“Between the flooded ferries, the Russians intend to establish a boom fence. In this way, the enemy seeks to protect the Kerch bridge from defeat,” the GUR said at the time.

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    Exactly. Like, maybe they barely floated, but this is Russia and standards for a commercially useful vessel would be incredibly low. They did this because they couldn’t arrange an alternative less-wasteful solution in a reasonable time frame; that’s the only logical explanation.