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.

  • Heresy_generator@kbin.social
    8610·
    1 year ago

    Russian speaking != Russian. A majority in Crimea voted for independence from Russia in 1991 and that desire for independence from Russia did not lessen between 1991 and 2014 when Russia’s imperial war of conquest against Ukraine began.

    • Filthmontane@lemmy.world
      1650·
      1 year ago

      A majority of Russians rose up in opposition against the Ukrainian government during the Ukrainian revolution in support of Russian annexation. You can’t just ignore that a large number of people in Crimea were onboard with annexation.

      • andyburke@kbin.social
        308·
        1 year ago

        Certainly can, and will! Nothing justifies another country just annexing that territory. Nothing. No amount of you talking will justify it. No number of people there who speak Russian justify it. There is no justification.

        • Filthmontane@lemmy.world
          1326·
          1 year ago

          So, you don’t care about the people or how they feel about anything? So when the people in Crimea felt they were being treated unfairly by the Ukrainian government, they should’ve just put up with it instead of standing up for themselves? With that attitude, the US would still be a British territory.

      • fidodo@lemmy.world
        167·
        1 year ago

        Then do it democratically through referendums. An illegal war is inexcusable. Claiming land is yours because there are people from your country there is textbook fascist strategy.

        • Black AOC@lemmygrad.ml
          8·
          1 year ago

          Manifest Destiny is calling; are you going to call Amerikans fascists for their living on stolen land?

        • Stovetop@lemmy.world
          72·
          1 year ago

          To offer an example, this was Hitler’s basis for invading and annexing the Sudetenland, part of what was then Czechoslovakia.

      • InverseParallax@lemmy.world
        1513·
        1 year ago

        I’m going to quote this next year when Xi annexes Sakalin.

        Russia has been too large for too long, it should have been split into a dozen separate countries centuries ago.

        • Packet@lemmygrad.ml
          1·
          1 year ago

          Yeah man, I agree. USA should do so too. Ya know, too big of a country eh? Texas and Florida should separate and California following them as an example. Especially California, I hate California.

          • InverseParallax@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 year ago

            It’s funny you say that, because both California and texas each have a larger GDP than russia by themselves.

            Of course that was before the catastrophic failure of a war, now I’m sure Russia’s smaller than Florida too.

            BTW, it’s pronounced “Knee-how”, just to help you for next year.

    • Move to lemm.ee@lemmy.world
      1364·
      1 year ago

      Sure. But that doesn’t really change the census data much.

      This applies to Donetsk and Luhansk too. All three of these regions were ethnic majority Russian, and the separatism kicked off when the Maidan government banned the Russian language in official government usage (schools, local institutions etc).