The Ukraine war thread

Renauda

@George-K

Was that before or after the ballroom dancers?

Mik

Someone tweeted that the irony is that's a 90's Ukrainian pop song.

Aqua Letifer

@Mik said in The Ukraine war thread:

Someone tweeted that the irony is that's a 90's Ukrainian pop song.

Maybe that was deliberate? Selling the liberation B.S.?

bachophile

Round of bridge anyone???

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

Thread on what this could mean:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1578617196661833733.html

jon-nyc

Huge deal. Another thread from before it blew describing the importance.

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

@jon-nyc said in The Ukraine war thread:

Huge deal.

I haven't read Jon's thread yet, but some geography is useful.

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I've read that Crimean grocers are limiting purchases to 3 kg per purchase.

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

@jon-nyc that's a fabulous thread on strategy, logistics, ect.

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

Mik

Good news. Would love to know how they pulled it off, but probably best that we don't.

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

@Mik said in The Ukraine war thread:

Would love to know how they pulled it off,

Several reports said that a truck blew up. Not sure if I believe that, looking at locations where the damage occurred. They seem to be spread out.

jon-nyc

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

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

@jon-nyc I hope the BBC is wrong...

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

Mik

Closed until 10/31. Plenty of time to let them work on it then hit it again.

Ivorythumper

@George-K said in The Ukraine war thread:

Escape foiled:

I don't think I would have run for the car...

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

@jon-nyc said in The Ukraine war thread:

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

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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?

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