Sure. But you have to know a little bit about explosives to rig this. Not a ton, but at least a bit. You also have to have the right stuff to do it. If you didn’t have any explosives experience, would you be fiddling with setting a timer on C4 in a room full of explosives?
Yeah… very crazy times.
Every army has combat engineers, including the Russian army. This would be a fairly easy task for a combat engineer team.
Combat engineers were in Kherson, they built the pontoon bridge.
Ukrainians are in for a hell of a winter if their electrical transmission and distribution infrastructure continues to get taken out at their current clip. Just a senseless humanitarian crisis. Hopefully a lasting peace can be achieved soon.
The Russians have been launching very few missiles at infrastructure the last 10 days or so, though they did launch a bunch of drones yesterday. Nobody knows how many precision rockets Russia started the war with, but it's pretty obvious their stock is low. They started using anti-shipping missiles a few months back and have been using anti-aircraft missiles in the attacks on the electrical grid.
It's going to be a rough winter in all of Europe between energy shortages west of Ukraine and the damage to the infrastructure in Ukraine.
Snyder's video classes are very good for the basics, albeit quite long. If you're old-fashioned enough to read books, this one offers superb historical context and helps explain many other Eastern European issues. There are several other Snyder books that explain much of the context for modern nation-states.
Much of my free reading time is taken up reading about the war right now, but eastern European history is an area I've been meaning to study more for some time. The changes to borders in eastern Europe are mind numbing compared to western Europe.