The bridge suffered damage after one of its sections was blown up, killing two people and wounding a child.

Traffic on the single bridge that links Russia to Moscow-annexed Crimea and serves as a key supply route for the Kremlin’s forces in the war with Ukraine came to a standstill on Monday after one of its sections was blown up, killing a couple and wounding their daughter.

The RBC Ukraine news agency reported that explosions were heard on the bridge, with Russian military bloggers reporting two strikes.

RBC Ukraine and another Ukrainian news outlet Ukrainska Pravda said the attack was planned jointly by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and the Ukrainian navy, and involved sea drones.

  • Nukemin Herttua@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    1 year ago

    There is an easy way to end the war: Russian withdrawal. It really is as simple as that.

    At any point in history Russian Federation had no right or business to occupy any part of Ukraine. It was up to Ukraine to decide what to do with those areas.

    While we all want the war to stop, it cannot be done at any price. Ukraine must be allowed to return the areas stolen from it and Russia must return to pre 2014 borders. Either they do it willingly or with force. No one likes it, but it’s Russia that chose to attack, not Ukraine.

    I hope your friends are safe, but at the same time I hope they have the sense to leave Crimea until things settle.

    And let’s hope for peace, but recognize that it cannot be achieved by giving into the offender’s demands.

    • Move to lemm.ee@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      There is an easy way to end the war: Russian withdrawal. It really is as simple as that.

      Not physically possible under russian law.

      While we all want the war to stop, it cannot be done at any price. Ukraine must be allowed to return the areas stolen from it and Russia must return to pre 2014 borders. Either they do it willingly or with force. No one likes it, but it’s Russia that chose to attack, not Ukraine.

      Again, this is not possible under Russian law. The notion that it’ll be done with force is similarly unrealistic, nukes would fly before these were taken by force. But before that happens you’d have to see the removal of the Russian warships off the coast which will be obliterating anything that comes near Crimea. It just isn’t ever happening without a navy or an airforce.

      I hope your friends are safe, but at the same time I hope they have the sense to leave Crimea until things settle.

      They’re fine for now. It’s relatively quiet there because the defensive line is so far away, barring these bridge incidents.

      And let’s hope for peace, but recognize that it cannot be achieved by giving into the offender’s demands.

      We’d be there already if not for boris fucking johnson. I really don’t know why you care about the “offender’s demands” either. Are you a nationalist? People are what matter. I could not give a shit about what flag exists between the two, right now it’s just a situation where two extremely shit sides throw thousands of lives into a meatgrinder and all I want to see is the meatgrinder stop.