What's really amusing about this retort is that the Sich Battalion, named after the historical Cossacks, were set up by Svoboda in 2014, and genuinely are unrelated to the Sich societies which sprung up in numerous countries worldwide in the early Twentieth century and were connected to the Socialist Radical Party.
Honestly Operation Colossal Failure( колоссальный провал, if online translators are correct) should be the name of the entire Russian invasion thus far. Though it would be a bit on the nose.
Giving the Russians on the Peninsula an escape route would be the most compelling reason not to, though cutting off Crimean supplies before winter would be a good reason to blow up the big fucker. Apparently with the bridge gone there's a grand total of two highway that runs into Crimea, both of which will soon be within striking distance of HIMARS if they aren't already. That'll limit them to resupply by sea via Sevastopol but that requires Russia to risk their naval assets, which also soon be within range of Ukrainian artillery and Neptune missiles.
Well, the bridge isn't fully gone: it consists of two road crossings and one rail crossing. Several sections of a fuel train on the rail crossing ignited (which is quite clear from the videos), so we can assume the rail is out of operation, and that's likely to be the most important of the three from a resupply point of view.
Well, in that it'd be an important target, presumably it was intentional and presumably they'd get it right.
Russia is claiming it was a carbomb.
While rail lines are certainly hard to permanently destroy, bridges in general tend to be pretty fragile. While it's possible the damage there is superficial, they're definately going to want to give it a proper check before sending 10,000 ton freight trains over it.
...Not to mention a certain vatnik's birthday.
May Russia receive many such presents until they leave every last inch of Ukraine.
You know they're named after the neo-Nazi terrorist group S14, not the Sich riflemen of World War I (or the Cossack groups it consisted of), right? It's called S14 after the Fourteen Words; it got the nickname "Sich" because in Ukrainian it's spelled Січ. And by the way, they were started in 2010; they were reincorporated as a volunteer battalion in 2014. They were literally started by the same party (as you admit, Svoboda) and consist of the same people.
Ukraines intelligence agency apparently commented "Dawn, the bridge is burning beautifully,” from a famous Ukrainian poem.
Two different groups, my dude. 2010's S14, informally "Sich", dissolved and then reformed under a different name. The Sich Battalion self-describes itself as named after the Sich Riflemen.
Backronym... okay, I'm starting to think the point has flown over your head. The point being that a hundred years before either S14 or the Sich Battalion ever existed, there were Sich societies set up around the world, many of them by the Radical Socialist Party. And the neo-Nazi paramilitaries of today have pretty much fuck-all to do with them. So when you sarcastically said "Oh and I bet you believe the Sich Battalion and the Sich movement are unrelated too!", you were ironically using an example where... paramilitaries and a wider movement actually did both share a name despite being utterly unrelated.
What if whoever was responsible just calls it a "special military operation"?
Let's just not let that inconvenient fact they were both created by Svoboda and have the same leaders confuse us. "Foundation for the Future" is to what S14 "rebranded", as the youth "activist" wing of Svoboda. They can call themselves Mary, Queen of Scots, for all it matters, they're still fucking neo-Nazis.
No, you may rest entirely assured nothing has "flown over" my head. You're just openly caping for Nazis at this point because the BBC told you to, and don't want to admit it.
See earlier point about how Nazis would never, ever culturally appropriate to legitimize themselves, and weasel their way into popular support by performance and optics.
*Bridge explodes.*
"Unplanned Bridge Disassembly"
