Daniel Boffey – The Guardian Aug 12, 2023
Ukraine has made several attempts to destroy the bridge linking Russia with Crimea but has so far only managed to close it partially. Click to enlarge
Ukrainian forces fired three missiles at the bridge connecting occupied Crimea to Russia, forcing Russian authorities to cover the structure in white smoke to deter further attacks and prompting a furious threat of retaliation.
In the latest example of Kyiv taking the war to Russia, multiple guided S-200 rockets were fired at Kerch Bridge but they were seemingly shot down by local air defences.
A further 20 Ukrainian unmanned drones attacked targets in Crimea, the Ukrainian territory illegally annexed by the Kremlin in 2014, but Russian officials said they had also been successfully neutralised.
Russia’s foreign ministry condemned what they described as a terrorist attack and warned that it would not go unanswered.
White smoke was seen billowing from the bridge on Saturday morning but Russian air defence forces said they downed the Ukrainian missiles. The cloud of smoke was said to have been deployed in an attempt to deter a further attack.
“Air defence forces shot down two enemy missiles over the Kerch Strait. The [bridge] was not damaged,” said Sergei Aksyonov, the Russian-installed governor of the Crimean peninsula, as he urged those living in Crimea to remain calm.
He later said that a third had been downed over the Kerch Strait.
Interfax news agency reported that the bridge had been briefly shut to traffic but that it had later reopened.
Of the 20 unmanned drones launched at targets in Crimea, 14 were downed by air defence systems and six more through electronic warfare, the Russian defence ministry said.
Kerch Bridge, which is the only direct link between the transport network of Russia and the Crimean peninsula, was a flagship project for Vladimir Putin, who opened it for road traffic to great fanfare by driving a truck across in 2018.
…I quit reading after “illegally annexed by The Kremlin”. That tells you this website is run by Globalist Prostitutes, so there is no need to read it.
RJ O’Guillory: You have to expect this from the Guardian, which isn’t just fake news, it’s also fake left wing.
Go back to when Blair and Bush were planning invading Iraq, it was the Guardian which published the most war mongering blood thirsty article from the British fake news. So gruesome were these double page spreads, that I couldn’t finish them. BTW, this was in the day when I purchased 4/5 papers per say. Read the New Statesman, the Economist and the FT, which I got for free. In those days there was something to be gained, but now, pointless, and they are pay walled. The Daily Fail is my fake news barometer, and even this is a tiresome struggle.
RJ O’G —
This website publishes stuff from all over which is why I like it.
The official “Western” position is that if was illegally annexed but so what? They say that in a lot of stuff. Some of these writers put in the official platitudes to get out information, nothing more.
Learn how to discriminate while you read. Some smart stuff out there pretending to be “regime friendly” but giving out facts you might not see elsewhere.
all Ukraine will come back
HOME TO THE RUSSIAN REICH !
where it once belonged .