Ukraine Used Water Based Drones to Damage the Kerch Bridge to Crimea

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Russian authorities have accused Ukraine of attacking the Kerch bridge with two “unmanned surface vessels” (USVs) – drones that travel over water.

The Kerch bridge was opened in 2018 and enables road and rail travel between Russia and Crimea – Ukrainian territory occupied by Moscow’s forces since 2014.

There is a rail bridge beside a road bridge.

Russia’s transport ministry said the bridge’s supports were not damaged.

The ministry said investigations were continuing, but unconfirmed reports said explosions were heard early on Monday.

It is the second major incident on the Kerch bridge in the past year. In October 2022, the bridge – which is an important supply route – was partially closed following a major explosion. It was fully reopened in February.

17 thoughts on “Ukraine Used Water Based Drones to Damage the Kerch Bridge to Crimea”

  1. Russian army is not so good as they projected on the outside. They are not totally incompetent though. They fight and have means to do so. Ukrainian new brigades were trained on fast, mobile warfare. That is hard to pull off because Russians mined everything. There are miles of minefields and artillery kill zones coupled with aviation superiority. That is hard to puncture and make fast blitz envelopes. I think F16 with modern missiles are better than most Russian Migs and Su. Ukrainians with F 16 will cut down Russian attack helicopters and aircraft. They will help, but how much can they be used because of Russian anti air remains a question.

    Russian plan was to win Ukraine in a few days. If west would not support Ukraine, then Russia would install puppet government and Ukrainians would be forced to fight for Russians. Then they would attack other countries. Russia gave ultimatum for Nato to pull back from a lot of countries at first. You have to stand up to regimes like Russia.

    Ruble is falling, finally the war is taking its toll. Ukraine will win if west will continue its support. Nato industry base is way better than Russian and mil tech level is higher. Logistic wins wars. Things may complicate if China starts to help Russia. That is undecided, you never know. I guess it is in China’s interest, that Russia is not too powerful and they can exploit it for cheap oil, gas. Use it as a colony for cheap resources.

  2. “Accused” seems strange terminology to use during a war. Like Russia thinks Ukraine isn’t supposed to be fighting back, and purports to be outraged?

  3. These bridges are harder to destroy that one would think. Ukrainians used HIMARS barrages again and again to damage vital bridges in Kherson region. Those barages did make holes in concrete but the bridges were still functional to some extent. Now I cant say is storm shadow less effective as planned, Russians have lots of anti air near bridge.

  4. Elon loves Russia and Putin so much , he has prohibited the use of Starlink on Ukrainian drones,sickening.

  5. Please get this Human Garbage off this site.
    How anyone would side with/ support that backward, medieval empire, with its army of hateful savages –surviving or not– is beyond me. What possible redeeming values does a ‘Putin world’ have? Oligarchs and corruption and backward peasants polluting eastern Europe/ Asia.
    Does anyone want Russian/ Putin values to prosper and spread? Is that a better world?
    Do we want to return to a Warsaw Pact existence? Does a third axis out of Moscow fill one with excitement for a technologically advanced, economically-accelerating, world-collaborating existence? They are a parasite and virus and should be contained as such, to 2010 International borders.

    • Well said Jet. The counter-offensive (Against the supposed second greatest military on earth) has still taken more land in two months then the Russians managed in all the long winter offensive.

      • So the column out of Belarus that made it to the outskirts of Kyiv before being forced back. Were they on a sight seeing trip?

      • Ukraine was not dropping bombers or shooting on it’s own civilians. That was a made up excusss Russia used to justify the ware. There was no evidence of it before russia invaded Ukraine

  6. The engineering challenge is to drop an arch over the only ship passage between the Azov Sea and the Black Sea. The detour is via Vladivostok.

  7. I presume the Ukrainians will drop a span of both the rail bridge and auto/truck side into the drink when they are done distracting the Russians and have everything ready to go for Crimea.

      • What kind of idiot relies on the invader to feed its own people, anyway? Was England relying on the Axis for food during WWII?

      • Putin cutting off grain sales, as described by a witness to the act:

        “It was the weirdest damn thing. I saw this Putin guy stand up, unzip, pull it out, throw it on the ground, and then stomp on it as hard as he could–and right in front of the whole world.”

        If lots of folks abroad aren’t getting any food, those that have to buy it from abroad are going to be paying a lot more for it. That would probably include China, which is a long ways from food self-sufficiency and the world’s largest importer of food (currently at the beginning, or the end of the beginning, of a terrible economic crisis that may persist for the rest of the century). Aren’t Putin and Xi supposed to be buddy-buddy or something?

        Also, Turkey plans to ignore Russia’s declaration and continue to escort grain shipments. They also pointed out that Article 5 provides that if a NATO Ally is the victim of an armed attack, each and every other member of the Alliance will consider this act of violence as an armed attack against all members and will take the actions it deems necessary to assist the Ally attacked.

        In that event, Russia would no longer need any ports on the Black Sea, other than somewhere to launch glass bottom boats so they could go inspect their fleet once in a while.

  9. Ukraine should do what Russia does and celebrate the attack for a day or so then tell Russians that they did it to themselves as a false flag attack.

    But seriously, well done Ukraine.

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