Christina lamb breast ignore garrets permanent german command center. In lithuania and thailand is holding funerals for the children killed in a nursery massacre. Mourners gather in buddhist temples to bid farewell to their loved ones who died in thailands deadliest mass, killing. Ah, i am told me all lady boy, its good to have you with us. Russias transport Ministry Says traffic is slowly resuming on the bridge, connecting crimea to russia, which suffered major damage and then explosion this morning. The bridge is a key role and road and rail link from the russian mainland to the annex Crimean Peninsula of the authorities in moscow are blaming the blast on a truck bombing. And say, 3 people were killed. A massive explosion lights up the pre dawn sky. Over the street between russia and crimea, social media footage appears to show the moment of detonation, which Russian Authority say was caused by a truck bomb. Footed bloody to lean according to preliminary information this morning, a truck was blown up on the motorway section of the crimean bridge from the side of the time on peninsula causing 7 fuel tanks of the train, heading towards the Crimean Peninsula to catch fire. As a result to spans of the road bridge partially collapsed the my bill. Bradley with officials closed the road bridge and railway to traffic while they assess the damage. While ukraine has not claimed responsibility, many military analysts are already assuming their behind the attack. Keith has repeatedly threatened to strike the crimean bridge, which is the only direct road and rail link between russia and crimea, the territory it illegally annexed in 2014. Its railway is a key route for troops and material to the front lines of russias war and ukraine. But it also carries symbolic value. Vladimir putin ordered its construction after season crimea, and inaugurated its opening behind the wheel of a truck. One analyst says the attack, which came a day after putin 70th birthday, is likely to turn up the heat on the russian president back home. This bridge has petersons name oliver. Its, its the symbolism of his projects. And this comes at a time where theres already been lots of factions, maneuvering in moscow, blaming the military, blaming the vall degree blaming putin. The blame game started and the such a symbolic attack by the ukrainians is en, again to accelerate that. Ukrainian officials celebrated the attack online and adviser to the ukranian president wrote crimea the bridge, the beginning. Everything illegal must be destroyed. Everything stolen must be returned to ukraine. Everything occupied by russia must be expelled with an image of the collapse bridge. While the official twitter account of the ukrainian government, simply commented sick, bern, rushes Foreign Ministry said the social media posts revealed ukraines quote, terrorist nature russian installed officials and crimea have said the damage would be quickly repaired during now by doctor donna tila, sacramento from Kings College london and she focuses on Russian Foreign and security policy. Welcome to the program. Now russia says this is a ukrainian act of tara, weve seen the ukrainians celebrating this blast without quite claiming to that have been behind it. Who do you think is to blame . Well i, i think its, its quite likely that ukraine young sort of special operatives, you know, what behind this i talk, i think they were at some point also meeting to a to, you know, publicly there were reports of that in some of a ukrainian newspapers. So i think it is a days from the information we have so far its, its likely that the ukrainians are behind it. It makes sense also operationally, because it really limits that sort of the ability of russia to supply, you know, its, its forces not only in the area of credit song, but also around maybe a around the area that controls in jeopardy asia. So it is a serious blow to russia, sort of sort of supply system on ability to, to continue with a fight effectively in areas where it is sort of under challenge from ukrainian on forces. With that significance in mind, what kind of action do you expect from russia following the blast . What i mean, weve seen russia already sort of changing all put to placing a, you know, generally say get survey sort of week in charge of the entire sort of military campaign. So shes someone who has been responsible for operations in syria. So in an attempt to sort of, to carry out more effective military operations. But you know, this might not really change much on the ground. I think russia would escalate and buy, for example, a bargain indiscriminately cities in ukraine by deciding to sort of i try to give more more, more actively and more effectively. So i think that we can expect to sort of indiscriminate in discriminatory bombing taking place in the next few days because thats been sort of the usual reaction of protein, you know, to sort of lea shout and mass and discriminatory until a lot of civilians. As of an emotional reaction, which doesnt really have a military impact, but i think theres going to be an increased effort to make the whole mechanism of providing supplies on creating a more effective on forces, you know, more, more intense. But im not sure that theyre going to succeed. You mentioned problem. Yeah, you mentioned that the appointment of general whos going to need ukraines the offensive in ukraine. This is us, this appointment reflect an overall growing concern in russia about the recent setbacks like this. This last yes, i think as your previous guest was pointing out, i mean theres a lot of serious blame game game going on. And you know, theres a sort of pressure to sort of, you know, wait what they perceive is cleaning the military because there is so much corruption around it. So trying to find a mechanism whereby the military becomes much more effective and i think this is the attempt constantly to sort of this me certain military leaders or figures in the military structure and replace them with all those heats on finite time to see whether that can change their reality, reality is on the ground because the whole structure is very corrupt and its also very much run off from top down way. And that as a result of that there, you know, the operation on the ground sometimes can become much more difficult because there is very limited sort of initiative of non commissioned off. He says on the ground, which is something that occurs in sort of nato nato military on forces. And also you bring it on, you know, was english and has been really good at, you not creating a mechanism of, you know, so most of the centralized Decision Making which allows you know, the forces to operate and accommodate. We do not have that in russia, and i dont really see that happening. So that also is a problem, you know, which re, fx ration of the on forces. Of course, expert dr. Dont tell us i can most. So thank you for speaking to us. And germanys defense minister christina lambaste says nato must do more to protect itself against russia and Vladimir Putin as made the comments during a visit to lithuania, to inaugurate and Natal Command center, and to observe training exercises led by german troops. Now, lambert said therell be more forces deployed to the baltic nation to bolster its eastern flank, amid regional tensions with russia over the war and ukraine. Germany has been leading the nato operation in lithuania for the past 5 years. Now joined by d. W correspondent killian buyer, who joins a cert from lithuania. Whats the significance of the inauguration of this german nato brigade . Well, lumbering at the press conference where i was earlier on said something significant. She said, lithuania, security is germany. Security. This is, of course, a highly symbolic move. The Baltic States had been calling for more true presence in along the eastern flank since the war ukraine started actually even beforehand, already before when the build up began. And germany are like you said earlier on, is leading a Nato Battle Group and lithuania. Thats about a 1200. 00 soldiers. Now the German Government is allocating another 2500. 00 soldiers here. And it really means that, you know, germany is standing by lithuania side by the Baltic States. And germany is a reliable nato partner. Right . But germany has, you know, with mentioned this 2500. 00 additional troops to lithuania, but only around 50 will be stationed where you are right now and, and stand the majority of them will remain in germany. How does this actually work . Yeah, its actually a very interesting point because the lithuanians, as far as we know, were not too happy about this. And they would have, of course, preferred the 2500. 00 soldiers to be stationed here permanently. Now the Lithuanian Air defense minister, they said theyre building the infrastructure for this. M y is germany, not stationing all these troops here. Well, you know, its probably because the german army does not have enough material, not enough tanks really. And you know, these units are very well equipped, but if they were stationed here permanently, the German Military wouldnt have these tanks. And here of the equipment here and the equipment would be here, i mean in lithuania and would not be in germany for training. So this is kind of a compromise. I asked the German Defense minister for the reasons she didnt really, as specifically want to answer. What she did say though, is that these troops would be on High Readiness and would be able to deploy to lithuania in 10 days. So enough time to react to a russian build up very quickly. And can you remind us why this region is considered so vulnerable . Well, you dont live yet lithuania has to borders with russia. Colleen, and grad on one side, and rush on the other side. And another border with bella, ruth, from which russia staged its invasion to ukraine. At the beginning of the year, m. Lithuania is really the connection between the Baltic States and the rest of western europe. And its the connection to poland is a tiny gap, only 50 kilometers wide, which could be cut by a russian evasion invasion theoretically. So this is why people consider it one of the most vulnerable regents for nato. Right. Killian bi, reporting from brooklyn. Thank you. Lets get you up to speed with some other stories making news around the world. In iran, protesters clashed and Security Forces in fresh anti regime demonstrations. A man was allegedly shot dead in his car, in sullen dodge capital of kurdistan. Province protest ruptured last month over the death of a woman in police custody. Iran denies. She was killed by blows wild in detention, a wild file and chillies, easter island, as cause irreparable damage to the ancient moy statues. Official save the stones, cracked and charred from the fire, which broke out on monday. The sacred statues were carved centuries ago by indigenous polynesians and r a unesco World Heritage site in thailand, funerals and press over says or have begun for victims of one of the countries. Worst mass killings of former Police Officers stabbed and shot 36 people on thursday, including many children at a Childcare Center in north east and thailand. To wave games and flower debts. How do yet . Oh, but out of at if been remembered. He is one of the 24 children who died during a my da da swam beach at at daycare center. None minute on the day, the incident i didnt give him a call. I normally do that every morning. It was raining that day and i was in a hurry to go to work, so i didnt call him. I didnt get to say a word to him. I at this child care center, a former Police Officer shot and stopped children and details later the man flaked and killed his family and himself. Now gifts and flowers, for the little ones, bought into the finter. Debit madame highlands, king maha cheat are long gone. He sees, he shares the familys grief spot, but as at hancock, while ive been, i want to give you all moral support to be strong so that the souls of those children can have a sense of relief in dang that their families will remain strong and be able to move forward with cargo and come up with a bite, with funeral rights and bears a 3 day morning beat. It has begun. 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