If the truck bomb driver was an unwitting victim then I don’t understand how the Ukrainians could have timed the explosion to coincide with the fuel train. They would have had no control over when the truck would be passing the bridge. (Possible answer: the train wasn’t in the plan, but just an opportunity they seized in the moment.)
On the other hand, the driver not being part of the plot would answer why he stayed on the outside lane of the bridge. Why he didn’t swerve left before detonating which would place the explosion closer to the railway bridge. (Would also explain why Kiev isn't claiming the attack.)
Guess it may have been too much to hope that this good-for-nothing war may have at least given us a cool Slavic suicide bombing. (Like maybe the guy had a terminal disease and was paid a lot of money.) That’s what you get for trying to think positively, looking for the good parts of a bad situation. Turns out (maybe) we can’t have any good things. Everything in this war has to be 100% depressing.
SBU coolness factor = 0%.
From gunning down their own protestors, to perhaps planting bombs in the trucks of middle-aged Azerbaijanis…
Fake and unearned?:
Perhaps this funny moment can take the load off a little:
What about this possibility? It was a remote controlled detonator on the truck. SBU operatives who managed this were following the truck in a car, when they felt it was best to detonate, they passed, accelerated, but kept a watch and detonated as the train was passing. Oh, and they didn't need to follow the truck the whole way to the bridge. They knew the drivers schedule so roughly when he would arrive and could have just waited there for him.
Question: Did the Russians have the smarts to close the bridge on the Crimean side straight after the explosion. If they did they might have caught the perpetrators.
So unless the train was a complete coincidence (which is hard to believe), wouldn’t the IED remote operators have needed a camera on the truck with a live feed to them? Although apparently mundane, getting such a camera mounted on the vehicle without the driver’s knowledge (or with his agreement using a phony innocent explanation) – and knowing in advance they could, as part of the plan – seems like a major hurdle in that scenario.