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2022-10-12 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

NATO prepares for nuclear drills and doubles number of warships in the Baltic Sea to 30 in show of strength after 'horrific' Russian bombing raids in Ukraine

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-10-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top

#1 EXPOSED: April 2022 Presentation to UK Intel Officials Shows Details of Mi6 Plans to Blow up Kerch / Crimea Bridge

Here is the Mi6 presentation: AUDACIOUS: Proposal for Support for Ukrainian Maritime Raiding Operations

from The GrayZone:

EXPOSED: Before Ukraine blew up Kerch Bridge, British spies plotted it
KIT KLARENBERG
OCTOBER 10, 2022

The secret British intelligence plot to blow up Crimea’s Kerch Bridge is revealed in internal documents and correspondence obtained exclusively by The Grayzone.

The Grayzone has obtained an April 2022 presentation drawn up for senior British intelligence officers hashing out an elaborate scheme to blow up Crimea’s Kerch Bridge with the involvement of specially trained Ukrainian soldiers. Almost six months after the plan was circulated, Kerch Bridge was attacked in an October 8th suicide bombing apparently overseen by Ukraine’s SBU intelligence services.

Detailed proposals for providing “audacious” support to Kiev’s “maritime raiding operations” were drafted at the request of Chris Donnelly, a senior British Army intelligence operative and veteran high ranking NATO advisor. The wide-ranging plan’s core component was “destruction of the bridge over the Kerch Strait.”

Documents and correspondence plotting the operation were provided to The Grayzone by an anonymous source.

The truck bombing of the Kerch Bridge differed operationally from the plot sketched therein. Yet, Britain’s evident interest in planning such an attack underscores the deep involvement of NATO powers in the Ukraine proxy war. At almost precisely the time that London reportedly sabotaged peace talks between Kiev and Moscow in April this year, British military intelligence operatives were drawing up blueprints to destroy a major Russian bridge crossed by thousands of civilians per day.

The roadmap was produced by Hugh Ward, a British military veteran. A number of strategies for helping Ukraine “pose a threat to Russian naval forces” in the Black Sea are outlined. The overriding objectives are stated as aiming to “degrade” Russia’s ability to blockade Kiev, “erode” Moscow’s “warfighting capability”, and isolate Russian land and maritime forces in Crimea by “denying resupply by sea and overland via Kerch bridge.”

Posted by Chaim 2022-10-12 10:05|| 2022-10-12 10:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Busted

Nice work, Chaim

Posted by Palermo 2022-10-12 10:08|| 2022-10-12 10:08|| Front Page Top

#3 /\ Excellent work indeed.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-10-12 11:04|| 2022-10-12 11:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Remembering, of course, that armies have plans for all sorts of things. It’s been pointed out repeatedly here at Rantburg that the DoD has repeatedly war gamed the conquest of Canada, among many others, without ever intending to actually do it.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-10-12 11:41|| 2022-10-12 11:41|| Front Page Top

#5 It’s been pointed out repeatedly here at Rantburg that the DoD has repeatedly war gamed the conquest of Canada, among many others, without ever intending to actually do it.

Undoubtedly, tw. But I'm guessing Trudeau draws more comfort from it than Putin.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-10-12 12:07|| 2022-10-12 12:07|| Front Page Top

#6 For the lazy— jump to Slide #16 of the attached presentation to Mi6. It reads:

KERCH BRIDGE RAID CONOPS

• “The destruction of the bridge over the Kerch Strait would require a cruise missile battery to hit the two concrete pillars either side of the central steel arch, which will cause a complete structural failure. This will prevent any road re-supply from the Russian mainland to Crimea and temporally disrupt the shipping lane.”

Posted by Chaim 2022-10-12 13:13|| 2022-10-12 13:13|| Front Page Top

#7 So now they have resupply from Belarus.

Posted by Skidmark 2022-10-12 17:35|| 2022-10-12 17:35|| Front Page Top

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