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On August 12 afternoon, Russian air defense intercepted two incoming missiles over the Crimean Bridge, according to the region’s governor, Sergey Aksenov.
“Air defenses have shot down two enemy rockets in the Kerch Strait area,” the governor said on his Telegram channel. “Crimean Bridge has not been damaged.”
Photos and videos that surfaced on social media showed what appears to be several columns of white smoke billowing from the bridge. Aksenov’s aide, Oleg Kryuchkov, revealed that a “smoke screen has been set off by the special services.” He also wrote that the Crimean Bridge would be reopened to vehicles “very soon.”
In a statement, the Russian Defense Ministry said that Ukraine attempted to conduct a “terrorist strike” on the Crimean Bridge using Soviet-era S-200 anti-aircraft missiles which were converted into ground attack missiles.
Russian air defenses “detected the Ukrainian rocket in a timely manner and intercepted it in mid-air,” the ministry said, adding that the failed missile attack had not caused any casualties or material losses.
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In the early morning, Ukraine attempted to attack the Crimean Peninsula with 20 suicide drones. 14 of the drones were destroyed by air defenses systems, while the remaining six were jammed by electronic warfare means. No losses were reported as a result of the attack.
Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova condemned “terror attacks” on the Crimean Peninsula, warning of a near response.
“Such barbaric actions cannot be justified and will not go unanswered,” Zakharova said in a statement.
The Kiev regime stepped up missile and drone attacks on Russian territory in recent weeks in what appears to be an attempt to distract public attention from the failed counteroffensive of its forces and their heavy losses.
russia will do nothing because it refuses to remove the gloves, the worst example is donetsk where the situation has never changed and the ukrainian army is still at the gates of the city, extremely tiring to see this every week
yes, i’ve been very keen for avdeevka to be cleared of nazi’s, pronto, since 2014 as i have a friend who lives in donetsk, and others in alchevk and mariupol. i’m suggesting carpet bombing the super-dug-in fortifications of avdeevka and then a surging offensive to clear that area and give donetsk relief, finally.
i keep thinking there will be a massive russian offensive once the nazis have been worn down and that can’t be long, but yes its sickening to see donetsk still being hit, russia should have warned the kiev regime that maidan will be levelled if they continue.
a few foabs should be enough to level avdeevka completely but sadly they are sitting in warehouses.
tak toto je už veľa, je ozaj čas začať konať. takéto útoky by sa nemali viac opakovať. ešte dobre, že ich ruské vojská dokázali odraziť. uvidíme z čím príde moskva!!! tá zatiaľ nikdy neponechala takéto útoky bez patričnej odozvy.
i think russia keeps the bridges over the dnieper river open so the nazis can get to the grinder while the fight goes on with short supply line for russia and massively long ones for nazis. the long term goal being to eventually take even more of the denazified ukraine. if they blew the bridges it would actually be harder to kill them all.
why would you suntan in the range of a place that gets hit by enemy missiles? they seem either oblivious or not care about the fact that the same milliles can hit them as well. ukraine and the west would celebrate dead russians who “illegaly suntanned in russian ocupied crimea” as much as they would the destruction of the bridge. they would probably get a nobel peace price for it.
if you live under the threat of death every single day, you become accustomed to it. to these people, a ukrainian terrorist attack is like taking your morning coffee for you.
ukronazis shell the russian civilians since 2014 , we have now 2023 and people know what is the war.
plumes of smoke were seen and recorded on the kerch bridge, ruzzian propaganda is hilarious 🔥🔥🔥 😆😆😆 tomsawyers comment in the previous article. lmao the plumes of smoke turned out to be a smoke screen set off by special services. afu and their trolls are getting very desperate.
russian sams are junk.
poor ukies 2 months of a failing counter offensive; even their western friends know its a lost cause
a publicity stunt to anger the kremlin and for americans who live in a media disneyland to gain support for this crime against both russia and ukraine because fewer people now support money to ukraine.
one thing is very clear and the whole world sees it: ukraine-nato repeatedly and successfully attacks the most important bridge in russia but russia never attacks or destroys any bridge in ukraine. so, before the world, russia seems like cyprus and its leader the dalai lama.
french nazi?
nazi for telling the truth??
not correct, example kherson. i suppose there are reasons why other bridges upon dnjepr are not destroyed yet , sure not because russia is not able to manage it. but i admit i don’t know why.
repeatedly : yes ; successfully : no
frog propose russia emulates amerikan immorality
time to take the us puppet zalenski out of the equation. every day makes him more a hero in the eyes of those in the west. by failing to do so russia is making a future bandera out of him and his neo nazi’s .
finally, atacms has been supplied to the ukrainian army! us gave green light to aim for crimea: russia starts the massive evacuation
these are dangerous us and nato attacks under the excuse of ukraine. they are psychopathic evil degenerates and any changes for a media narrative they will try. desperation is dangerous.