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Jose Javier's avatar

Thanks don . .

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Gary Behrens's avatar

#2 read on to #3 thanks Don

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Hans Torvatn's avatar

Quite: «Months earlier, Russian bombs destroyed this bridge across the Oskil river. Ukraine built another bridge and Russia just destroyed it… « This is unsurprising, because bridges are of course a nice target. But is there any alternative? Difficult to get supplies across otherwise. Which of course explains the problems with the bridgehead across Dnieper.

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Donald Hill's avatar

There's often alternatives. In this case, there are secondary roads and even dirt roads, but this road was much shorter and of higher quality, so the Ukrainians built another bridge.

It's like when the Kerch bridge or the other bridges in Crimea were destroyed. There were alternative routes, but the benefits of these crossings were good enough to warrant repairs and reconstruction.

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Esperanza's avatar

Спасибо

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Andrew Tanner's avatar

Is it just me, or does Twitter actively remove pro-Ukraine content all the time now?

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Nick Fotis's avatar

That first link from Orlivka is quite sobering. These damned craters from the FAB bombs are monstrous (and these are quite destructive).

It's important to stop the Russian air force lobbing these bruisers against Ukraine defenses (are there similar JDAMs in USA armories?)

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