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.

  • Lenins2ndCat@lemmy.world
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    What you’re citing there is a question to the Commission, not a research paper. The guy posing that question? A Greek Nazi, becoming MEP on a Golden Dawn ticket. Here’s the answer:

    Yeah this was just pointed out to me. Which is why I went and dug out some other stuff instead, I’m not particularly fond of relying on that one and won’t be using it in future.

    A couple of western media articles discussing the split the existing language law was causing in the country:

    2000: Ukraine wages war on Russian language

    2012: Russian language debate splits Ukraine

    2012: Ukrainians(far right) protest against Russian language law

    2014(when the law actually occurred): Ukraine Revokes Linguistic Rights

    This last one is the most interesting, also 2014 from Time: Many Ukrainians Want Russia To Invade

    Within two days of taking power, the revolutionary leaders passed a bill revoking the rights of Ukraine’s regions to make Russian an official language alongside Ukrainian. That outraged the Russian-speaking half of the country, and the ban was quickly lifted. But the damage was done. With that one ill-considered piece of legislation, the new leaders had convinced millions of ethnic Russians that a wave of repression awaited them. So it was no surprise on Friday when a livid mob in Crimea attacked a liberal lawmaker who came to reason with them. Struggling to make his case over the screaming throng, Petro Poroshenko was chased back to his car amid cries of “fascist!”

    Is this article a hallucination too? This aggressive response is quite unnecessary. Have a more academic conversation.

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      Yeah this was just pointed out to me.

      By me I just couldn’t let it stand so I called it out twice, but there’s no need to duplicate the whole thread.

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        Oh lol we’re having the same conversation twice? I didn’t even notice I often don’t look at usernames. Sorry.