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.

  • @kkluszEnglish
    -1•1 year ago

    Support for the war is high in Ukraine. Where did you get your sources for freedom of speech being suspended in Ukraine and people with anti war sentiments getting arrested?

    It’s ironic, you claim to care about the people, but you don’t care about what the people of Ukraine actually want.

    • Move to lemm.eeEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      Support for the war is high in Ukraine.

      Unreliable after everyone that opposed the war was arrested, or taped to lampposts and beaten in the state’s terror campaign carried out early on. My friends won’t openly say anything to government sources or ““media””.

      Where did you get your sources for freedom of speech being suspended in Ukraine and people with anti war sentiments getting arrested?

      Every single left wing party in the country was literally banned. If you don’t support the war you labelled “pro russia”. It’s not difficult to find examples of these arrests, and it’s not difficult to find the videos of the terror campaign that was waged. If you want some of those videos I can go find them for you but it’s pretty distressing watching hundreds of very deliberately public beatings to put fear into people, I really don’t recommend.

      Kiev has however moved to outlaw more leftist and opposition parties, taking steps to make a temporary ban on 11 opposition groups in March permanent.

      Ukraine faced criticism after introducing legislation banning the import and promotion of Russian books and music on Sunday.

      One of the new laws will forbid the printing of books by Russian nationals, unless they renounce their Russian passport and take Ukrainian citizenship. This will only apply to those who held Russian citizenship after the 1991 collapse of Soviet rule.

      Another law will prohibit the playing of music by people who gained Russian citizenship after 1991 on media and on public transport.

      Such freedom!

      • @kkluszEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        I see, thank you for letting me know! I see this is indeed more nuanced than I had thought.

        Can you provide any proof of the “tied to lampposts” claim? I’m fine with seeing video proof if you have it

        • Move to lemm.eeEnglish
          3•1 year ago

          Sure, March 2022. This was a light terror-campaign waged by Ukraine to bring citizenry that were anti-war inline. Do some very public punishments and shaming in order to inflict fear into people about the consequences of talking or opposing the regime. This was all on Twitter but as with most things in this war Telegram is the only place to get it from.

          Here are some examples:, CONTENT WARNING: Beatings, nudity and some racial violence.

          https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/3

          https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/13

          https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/33

          https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/48

          https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/58

          https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/64

          https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/89

          https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/91

          https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/111

          https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/117

          https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/118

          https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/119

          https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/120

          https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/121

          https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/122

          https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/123

          https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/168

          https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/169

          https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/170

          https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/171

          https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/182

          I’m not going to be a moralist about terror campaigns, they get waged quite often in countries at war because they work very well. The first thing socialists would do in a post-revolutionary country is wage a terror campaign to reduce the opposition. The only reason I raise these is because libs arguing that the people are “free” at the moment in this country are deluded about the reality of the situation.

          I recommend caution and critical thinking with that Telegram account too. It’s not just anti-war it’s pro-russia. The campaign that was waged shortly after the start of the war can’t really be denied though, there’s a lot more than this but I think it effectively paints the picture.

          • @kkluszEnglish
            1•1 year ago

            Wow, I see. Thank you for letting me see the evidence with my own eyes, and for your patience in this discussion. I’m sorry I was too quick to accuse you of bias.

            Honestly, this should be made more accessible than a Telegram post. But I guess it is hard to do alternative hosting.

            • Move to lemm.eeEnglish
              3•1 year ago

              We’re all biased. I think you’re right to assume anyone is. I just don’t stop pursuing more information on account of wanting to doggedly hold a single position.

              It was more accessible than a telegram post. But Twitter went on a very significant banning spree near the start of the war against anyone that was posting significant content that made ukraine look bad.

              My position on the war can be summed up as:

              1. Ukraine had a significant nazi problem before the war. It has worsened significantly since, contrary to the media presenting it as non-existent.

              2. The war was avoidable. But both nato and Russia could not come to terms.

              3. Nato, Ukraine and Russia all fucking suck and hundreds of thousands of families are being thrown into a meat grinder over global power shit that does not help anyone. I couldn’t give a shit who is in charge of what, I can’t stand any of them, the lives are more valuable to me than states or borders.

              4. This has nothing to do with genocide. But as with all wars there are war crimes being committed. The genocide angle is a convenient way to avoid the more complicated topic of the reason this war is happening, and it gives people a simple way to defend the continuation of the war by claiming that ending the war would result in a mass genocide (if that were the case they could just take up arms again when peace doesn’t work).

              5. Anyone claiming this is what people want is full of shit there is no freedom. Don’t get me started on the conscription gangs that go around beating and kidnapping any able-bodied men they see on the streets. There’s as many videos of that lately as there were of the terror campaign waged near the start.

              6. Only the US and Russia sitting down will end the war. The Ukrainian state has zero say in it. And neither do the people. Which as I keep pointing out are 2 separate entities that should be seen as such in every capitalist nation. Americans have zero say in what forever wars their rulers constantly get them into either. The sooner this happens the sooner lives stop being wasted and destroyed.