Russia’s Bridges Keep Falling - And It’s Crippling Their War Effort

an improvised explosive device brought down a bridge? bridges are really sturdy things. how could someone "improvise" such a strong explosive

You need to check your Mic. Last two vides are way off in terms of audio. There's a noticeable reverb and muffling.

😢 I hope it was not potatoes trains..... russians have no more potatoes. This is "special military negociation"

Ukraine should go after the command posts instead.....it may take YEARS to repair a exploded command post.
If you ever worked in railway industry you know the weak thing are the command posts.

Prof: you're so close! This is FSB and/or maintenance. But Russia will use it for peace talks. You twist logic by believing questionable sources. And not believing valid sources. Stop already! The airfield attacks were also FSB. Is there any need for these aircraft? There's no real air war! Everyone knows this. They're sitting at airfields and being moved between bases and not being used in the war. They're too expensive to operate and maintain. Russian drones and missiles are almost all ground-based. They need fuel for the ground troops. Also, jet fuel to is more expensive than diesel. Maybe Ukraine takes responsibility for some of this because they'll get blamed anyway? Open your mind!!!

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Putin I want more land but I can't defend what I have.😢

Peace talks. Proposal # 1, Russians go home. End of proposals.

It seems to me , that Russia is faling apart .

Had there not been a war, Russia could just claim their bridges are defective....just like their SU bombers.

Thanks.

One more thing: how many injuries at the airfield "attacks"? No reports? Were there any? Ukraine would most likely try to include pilots and support personnel, right? FSB would be more likely to avoid personnel since they could conceivably be used elsewhere. They're grabbing people off the street. And deceiving Russians and Russian Federation citizens to fight in the war.

It has taken you 12 1/2 minutes to talk about three train derailment.

Thanks Prof.

Si les ponts sont cassés , les cons ne passeront plus !

Ukraine uses trains and roads equally, so they are able to fight off.
Now they would cut Russia railways network, and there is a limited number of targets and unlimited number of possibilities.
But there is the question why Bosnia isn't being forced to build transport network from Adriatic sea towards Croatia and Hungary?

Has Ukraine taken responsibility? Sounds like the work of Russian dissidents.

Interestingly both BBC and the Guardian make no mention of explosions.

Gone from 2nd best army in the world, to 2nd best army in Ukraine ,to 2nd best army in Russia..But everything is going to plan.

In Russia, 80% of civilian freight transport is handled by truck. Russia also doesn’t have many tanks left to transport. If necessary, the military can therefore procure enough civilian vehicles. But that weakens the economy even further.

Definitely serious wake-up call for Putin, but .. more than likely no one's telling him! Dictators delimea, punishing the messengers, till no more info.!

😮 yea well we ALL KNOW WHO the terrorist country is ☠️🇷🇺😈

Ukraine is just waiting for the official word from Germany to launch Taurus missiles.

I think this is a great sign that Ukraine has at least gotten a wink and nod that the decision will be positive and imminent.

Cripple major supply lines in one fell swoop.

Slava Ukraine. These folks never cease to amaze me with their resourcefulness and guts.

Everything is going to plan says Putin

Ukrainian tactics and drones are phenomenal ❤❤

Ukraine hasn’t been given or created the missile/drones to bring down railway bridges that are harder to destroy than road bridges. This may change as Germany supplies weapons to Ukraine.

US Railroad traffic is primarily bulk goods Grain, Coal and Oil plus a large number of Containers of consumer goods from both US sources and overseas ship deliveries. I have been a train watcher over the years, and I have seen many odd shipments of material going to scrapping facilities. The US has had serious bridge collapses both railroad and roadways over the years there are also many small railroad bridges some over a hundred years old that had to be rebuilt when they buckled.

Many of the attacks on railroads in Russia are by Russian anti Putin partisans who video the attacks and put the footage up on Twitter or other platforms.

This could be blamed on poor infrastructure, but happening twice in two days indicates they were attacks.

If you haven't lived in Russia, you haven't seen the absolute disaster that their infrastructure is. I'm not even talking roads here. They are living off of their Soviet legacy with just enough maintenance to extend its collapse for another decade or two. What I mean is the amount of maintenance they should have done in the last 30 years would have swamped bank accounts of the oligarchs. There is just enough maintenance done so that something that would have collapsed 4 years ago, is teetering right now. Then they added other Band-Aid. I disregard the nonsensical conspiracy claims of the FSB or against the FSB. I truly believe that as long as you do not see scorch marks from an explosion on some portion of the infrastructure, you should assume that it came down by lack of maintenance. I would like to point out that you can actually see what sabotage infrastructure looks like from this war itself, including rail and bridges in Siberia heading into places like Mongolia and China. If the damage does not look similar to those, then chances are it wasn't sabotage

"You don't have any cards! We have all the cards!"... "where the hell did they pull all those aces from???" Never pick a fight with a smarter opponent.

hi Professor

Professor Gerdes, you are a nervous wreck when speaking. Stop trying to meet a video length of time, and just talk to your friends.
Many race drivers have received the message to
slow down,
and when they did, their lap times improved.

Let's hope that Ukraine is able to create a 500 kilometer train -free zone at their border. Z can walk.

TACO 🌮 must be crying. He probably warned putin. But they passed him incomplete and/or wrong information.
Trumpy's half brain is no match for Budanov 😂😂👍🇺🇦

Now the poem will be," instead of London Bridge" it will now be ALL RUSSIAN BRIDGES are falling down.

A surprising train of events.

'Falling' lol

Russia is the aggressor and commits countless war crimes including child abduction. Ukraine is the victim defending itself and has the honor to not strike civilian targets. Every day Russia attacks civilians.

Почему я поддерживаю изгнание русских за Урал:

Большинство россиян поддерживает террористический режим в Москве, а значит — массовое похищение детей, удары дронов по гражданским городам, пытки детей, изнасилования девочек. Россия утратила свою принадлежность к человеческой цивилизации. Если Россия не будет строго наказана за свои преступления против цивилизации, она будет снова и снова развязывать войны.

Nothing corruption and vodka can't fix. Maintenance of bridges, trains and everything else in Russia is falling behind.

We have like 3 times as many rail lines as russia. USA is the king of rail, weird that no one understands this.

Total BS it took Russia 24 hours to repair it. And haven`t you heard of trucks as well.

Is there a possibility that some of this bridge damage is down to dissident groups within Russia?

Rail transport isn't outmoded. USA got captured by auto-maker political donations, so they favour roads and neglect railways.

Ukraine’s all-female resistance group Zla Mavka may have been responsible for some.

Ukraine: Go for every bridge in St Petersburg, Moscow, etc.; it will means inflation, extra time spent on the move, less oil to be exported, moral down, etc., etc.!

This time, Ukraine really impressed the world. Militarily, too. The spy network that must be infiltrating ruZZia right now is one that Ian Fleming wouldn't have come up with.