#Ukraine: Kerch Bridge damaged by 21st Century Fireships (drones). Brad Bowman, FDD.
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🗓️ 18 July 2023
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#Ukraine: Kerch Bridge damaged by 21st Century Fireships (drones). Brad Bowman, FDD.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/crimea-bridge-why-is-it-important-what-happened-it-2023-07-17/
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| 0:42.3 | Connecting Russia to Crimea, the Bloomberg News Report. |
| 0:48.4 | Two Ukrainian drones caused explosions that damaged the flagship bridge to Crimea, |
| 0:54.0 | killing two people and causing the suspension of road and rail traffic. |
| 0:58.8 | We go to London reporting saying an emergency meeting at the Kremlin over this event. |
| 1:04.8 | All things have to be carefully understood. |
| 1:08.2 | There's no confirmation in a war. The first three reports are often wrong. |
| 1:12.3 | But a variety of sources now are pointing to damage to the |
| 1:16.4 | Kirchbridge in some fashion. It's not tumbled into the sea. This isn't a spectacular |
| 1:21.6 | guns of Navarone moment. But it does point to a major weakness for the Russian |
| 1:27.9 | defensive Crimea and in the Donbass. I welcome Brad Bowman of the Foundation for the |
| 1:33.2 | Defensive Democracies to help me understand first the tactical value of the Kirchbridge, |
| 1:40.4 | the strategic value of maintaining connection between Russian Crimea and what we know about the |
| 1:47.9 | Ukrainian counteroffensive so far. Then we will also speak of the NATO after the NATO summit results. |
| 1:55.6 | Brad, a very good evening to you. The attack on the Kirchbridge. As I recall in 2022, |
| 2:01.0 | it was a missile that landed on the bridge and there was momentarily an exciting |
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