Has reportedly collapsed after a Ukraine airforce attack on a convoy of russian ammunition crossing it detonated a massive explosion.
Locals report.
Meanwhile Russia claimes to have traced the killer of Darya Dugina.
Surprise surprise it was a Ukrainian woman with a 12 year old daughter who fled to, wait for it, evil Estonia.
I don't think the bridge actually collapsed but it took a huge hit.
Imagine being a russian soldier being ordered to drive in a convoy of ammunition across a bridge already seriously weakened and with no air cover against HIMARS attact.
Huge explosions in Sevastopol, also nearly Inkerman.
Re the assassination, a ruble to a kopeck it is indeed internal feuding This Ukrainian woman with the daughter somehow managed to turn off the CCTV days before the attack. No CCTV should tell you a lot.
thanks Itch
so leddy who was photographed wivda baby
was just a decoy ( shill?) - an innocent walk-in?
This is the plot from Cluny's Syriana by the way. sad it is.
There is on tv a good series - being a spy - - or becoming a spy
They do Russians killing dissidents alot - because the Russians do it alot. I hadnt realised that Skripal was a spy swap - -- so why kill him? - - and it was easy to track Lugovoy who killed Litvinow, with a geiger counter and he glowed on CCTV
I was in the same class as Nigel West, but didnt lose as much ,oney by falsifying evidence in a libel trial.
oh, and Skripal at Slaisbury was still blurred - an air-ambulance comes oudda nowhere to whisk him away to Odstock. Yet for the two dossers, they lie poisoned in a bed ( same bed probably) in Lesser Scrutville Cottage Hospital. The doctors scratching their heads and musing - "two others have been poisoned and these two have EXACTLY the same signs so we think it probably cant be" It was
This woman who they are accusing (and it's disappointing to see the western press lapping it up) was supposedly tracked by the FSB, who knew her every move, and did nothing, including letting her travel to Estonia!
If you believe that you also have to believe that the FSB is mind numbingly incompetent and doesn't mind people knowing.
And the Russian authorities have not actually asked Estonia for any help in tracking her down.
It's complete nonsense.
Yes Skripal was a swap.
The "why kill him" question was asked a lot at the time.
And probably still is.
Litvinenko was killed for exposing links between organised criminals in Spain and the Kremlin.
That bridge by the way, by all accounts, really is knackered.
Ukraine volunteers have been briefed by their commanders to send their family members, if possible, out of cities in preparation for a possible independence day blitz, based on intelligence.
I thnk Kharkiv is locked down until Thursday.
"it was easy to track Lugovoy who killed Litvinow, with a geiger counter and he glowed on CCTV2
In fact, as I recall, the radiation emitted by polonium 210 was alpha waves, which would not be picked up by conventional geiger counters.
It was said at the time that had they not messed the killing up by spilling some of it, Litvinenko would have died a quicker death with no apparent symtoms, and his death would have remained an untracked mystery.
Re Sanctions - If not already done I think the West should also cut off all co-operation with Russia regarding space programs / orbital space stations etc.