The Ukrainians just blew up the Kerch bridge to Crimea in a terrorist attack.
The Russians are extremely pissed off, to the point where pressure is really growing on Putin to either set the Western Ukraine on fire, or let it freeze, or both, in whichever order. This is going to get very ugly, very quickly, and I better make some popcorn.
…and Russia is peppering Ukrainan targets at depth with cruise missiles; Lvov, Kiev, Dnepropetrovsk, Zhitomyr etc.
This looks like an attack on intelligence, command and control centres.
Also, there seems to be a connection between all those “rays of light towards the sky” reported from various places in Russia, and Starlink failure. If I had to guess, the Russians used some kind of a ionization weapon that thickened the ionosphere on the satellites’ path, damaging their electronics in ways similar to a strong solar event. The Ukrainians are being blinded, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the same is happening to the American satellites over Ukraine, and after that I would expect the real attack to take place.
Bi-directional automobile traffic over the bridge has resumed over one side. The train traffic has apparently also resumed because the railway was only slightly damaged. The damaged road on one side will supposedly be repaired in weeks.
This looked like a really bad blow but turned out to be a fart.
I think the plan is, if I remember correctly, to put Special Military Operation to stop and now launch Counter-terrorist Operation to cripple Ukraine beyond possibility of repair due to some legal reasons like if you proclaim war then UN immediately starts some mediation procedure and if that doesn’t work like it would not anyway then all UN members would be obliged to cut off diplomatic and economic ties with Russia, no questions asked.
Let’s just observe what happens, because I don’t think we’ll have to wait long.