Crimean Bridge

A truck loaded with explosives hit the only bridge connecting the Crimean Peninsula with mainland Russia on Saturday. Russian national anti-terrorist ...

Crimea Bridge is one of Moscow’s most fundamental infrastructure investments in the occupied peninsula. Russian national anti-terrorist committee confirmed that the incident damaged a big part of the bridge. It also set fire to seven fuel tanks on a runaway train on the concurrent rail segment, as per early reports.

The apparent attack sent two of the Kerch Bridge's road spans crashing into the sea and set a nearby railway shipment of fuel tanks ablaze, halting all traffic ...

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The road-and-rail bridge links Crimea to Russia, who annexed the territory in 2014.

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The damage to the Crimean Bridge caused by a truck explosion on Saturday serves as a “symbolic incident” of the months-long Russia-Ukraine conflict, ...

Moreover, the long-announced terrorist attack on the Crimean Bridge is no longer just a challenge, it is a declaration of war without rules," Oleg Morozov, a member of the Russian parliament, told the RIA news agency. Observers see the damage of the 19-kilometer bridge across the Kerch Strait, opened by President Vladimir Putin in 2018, as a deliberate attack on Russian's morale. If the blast is confirmed as a deliberate attack, it will be a test for Russia whether it can safeguard its 'red line.' For some people, Russia has no choice but to exert strong countermeasures to show the outside world that it has the determination to draw and protect its 'red line,'" Cui Heng from the Center for Russian Studies of East China Normal University, told the Global Times on Saturday. "The bridge is important enough for Moscow as it repeatedly issued warnings against attacking the bridge and drew a 'red line' on it. Soon after the incident, Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukraine's president, wrote in a Twitter post on Saturday that "Crimea, the bridge, the beginning … Russian officials said that the blast, which occurred shortly after 6 am local time, caused a partial collapse of the road on the vehicle section.

"The guided missile cruiser Moskva and the Kerch bridge - two notorious symbols of Russian power in Ukrainian Crimea - have gone down," tweeted Ukraine's ...

The road and railway bridges are vital links in Russia's supply chain. But the attacks on the Saky base and the bridge are all part of the same wider effort: to undermine Russia's ability to use Crimea as a launch pad for its war in southern Ukraine. Ukrainian officials are giving little away, happy to apply the same level of ambiguity that followed a mysterious attack on the Russian airbase in Crimea in August. Any number of theories are doing the rounds - from a Ukrainian special forces operation to the work of partisans in Crimea, a missile strike, or even a suicide bomb. Coming on the back of weeks of mostly good news from the battlefront, where Ukrainian forces continue to take back territory seized by Russia back in February and March, the sight of the crippled, burning bridge is a massive additional boost to morale. "The guided missile cruiser Moskva and the Kerch bridge - two notorious symbols of Russian power in Ukrainian Crimea - have gone down,"

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) -- An explosion Saturday caused the partial collapse of a bridge linking the Crimean Peninsula with Russia, damaging an important s.

The peninsula is a popular destination for Russian tourists and home to a Russian naval base. The secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council, Oleksiy Danilov, tweeted a video with the Kerch Bridge on fire and Marilyn Monroe singing her “Happy Birthday Mr. Leonid Slutsky, head of the foreign affairs committee in the Russian parliament’s lower house, said “consequences will be imminent” if Ukraine was responsible. A Russian tourist association estimated that 50,000 tourists were in Crimea on vacation on Saturday. The 19-kilometer (12-mile) Kerch Bridge, on a strait between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, is a symbol of Moscow’s claims on Crimea and an essential link to the peninsula, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014. “Today was a good and mostly sunny day on the territory of our state,” he said. Two passenger trains left the Crimean cities of Sevastopol and Simferopol and headed toward the bridge Saturday evening. Russian war bloggers responded to the bridge attack with fury, urging Moscow to retaliate by striking Ukrainian civilian infrastructure. “The special operation must be turned into a counterterrorist operation,” he declared. Train and automobile traffic over the bridge was temporarily suspended. Kirill Stremousov told Russia’s state-run RIA Novosti agency that young children, their parents and the elderly could be relocated to two southern Russian regions because Kherson was getting “ready for a difficult period.” Ukrainian officials have repeatedly threatened to strike the bridge and some lauded the destruction on Saturday, but Kyiv stopped short of claiming responsibility.

Moscow moves to secure the key connector and repair it as soon as possible after the explosion.

Hours after the bridge explosion, Russia appointed a new commander to lead its troops in Ukraine. It is hard to overstate the political, symbolic and strategic significance of the Crimean bridge. Unverified posts on social media also appeared to show apartment blocks in flames. A Russian national anti-terrorism committee said the damage was caused by a truck bomb blowing up, which caused seven railway carriages to catch fire. Last month, Ukraine claimed responsibility for a series of air strikes on Crimea - including an attack on Russia's Saky military base. The blast killed three people, Russian investigators said.

On October 8, a fire broke out on the Kerch Strait Bridge connecting Russia and the temporarily occupied Ukrainian Crimea. A video posted on social media showed ...

On October 8, a fire broke out on the Kerch Strait Bridge connecting Russia and the temporarily occupied Ukrainian Crimea. It is almost certain that some vehicle transits via the other two carriageways have resumed, but capacity will be seriously degraded, the ministry said. "The extent of damage to the rail crossing is uncertain, but any serious disruption to its capacity will highly likely have a significant impact on Russia’s already strained ability to sustain its forces in southern Ukraine," the report said.

The Kerch bridge is a key supply route to Moscow's forces battling in southern Ukraine.

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Transport capacity on the Kerch Bridge “will be seriously degraded,” UK Defense Ministry says.

Kyiv is now [asking](https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/05/ukraine-advances-air-defenses-putin-00060580) for more Western weapons, including air defense systems. [leading](https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/05/ukraine-advances-air-defenses-putin-00060580) a counteroffensive against Russia and regaining territory and towns held by Moscow. Despite Moscow’s message of business as usual, the U.K.’s Defense Ministry said that transport “capacity will be seriously degraded” on the bridge. “We urgently need more modern air and missile defense systems to save innocent lives. The initial report from Moscow’s inspection of the bridge is due later Sunday. Putin tightened security for the bridge and for energy infrastructure between Russia and Crimea.

An explosion on a 19-km long bridge linking Russia with Crimea on Saturday led to its partial collapse and its engulfment in a fireball.

North is towards the right. An explosion on a 19-km long bridge linking Russia with Crimea on Saturday led to its partial collapse and its engulfment in a fireball. A view of the damaged part of Crimean Bridge connecting Russian mainland and Crimean peninsula over the Kerch Strait, in Kerch, Crimea.

Russia has blamed a truck bomb - but examination of the footage seems to contradict that.

"Bridges are generally designed to resist downwards loads on the deck and a certain amount of side loading from the wind," he said. The speed with which the truck bomb theory started to spread in Russian circles was suspicious. No-one was hurt." "They are not generally engineered to resist upward loads. "I've seen plenty of large vehicle-borne IEDs [improvised explosive devices] in my time," a former British army explosives expert told me. The footage shows a huge fireball erupting just behind - and to one side - of the truck as it begins to climb an elevated section of the bridge.

Russia has blamed a truck bomb - but examination of the footage seems to contradict that.

"Bridges are generally designed to resist downwards loads on the deck and a certain amount of side loading from the wind," he said. The speed with which the truck bomb theory started to spread in Russian circles was suspicious. No-one was hurt." "They are not generally engineered to resist upward loads. "I've seen plenty of large vehicle-borne IEDs [improvised explosive devices] in my time," a former British army explosives expert told me. The footage shows a huge fireball erupting just behind - and to one side - of the truck as it begins to climb an elevated section of the bridge.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a meeting of his national security council on Monday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told Russian state-owned ...

Russia opened an investigation into the explosion, and Russia’s Foreign Ministry is pointing the finger at Ukraine. [said](https://twitter.com/MFA_Ukraine/status/1579094428912095233). The country’s security service He does what is not expected of him,” Kartapolov said. Our President and Supreme Commander-in-Chief never does what ‘partners’ expect from him. “What the answer will be, we will find out.

A blast on the strategic road-and-rail bridge linking Russia and the Crimea peninsula brought down sections of road taking traffic in one direction, ...

In a video message Aksyonov, the Crimea governor, said he wanted to "assure Crimeans that the Republic of Crimea is fully provided with fuel and food. The Russian National Anti-Terrorism Committee said a freight truck had blown up on the bridge's roadway at 6:07 a.m. "We are not cut off from the mainland!" Since the start of the invasion on Feb. The images could not immediately be verified. Don't panic."

The Russian president accused Ukrainian special services of carrying out an attack on the Kerch Bridge, a key supply line for Russian forces.

— The Ukrainian military said Sunday that fierce clashes were taking place around the cities of Bakhmut and Avdiivka in the eastern Donetsk region, where Russian forces have claimed some recent territorial gains. — In the devastated Ukrainian city of Lyman, which was recently recaptured after a months-long Russian occupation, Ukrainian national police said authorities have exhumed the first 20 bodies from a mass burial site. Putin personally opened the Kerch Bridge in May 2018 by driving a truck across it as a symbol of Moscow's claims on Crimea. "That's why the mood is a bit gloomy." Abbas Gallyamov, an independent Russian political analyst and a former speechwriter for Putin, said the Russian president, who formed a committee Saturday to investigate the bridge explosion, had not responded forcefully enough to satisfy angry war hawks. "I am left without an apartment at the end of my life." "And the authors, perpetrators, and those who ordered it are the special services of Ukraine." In a flash, the fourth-floor apartment he shared with his wife was gone. At least 19 people died in Russian missile strikes on apartment buildings in the city on Thursday. Tetyana Lazunko, 73, and her husband, Oleksii, took shelter in the hallway of their top-floor apartment after hearing air raid sirens. The six missiles used in Sunday's overnight attack were launched from Russian-occupied areas of the Zaporizhzhia region, the Ukrainian air force said. In an adjacent apartment building, the missile barrage blew windows and doors out of their frames in a radius of hundreds of feet.

More than a day into an explosion that severely damaged a strategic bridge connecting mainland Russia and temporarily occupied Crimea, Russian President ...

The investigative committee is probing the explosion as a terrorist attack. "There is no doubt that this is a terrorist attack aimed at destroying Russia’s critically important civilian infrastructure. "No.

Russian President Vladimir Putin accusing Ukraine of being involved in damaging the Crimean Bridge, as well as calling the incident a terror attack, ...

On October 9, there were reports of several kilometers-long traffic jams near the Crimean Bridge. As reported, on the morning of October 8, an explosion and a massive fire were recorded on the Kerch Strait Bridge connecting mainland Russia and the temporarily occupied Crimea. Less than 24 hours ago ru-planes hit residential area of Zaporizhzhia with 12 missiles, killing 13 people and injuring more than 50.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky meanwhile denounced a Russian missile strike that killed at least 13 people.

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Russian investigators claimed to have swiftly identified suspects in the predawn fireball that sent concrete spans of the Crimea Bridge, ...