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Kiev executed two bombing attacks on the bridge in October 2022 and July 2023, using a truck and naval drones. Civilians were killed on both occasions. Ukrainian officials claim that destroying the bridge has a military purpose.See also: Macron stands by remarks on NATO troops in Ukraine
Some Western officials have made similar arguments, such as former US defense secretary and CIA director Roberts Gates in an interview with the Washington Post last week."If you want to give the Russians a pause, if you want to interrupt that sense of momentum that they have, why not be able to do things like drop the Kerch Strait Bridge?" he said.Gates urged Western donors to give Ukraine the capability to do that, saying a successful attack would hurt the Russians "psychologically as well as militarily."
Russian air defense forces repelled a combined attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the Crimean BridgeNothing got beyond the Russian air defense systems, though.
Shadow cruise missiles and American drones- ADM-160 MALD missile-type decoys equipped with electronic warfare systems. With the help of a decoy UAV, it was planned to identify air defense positions covering a strategic object, in order to then strike with Storm Shadow air-launched cruise missiles supplied to Kyiv by the UK.
A few hours before a series of attacks by militants of the Kyiv regime, an American RQ-4 Global Hawk reconnaissance drone and a Boeing P-8A Poseidon long-range radar reconnaissance aircraft were spotted in the skies over the Black Sea. This has long been a clear sign of further attacks by Ukrainian militants on Russian territory, primarily Crimea.
The officers went on to discuss how close the German military should be working on the proposed operation so as not to cross the 'red line' of being involved directly. Secretly training Ukrainians in the use of German weapons and helping them plan the operation were deemed acceptable.
But it seems they just discussed ( and leaked ) it. The envisaged perpetrators were others, who are obvious from the emphasis in my quotes.
Maybe Micron didn't just talk out of his *ss.