Russian troops have built a second pontoon crossing across the Seim River in the Kursk region east of the village of Zvannoye (51.376050, 34.612800) Satellite image by planet taken on August, 17th.

by Qubecoiseman

40 comments

  2. I’m not a military strategist, but this looks like a bad location for a crossing. Isn’t it a bad idea to build a bridge (which is itself a choke point) in another choke point?
    Looks like the perfect trap for vehicles trying to set over.

  6. Soon to be renamed “ponboom”. I cant imagine Ukraine would go to the trouble of blowing up the bridges, and allow makeshift crossings to remain.

  7. Looks like a really bad place to get stuck. To the point that a few fabs might actually create an island from that piece of land (I wish). 

  9. Not sure its a good idea to destroy them. Russia gathers tanks/apv around the pontoon, ukrainians spy/bomb them. Repeat

    Could go on for a few rounds before the orcs stop. Still, the losses would be bigger compared to destroying the pontoons

  11. Remember that river crossing disaster a few months in where Russia lost hundreds of meatsuits in one day?

  12. How cute. For bonus style points they should place a second ponton on the other side of the tiny peninsula.

  13. If you look it up on the map and zoom out then you see it’s an even bigger choke point then you taught

  18. Could this be a trap? Does not look like a save place for crossing. No room to maneuvering.

  19. this seems as the worst location ever! dont even blow it up just mass remote mine that area 😛

  20. “We build it every night. Charlie blows it right back up again. Just so the generals can say the road’s open.” – Chief, Apocalypse Now.

  22. That won’t last long. Might already be gone. No way it could have escaped unnoticed by UA.

  23. Probably to evacuate. It seems like at close range like this pontoon crossings or any river crossing would be hard to maintain. I imagine a couple of drones would be enough to compromise them structurally

  24. Look up the coordinates…it’s asking for trouble. Any column that drives in there has no place to go for quite a while

  26. Why build it there? This looks like the worst place to build it on that photo. Not only is the bridge a choke point, the land around it is as well.

  27. Second bridge? To go back to the original landmass? Why didn’t they just go around?

  31. I can just see the point where multiple burnt out tanks are going to form the perfect blockade to anything else trying to escape

  34. You see, we put it in the dumbest place possible so the Ukrainians will never believe that it’s real. *taps broken helmet*

  37. They just can’t catch a break.

    I hope the Ukrainians waited until there were loads of vehicles waiting to cross one at a time over the single lane potions.

  39. Every pontoon bridge built is extra effort for Russia AND the throughput is still going to be less than through a proper bridge. And by playing whackamole with the bridges, Ukraine is using less effort to mess up Russian logistics (even worse than they normally are) than Russia does to try to find new sites for a pontoon bridge and reshuffle everything to go through that one.

Leave a Reply