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.

  • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I couldn’t care less what this fascist’s take is, and I find it really sus that you admonished me on the mistake with whoever that golden dawn guy was but then refer to a fascist yourself while calling him a liberal.

    You know where those “fascist” accusations come from? Precisely that kind of stuff, “X belongs to Russia”. Anyhow I cited him as an example of the opposition FFS, not because I share those kinds of view which should’ve been obvious. As to “liberal”: That’s exactly what he’s classed as in Russia. After the 2022 invasion portions of the opposition did start to reflect on imperialism in a more thorough manner than “doing things by force bad but actually yes Ukraine is Russia” but with the current state of things, well, prison, keeping their head down, or in exile. Not to mention that opposition is not exactly a majority position the majority position is “I don’t care about politics that’s a thing for politicians I just want to have a job and a Dacha”. Utter depoliticisation. Fatalism runs deep in Russia.

    “Procedure” is whatever people will popularly accept in an event like this. You get to make it up as you go along and as long as the various factions willing to do violence will agree with it you’re good.

    Well, point being that they didn’t have to make it up but an ordinary impeachment procedure would’ve taken a while. In any case any iffiness resulting from that, questions about constitutionality etc. were made up for by elections not soon after. Also, Yanukovych already had fled, the office of president was de facto without incumbent.

    Yet you referred to the whole thing as a “coup/revolution”. It was, big picture and the result, neither of those two but the people not liking that the government they elected reneged on promises and then had themselves new elections for a new government: Neither did suddenly the military reign (coup), nor did the country get a complete make-over, new constitution etc. (revolution), it was a, well, let’s call it a special electoral operation. In more established democracies those things happen more smoothly and without violence, but early elections aren’t exactly a particularly rare thing. Yanukovych probably assumed his handlers would send him backup just as they had in Belarus.

    Yanukovych’s protest law btw was much iffier when it comes to constitutionality as the Rada didn’t actually have the votes to pass it. Also, shit only really hit the fan once he doubled down like that.

    Some of it was a communist effort.

    Yeah I know but they’re irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. Communists of the type you refer to exist all over Europe, they’re tiny, cultist, splinter factions. Well-organised but without the manpower to do anything, least of all stage a revolution. Do I need to remind you that “done by people calling themselves communist” doesn’t imply “popular support”, which you were insinuating. In this situation they were useful idiots for the FSB.