The Ukraine war thread

[Ivorythumper]

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in The Ukraine war thread:

BBC is saying only the road portion is destroyed. Damn. They need to try again.

In the comments:

For clarity, Mash is a Russian media source which was founded by former Life News employees. We should be skeptical of a fast Russian repair but this video is circulating in Russia, so it’s worth paying attention to

As an engineer I would doubt that the cleanup operation would happen so fast, damage was extensive and removal of molten wheels under many tons of metal without a place for a crane is no easy task

Highly dubious, as a structural engineer, the heat of the fire will have weakened to core reinforcement of the bridge and caused thermal cracking to concrete in compression. The bridge might be standing but will deflect beyond safe tolerances for trains passing at speed. So trains would have to slow to a crawl pace to cope with deflections also trains loading will probably be severely reduced. A choke point (slow zone) on a rail network chokes all capacity and provides a busy location for optimal targeting.

Good thing it's dark so you can't actually tell if this is the bridge

Well. „A train is passing a railway“ yes. Crimea bridge? Not sure - gravel ground on a bridge?

[Renauda]

@jon-nyc said in The Ukraine war thread:

BBC is saying only the road portion is destroyed. Damn. They need to try again.

All the same, T. E. Lawrence smiled.

That’s all that really matters at this point.

[Renauda]

[George K]

Thread: "I've had some demolitions training."

[George K]

[jon-nyc]

[George K]

[LuFins Dad]

Desert Storm in 1990 was the CNN War. Is this the Twitter War? The use of memes and 5 second video clips with Ukrainian Pop Songs is so strange…

[George K]

[Renauda]

@George-K

Brilliant!

[Mik]

I love those.

[George K]

Cigarette!

[George K]

He probably said this with a straight face, too.

[George K]

[George K]

This is entirely symbolic, as the German consulate has not functioned since February

Its a warning shot to EU diplomats, which follows months of veiled and real threats from Russian lawmakers and media outlets against Western officials visiting Kyiv

[George K]

[George K]

[Renauda]

Sadly from what I can see in Russian language media and online sources this is true:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63205446

For example:

[Mik]

No longer rational.