WH official: Why attack on Crimea bridge won’t impact Russia’s strategy

A Ukrainian security official has claimed Kyiv’s responsibility for an attack on the bridge linking the annexed Crimean peninsula to the Russian mainland – a vital supply line for Russia’s war effort in Ukraine and a personal project for President Vladimir Putin. CNN's Wolf Blitzer is joined by US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby to discuss. #CNN #News

[cordellmohawk]

Yup bridge just a distraction from Ukraine failed counteroffensive

[CaptRon]

Kirby is so awesome he should go to the frontlines of ukraine

[ernestoybarra]

I wouldn't trust Kirby for all the tea in China

[brandonware]

Then Ukraine should give up if they want peace

[isai]

90%of that grain is not going to those poor countries, is going to Europe

[kiandrah]

WAKE UP AMERICA, This is not a movie. Russia isn't going to sit there and wait for you to vote in a president they cant work with.

[thejoebidencirclejerk]

War is great! I'm so giddy!!
Zelensky

[ChrisMusumeci-fuig]

America must demand drug test for the staff and occupants of the white house. NOW!!

[gamelot]

The more important part of the bridge is the rail bridge, which wasnt hit. It was hit last year but repaired earlier in 2023.

[PerceivedREALITY]

Zelensky had the chance to prevent this conflict through diplomacy. But he lacked the courage and the conviction.

In 2014 there was a coup. Soon after, there was a massacre in Odessa (dozens of people were burned alive). Ethnic Russians living in Ukraine were treated as subhuman. Their language and culture was being oppressed. A civil war broke out due to the rise in ethnic tensions. For 8 years the Ukrainian military was indiscriminately shelling civilians living in Donbas.

If Zelensky honored the Minsk agreement and pledged neutrality, none of this would have happened. The 8 year civil war would have ended and Donbas would have remained part of Ukraine. War is the ultimate failure of diplomacy.

Zelensky, Poroshenko, Merkel and Hollande admitted that Ukraine had no intention to honor the Minsk agreements.

Who didn't want peace? Who advised against the 2022 peace talks in April? Hint: someone visited Zelensky in Kiev at that time.

Russia's national security was compromised once nato began to expand eastwards. Russia clearly stated that Ukraine joining nato was a red line (November 2021) and unfortunately this concern was never taken seriously. The Russians openly stated: if nothing changes, we will be forced to act in order to defend our national security. Enhancing the national security of one country at the expense of another is unacceptable. The Russians have legitimate security concerns.

20th September, 2021. Ukraine launched military drills with US and nato.

NATO is not a defensive alliance. Nato illegally bombed Yugoslavia (a direct violation of the U.N. Charter).
We should never forget what they did to Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq etc.

Who blew up the pipeline causing an environmental disaster?

Zelensky banned all opposition and recently arrested a leading priest.

Zelensky also tried to invoke article 5 under false pretenses. Remember the incident in Poland.

Ethnic Russians living in Ukraine were treated as subhuman. Their language and culture was being oppressed.
Poroshenko said, “Our children will go to schools and kindergartens—theirs will hide in the basements”.

Russians will never forget the 2014 Odessa massacre. The whole world needs to know about it.

Why was Denis Kireev eliminated? He was a member of Ukraine's negotiating team during the peace negotiations. He wanted to help his country.

Ukraine has a hit list. They target artists, journalists and ordinary citizens. Hundreds of children are on this list. (13 year old Faina Savenkova was placed on this list.)
Pink Floyd's Roger Waters is on this list. Jimmy Dore (American stand-up comedian, podcaster) and Aaron Maté (Canadian writer and journalist) are on this list.

There is evidence that Ukrainian troops have been indiscriminately shelling civilians in Donbas. (they used petal mines and targeted areas where there was no military presence).

The azov troops trapped in the azovstal steelworks in Mariupol used human shields. They refused to allow civilians to leave despite of humanitarian corridors being present. Russia held a proposed cease fire in order for the civilians to leave, but azov would not allow the civilians to leave.

Ukraine has committed many acts of terrorism (car bombs and other forms of assassination). Darya Dugina (journalist) RIP.

The terrorist attack on the Kerch bridge killed the truck driver and the individuals in the adjacent car (innocent civilian victims).

I have done a lot of research and it took me a long time to write this comment. I have stated a lot of facts and I have given my honest opinion.
I have provided a brief summary of events that took place. In order to explain this whole situation in great detail, a book would need to be written.
Hopefully someone will write an UNBIASED book, stating facts and allowing the readers to form their own judgments. Everything I said can be fact checked and verified.

[jennifer.keeling]

This Administration has to go. I'm an Independent who voted for Biden. But, this Administration's foreign policy will lead us into a global conflict, I fear.

[CaptRon]

In other words, it was just terror against citizens

[kingstop]

CNN " We Deliver The Stupid " 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[meejinhuang]

What is he talking about. That bridge is a vital lifeline to the russians in Crimea.

[icausedbidenflation]

Congratulations president Trump on your reelection, thank Joe Manchin for splitting dem votes with Joetato

[jhill]

Thi 7-17-23 Kurch bridge hit was an easily understood attention getter. The message is extremely clear.

[emiliachidester]

IS ONLY ONE WAY OUT, GET RID OF PUTIN FOR GOOD.

[whatda]

Russia cannot be defeated. They're too big and too determined.

[PerceivedREALITY]

Some people are celebrating the Kerch bridge terrorist attack that killed two parents and severely injured their young daughter. Makes me sick.

[jimdoe]

Ask our official how the most secure building in the world can have cocaine in it and nobody knows anything lol