I am not sure. What you see moving under the bridge is a small wave in streaming water. The broken parts of the bridge should, to me at least, have flewn in the air if the detonation would come from under the bridge. But the parts just fell down. In the explosion you see more fire, and more smoke above the bridge. Should that not have been under the bridge if the explosives would have been placed under it? You also see clearly that the truck was exactly at the place of the explosion. The train caught fire from the explosion, which is more difficult if the explosion happened under the bridge as parts of the explosion would never get there from under the bridge. The bridge would be between the explosives and the train (which is meters higher than the road) blocking the explosion an protecting the railway. Till now I found no info at all that would confirm explosives under the bridge.
Prigozhin’s telega Request from LIVE24 news agency and response: REQUEST: Good afternoon, Evgeny Viktorovich! The editors of LIVE24 would like to ask you a few questions. Army General Sergei Surovikin was appointed the new commander of the NMD. Tell me, do you know him? Can you comment on its purpose? ANSWER: We are publishing a comment by Evgeny Viktorovich: “Of course, I am familiar with him. Surovikin is the most competent commander in the Russian army. But he can act in the current situation on the basis of the opportunities that he has and relying on the situation that was handed to him by his predecessors, and it was handed over, to put it mildly, not in the best possible way. As for his personal qualities, I can say one thing that Surovikin is a legendary person, he was born to faithfully serve the Motherland. Faithfully serving the Motherland is not beautiful uniforms and tsatski to fasten. We all remember the events at the White House in August 1991, and so Surovikin is the officer who, without hesitation, having received an order, got into a tank and rushed to save his country. By the way, in August 1991, I also participated in those events, however, then I was on the side of the protesters - the liberal forces. We were then in the deepest delusion, and instead of directing the fundamental assembled country, called the USSR, into a new direction, giving the idea of private property, a new vector of economic development and working on mistakes, we all together destroyed it to the ground. We carried out a command from the United States and destroyed the greatest empire of our time for the sake of a bunch of greedy, treacherous creatures who, on the sly, plundered factories, factories, steamships. By the way, most of them are still sitting on the money stolen from the people and rubbing their hands. Historically, this is a global unique error. China followed a similar path, with one difference - they did not plunder anything, and now has an outstanding economy. The first in the world, if you put aside the murky criminal schemes of the United States. And we are still paying for this mistake. Surovikin in August 1991 did not have time to load full ammunition into his tank. And if we had time, then we would live in a completely different country, dozens of times more powerful. What we got as a result: Khodorkovsky, Berezovsky and others - a pack of dogs attacked the property of the Soviet Union and pulled it in different directions. I, along with the protesters that day, went to the square and overturned trolleybuses so as not to return the USSR. For what? For the sake of an extra piece of sausage or boiled jeans. The results of today's problems were laid down in that distant 1991. By the way, those who destroyed the USSR are still alive and well, they manage factories and plants, and steamboats, they are called by one name - Russian oligarchs. And fuck they saw the entire military industry and the struggle for the interests of Russia. So Surovikin is the best, and tried to save his homeland, but his success depends, among other things, on his shells in the tank.
All this is a side show. Russia is getting exactly what it wants from this war. Ukraine is being obliterated and oil and gas is being kept high. They aren't going to use nuclear weapons when they are barely even using their air force. It seems super obvious that Russia wants us to believe Ukraine has a chance of "winning" so we keep supporting blowing the country to shit. There is just no way that Russian intelligence hadn't infiltrated the Ukrainian government at every level before the war. I just can't believe people can be so dumb to not realize that Russia knows the next chess move Ukraine makes before they make it. I know almost nothing of military strategy but having moles in place at every level of government in Ukraine is the obvious move before invading because it would be utterly trivial to accomplish. The flag waiving Ukraine dopes don't even stop to consider that Zelensky is alive because Russia doesn't want him dead. All you have to think about is why that would be to see how the standard narrative has nothing to do with reality. None of this is shocking though as people in general are absolutely terrible at updating their priors given new observations. Most people will think whatever they are told to think and will just cherry pick evidence to reinforce what they already believe to be true. Totally standard stuff.
Actually it is China that is getting exactly what it wants. It has successfully maneuvered Russia into the position of a vassal state of China. China has now formed alliances with all the central Asian states that Putin was well on his way to cobbling together back into some kind of mini-Soviet Union. And in regard to the oil and gas, China has successfully stood back and watched Putin shoot himself in the foot where he has no choice now but to sell to China and India- of which both have successfully maneuvered Russia into contractually longer and longer deep, deep discounts. The rest of his economy is in the shiiter too, and anyone with any talent has either left or planning to. Other than that, Putin is a genius as always.
Just one example: Shakalin 1 had a production of 220,000 barrels a day. Today the production is 10,000 barrels a day. That's a drop of 78%. That will never be compensated by a higher price. And that is surely not what Russia wanted. Gas prices are going down while Europe buys no gas in Russia anymore. Also something Russia never wanted. This war is full of unwanted effects for Putin. And if he could redo everything he surely would not do what he did. Russia lost a fortune in military material, which will cost them 25 years to recover from. And this war cost them 1 billion each day. Andthey still have not taken Ukraine (which should have happen in just a few days).