Crimean Bridge
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Sep 19, 2026
Alexander MercourisHOST
The interesting thing about the Zatoka Bridge is that, of course, it's a Soviet construction, but it's built across a bay, of the Black Sea.
Alexander MercourisHOST
So it, to some extent, though on a much smaller scale, obviously, resembles the Crimean Bridge.
Alexander MercourisHOST
Logistically, it is extremely important for Ukraine because southwestern Ukraine, the area around Odessa, the communication lines are all being cut off.
Alexander MercourisHOST
And the Zatoka Bridge is as important for those communications as, say, the Crimean Bridge is for Russian communications with Crimea.
Alexander MercourisHOST
The Ukrainians, as we know, made many attempts to damage and destroy the Crimean Bridge.
Alexander MercourisHOST
They never succeeded.
Alexander MercourisHOST
Now the Russians are coming after the Zatoka Bridge.
Bojan PancevskiGUEST
They were fighting Russia in the occupied territories of Ukraine and sometimes in Russia proper itself with clandestine missions infiltrating Russian military intelligence structures et cetera.
Bojan PancevskiGUEST
So th- they drafted a, a list of, of potential targets within Russia or around Russia that served Russia's national interest in that, that they facilitated the export of oil and gas The targets included the gas fields in Siberia, the Kerch Bridge which connects, uh, the occupied Crimean Peninsula with Russian mainland and Nord Stream, the pipeline system.
Bojan PancevskiGUEST
What they did is they rented a boat, a sailing yacht which set sail from German shores, from the island of Rügen in the Baltic.
Bojan PancevskiGUEST
Initially, the boat had a crew of six, three military officers belonging to that special forces unit I mentioned.
Chay BowesGUEST
I wouldn't be surprised if the idea to shoot down Russian aircraft didn't come from within the European Union.
Chay BowesGUEST
It didn't come from within MI6, certainly from within the Germans, who remember we've had recordings of German generals plotting how to blow up a civilian bridge in Crimea, the Kerch Bridge, i.e. shared that actual recording, one of the first people to share it when it happened back in 2023, I think, to suggest that they wouldn't become mired in the most grisly of terrorist atrocities in order to try to pull Vladimir Putin into a position where he will actually do what they suggest he's already doing through this hybrid war.
Chay BowesGUEST
I think now, as I've said for many, many years now, certainly during this conflict, the most dangerous thing Russia can do is win the war in Ukraine.
George GallowayHOST
Now, I today attended, albeit virtually, from very far, by dialing in, the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, in the Russian Far East.
Chip ChapmanGUEST
We're not quite there yet, but they're sort of getting That sort of success, whether that translates into some sort of political momentum for them and against Russia, again, is another thing to be seen.
Chip ChapmanGUEST
And one of the things I always say is I think they're deliberately leaving open the Kerch Bridge so that people can flee because there's nothing worse than both civilians and the military withdrawing in panic.
Chip ChapmanGUEST
When that occurs in generally in armies and people seem to down tools and things happen, including in a revolutionary way.
Chip ChapmanGUEST
So that is one of the ways that they may be approaching this in the same way that there may be parts of the Russian Federation, particularly around Tatarstan, that they're not hitting because there's a potential for those parts of the Federation to break away if the right conditions prevail from the center of Russian power.
Stanley JohnyGUEST
And by taking control of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia, and Kherson, the Russians have also established a land bridge between mainland Russia and the Crimean Peninsula.
Stanley JohnyGUEST
Earlier, you had the Kerch Bridge across the Kerch Strait, but now there is a land bridge as well, connecting Crimea with mainland Russia, right? And besides these five provinces, the Russians have also taken bits of Kharkiv in the northeast, And they have also taken territories in Dnipro in the center.
Stanley JohnyGUEST
So this is where the war stands on the battlefield.
Stanley JohnyGUEST
But at the same time, from 2026 onwards, the Ukrainians have given greater emphasis on the land war, mainly because they knew that the Russians clearly have an advantage in the land war.
David MillerGUEST
But let's be clear, this is not just covert operations which are propaganda operations, which I can talk much more about, but also covert operations which are actual military operations.
David MillerGUEST
So the HMB Russia unit was involved in coordinating the Kerch Bridge bombing operation, which was carried out by British military intelligence agents with Ukrainian counterparts.
David MillerGUEST
They were involved in the Kursk intervention, invasion of Russia, so British personnel were involved in invading Russia.
David MillerGUEST
They were involved in the alleged Bucha massacre, when Russians were supposed to have killed large numbers of civilians just prior to leaving Bucha as part of an agreed, what looked like a settlement, which of course our Prime Minister at the time, Boris Johnson, put the kibosh on so this is not just covert operations in the sense of misinformation but also actual military operations coordinated from what seems to be a perfectly innocent policy unit within the foreign office so I think that's a pretty extraordinary thing to find out and so I wrote about it a wee while ago
Decoding TrollsHOST
Here is the institution behind the clause.
Decoding TrollsHOST
The same week the bombers burned a host on SBU crime and punishment and the boom report was dreaming about the Kerch Bridge, Russia's illegal bridge to occupied Crimea.
Decoding TrollsHOST
But, I quote, but hopefully the GUR or the SBU will broadcast live from Russian CCTV cameras when the thing starts going like the Tacoma narrow bridge, right? And the spans stop dropping.
Decoding TrollsHOST
That's my fan fiction.
Mark McNameeHOST
I will just jump on your previous point because I like what you said.
Mark McNameeHOST
And I morally, of course, we want to say, no, don't let Russians out of the country and all this type of stuff, right? So Magyar here, the head of the drone forces, right? They asked him, if you guys have these capabilities, why haven't you taken out the Kerch Bridge? his response was no let's keep it open so that russians can leave crimea and they can go back into russia so that's kind of an admission of why don't we just do the policy of let them exit remove the resources the people the economic capacity of the peninsula and let them go back into russia and then crimea will get strangled faster right that's kind of the idea so that's an admission by the ukrainian government that actually their preference would be keep the borders open more or less in that way Okay, interesting.
Mark McNameeHOST
My last question, I think you've already hit upon it.
Mark McNameeHOST
I just wanted to pin you down with a little bit of a prediction, if you don't mind making it, about where all this leads here.
Jimmy RushtonGUEST
Um, they're trying to, they're, they're trying to bring in these convoy, uh, systems where they have a bunch of guys on pickup trucks with heavy machine guns defending these, these fuel tankers and, and logistics vehicles as they, as they transit th- this route, but it doesn't seem to be working.
Jimmy RushtonGUEST
Um, you've also seen Ukrainian strikes on the ferries that, that bring, um, heavy goods across the Kerch Strait because the, the bridge that crosses the Kerch Strait, the Kerch Bridge, that's off limits to, uh, fuel and heavy military material because it was damaged by a Ukrainian truck bomb, um, a few years ago, and the Russians don't want to risk that again.
Jimmy RushtonGUEST
So yeah, it's, it's, it's been very effective.
Jimmy RushtonGUEST
Um, you're seeing a lot of problems in Crimea, and you're seeing...
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