delta, a shipping gateway into central Europe.
Russian missiles struck the bridge in April, forcing freight traffic heading to and from Odessa into a detour through Moldova and possibly through Transnistria, a pro-Kremlin Moldovan breakaway region.
100 missiles fired in new offensive
Further to the east, reports said that an intensified level of fighting continued along the front-lines.
The renewed fighting comes as Russia is suspected to have launched a fresh general offensive.
Russia’s ministry of defence also confirmed on Saturday that it had fired more than 100 missiles at Ukraine on Friday in one of the heaviest attacks of the war.
And Russian media sources said that Russian forces had captured the village of Dvurechnoye in the Kharkiv region but Ukrainian sources have disputed this.
Until the Russian military confirm that they did it, I’ll stick with the Nazis doing it, because damaging or destroying this bridge is a negative for Russian advancement.
The usual CIA degraded video, and if Russia did it, they filmed it and sent it to Western fake news, or the Nazis did it and filmed it?
dear mr putin when you have won the ukraine war and bombed the shit out of the USA
can you please start on Israel and the jewish areas of london ?
many thanks people of the UK
None of it matters, but it distracts from Covid and the Biden laptop and White Genocide in general; somehow they pretend Ukraine was always important and they always loved it and can admire the little Jew poof who puts on a gravelly voice like the Hollywood nonces
Someone said this bridge is an important route for western weapons into Ukraine via Rumania.
Russia implement YOUR spacelaser !
It would be mightily helpful,
If one of these weapons was used on a capacity attendance at the
Houses of HP sauce.
Bong… Bong….Bong.
It either happened or it didn’t happen…
If there is evidence of destruction, then it either happened by the reported method of Russian tech, or it was due to some other physical cause to make it look like a Russian cause by this particular tech…
If Russia caused it, but not in the way reported, then it is for a reason that Russia is privy to—-to give the illusion of this particular Russian capability…
In the alternative, if it was not Russian tech (as reported specifically)—-or any other Russian cause—-then it was some non-Russian cause…
The path-of-least-resistance argument in the lie-versus-truth milieu weighs heavily in favor of this reportage being “entangled” in an overarching lie than with the less gravitationally-leveraged truth of Russian full-disclosure.
“Russia was not known to have these types of drones or to think in these terms,” said H.I. Sutton, an independent naval analyst.”
C’mon man, what kind of nonsensical analysis is this.
A 10 year old can obtain and build a remote controlled boat, car, airplane, UFO these days so one just might imagine a world class nation with world class rocket scientists who have sci-fi electronics and aeronautics at their disposal just might be able to figure it out in a year or two, lol.