{"id":259679,"date":"2022-10-09T08:19:46","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T08:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=259679"},"modified":"2022-10-11T06:44:44","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T06:44:44","slug":"car-bomb-sparks-huge-fire-on-crimea-bridge-celebrations-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=259679","title":{"rendered":"Car bomb sparks huge fire on Crimea bridge, celebrations in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction \u2013 Oct 9, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The West is using Ukraine as a proxy against Russia, in a campaign that is intended to contain and ultimately undermine Russia\u2019s burgeoning power. In the process, however, they are pushing the whole world toward a much wider conflict.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because Russia is not simply going to sit back and allow this to happen.<\/p>\n

First, Putin launched his Special Military Operation in Ukraine. The objective was to neutralise Ukraine\u2019s growing military power, which with extensive western support,<\/a> Moscow perceived as a threat to its Western border and to the Russian-speaking population of eastern Ukraine.<\/p>\n

The West has responded by providing Kiev with literally billions more in military aid and support. As it has done so relations Moscow and the West have dramatically deteriorated.<\/p>\n

Now, with the bombing of the bridge linking Russia and Ukraine, the West’s objectives in supporting Ukraine are becoming clearer. Washington and London are using Ukraine as a proxy in a war against Russia.<\/p>\n

They did the same with their covert support of Islamic State militants in Syria. Fortunately for President Assad, Russia stepped and successfully neutralised the Western backed militants (see here <\/a>and here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

That frustrated Western plans in the Middle East. So it was decided to deal with Russia more directly and take the conflict to its western border and Russia responded with a limited campaign to neutralise the threat.<\/p>\n

However, the West has responded in turn with literally billions in military aid to Kiev. Without such support the regime in Kiev would have come to terms with Moscow months ago<\/a>. So the West has effectively prolonged the war and in the process is pushing us all toward a much wider conflict.<\/p>\n

Because Moscow has seen that its limited Special Military Operation has run into difficulties. So we suspect that it may decide to take its gloves off and strike at Kiev\u2019s western backers directly. Ed.<\/p>\n

Car bomb sparks huge fire on Crimea bridge, celebrations in Ukraine<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Press TV \u2013 Oct 8, 2022<\/strong><\/h2>\n

A car bomb blast on a key road and rail bridge linking Crimea to Russia has sparked a massive fire, prompting gleeful messages from Ukrainian officials but no direct claim of responsibility.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Russia said the blast set ablaze seven oil tankers by transported by train and collapsed two car lanes of the giant road and rail structure.<\/p>\n

Dramatic social media footage showed the bridge on fire with parts plunging into the sea.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday at 6:07 am (0307 GMT) on the road traffic side of the Crimean bridge \u2026 a car bomb exploded, setting fire to seven oil tankers being carried by rail to Crimea,\u201d Russia\u2019s national anti-terrorism committee said on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Shortly after initial conflicting reports about damages inflicted on the bridge connecting Russian mainland to the Crimea peninsula, Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak declared in a Twitter message that the bombing was \u201cthe beginning\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything illegal must be destroyed, everything stolen must be returned to\u00a0Ukraine, everything occupied by\u00a0Russia\u00a0must be expelled,\u201d Podolyak wrote.<\/p>\n

The bridge,\u00a0constructed on the orders of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was\u00a0inaugurated in 2018, four years after\u00a0Crimea voted in a referendum to become part of Russia following a Western-backed uprising in 2014 that ousted a pro-Moscow administration in Kiev.<\/p>\n

Russia’s foreign ministry said Ukraine’s reaction to the\u00a0huge blast showed Kyiv’s “terrorist nature”.<\/p>\n

“The reaction of the Kiev regime to the destruction of civilian infrastructure shows its terrorist nature,” the ministry’s spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Telegram.<\/p>\n

Ukraine says\u00a0the bridge served as a key transport link for carrying military equipment to Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine, especially in the south.<\/p>\n

Moscow had\u00a0maintained that the bridge was safe despite the ongoing skirmishes, but threatened Kiev with reprisals if it attacked the vital transport route.<\/p>\n

The Kremlin spokesman said Putin had ordered a commission to be set up to look into the blast, Russian news agencies reported.<\/p>\n

Russia’s powerful investigative committee opened a criminal probe into the explosion and sent detectives to the scene.<\/p>\n

It said a truck exploded “on the automobile part of the Crimean bridge from the side of the Taman Peninsula”.<\/p>\n

This “caused seven fuel tanks to ignite on a train heading towards the Crimea Peninsula. As a result, two lanes partially collapsed.”<\/p>\n

While officials in Moscow stopped short of blaming Kiev, an official in Crimea pointed the finger at “Ukrainian vandals”.<\/p>\n

There have been several explosions at Russian military installations in the Crimean peninsula and if it is established that Ukraine was behind the latest blast, alarm bells may sound with the bridge so far from the front line.<\/p>\n

The blasts come after Ukraine’s recent lightning territorial gains in the east and south.<\/p>\n

Russia-backed forces claim gains in eastern Ukraine<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Russian forces declared that they had captured ground in eastern Donetsk region, after Kiev\u2019s recent claims of grabbing momentum with a counter-offensive that forced a Russian withdrawal.<\/p>\n

Russia-backed forces in the Donetsk region said they had reclaimed a series of villages near the Ukraine-controlled industrial town of Bakhmut.<\/p>\n

Four territories which\u00a0create a crucial land corridor between Russia and the Crimean peninsula joined Moscow in a recent referendum not recognized by Ukraine and the West.<\/p>\n

Ukraine’s Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov on Friday called on Russian forces to\u00a0lay down their arms, vowing that their lives would be spared and they would be safe.<\/p>\n

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A huge truck bombing of the bridge linking Crimea to Russia caused parts of it to collapse. Although subsequent reports suggest that several lanes have since reopened, the Western-backed conflict is getting closer to Russia and as it does so the risk of an all-out war with Russia is growing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":259681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Commentary","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=259679"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259687,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259679\/revisions\/259687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/259681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}