Trains Resume On Crimea Bridge Hit By Blast: Russian Operator

[Warpy]

48. I'm not a CE, so thanks for directing me to that post

What didn't look fine to me was the road bed, it's definitely lower in one section. A train is going to go into the sea if they try to use it as it is. I doubt any train engineer worthy of the title is going to make the trip without a gun to his head.

I think the announcement that the bridge is peachy fine is pure propaganda while they scramble to find a good land route to supply their southern troops. Since all land routes are within range of the Ukrainian forces, they're basically screwed without that bridge.

A real mystery is just what hit it. Military guys said it would take a Tomahawk or foreign equivalent to do that much damage, nothing else has the range plus payload, and there has been no word that anyone has supplied those to Ukraine. Whatever did the damage, it was doubly lucky (for Ukraine) that the train was stopped at a signal and was hauling something that burned as it spilled out (my guess is jet fuel. The train bridge is really the one that needed to be taken out. It's still standing, but just.