This time, the Crimean bridge was hit not by a missile, but by Ukrainian-made kamidze naval drones.
"Happy grandfather" (Putin) gathered the SobBez of the Russian Federation. They are again threatening to hit "decision-making centers".
Hit the saunas saunas or what?
Support No. 145 was damaged, as a result of which two spans were disabled.
The logistical supply of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation through Crimea is over. The route through the occupied part of mainland Ukraine is about 1,000 km longer.
⛔ Russian public distributes a map with the "Alternative route to Krym", which lies through the occupied Mariupol and Melitopol, close to the front line.
☠ Instead of warning their citizens not to go to Crimea at all and not to put themselves in danger, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will actually create a "human shield" for themselves out of civilians.
Columns of Russians fleeing Crimea stretched for many kilometers (highway in the direction of Melitopol).
After today's withdrawal of the Russians from the grain agreement, the price of wheat on the stock exchange increased by +3%.
💹 Within some countries dependent on Ukrainian wheat (Egypt, Algeria, etc.), the price jumped by +20%.
At the same time, Erdoğan politely made it clear that if the Russians attack Ukrainian grain ships, Turkey will not stop from sinking Russian ships (just as it did not hesitate to shoot down Russian planes).
The Russian army does not have weapons systems capable of successfully combating Ukrainian kamikaze naval drones
For a successful fight against semi-submersible kamikaze drones, it is necessary to detect them in a timely manner by means of space and aviation technical intelligence.
But the Russian space group is extremely small and unable to perform this task.
Russian naval aviation is more dead than alive. In order to detect these drones in a timely manner and target them with strike aircraft, it is necessary to ensure round-the-clock patrolling of the airspace over the Black Sea by anti-submarine patrol aircraft equipped with modern radar detection equipment for detecting surface and underwater objects. But according to open sources, the Russians have only 22 outdated Il-38 anti-submarine aircraft and about 20 Tu-142 in the Northern and Pacific fleets. All of them, according to their tactical and technical characteristics, do not meet the requirements of today and are significantly inferior to modern American anti-submarine aircraft Boeing P-8 Poseidon, of which only the USA has 128 and the allies have dozens. In addition, it is not known whether the outdated radar equipment of the Russian Il-38 and Tu-142 will be able to provide effective detection of small-sized Ukrainian kamikaze drones, even if the Russian Federation transfers these aircraft from the Northern Fleet to the Black Sea.
Another effective means of detecting semi-submersible kamikaze drones is long-range radar detection and control (LDLOi) aircraft, which easily detect surface sea targets. But the Russians have huge problems with this as well. The available nine obsolete A-50 (A-50U) aircraft manufactured in the eighties due to their small number are unable to meet all the needs of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, and they do not have the production of new.
And without long-range detection of semi-submersible kamikaze drones by technical means, with the subsequent targeting of strike aircraft at them, an effective fight against them "on distant frontiers" is impossible.
To combat the Ukrainian sea drone "Blyskavka", the Russians have only passive means - blocking the Kerch Strait with boom barriers, which proved their effectiveness even in the years of the First World War as a way of combating submarines. But judging by today's attack, there are no boom barriers in the Kerch Strait.
July 17, 2023.