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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An explosion ripped across the Crimean Bridge, a strategic link between mainland Russia and Crimea.

A fire sparked by a car bomb has broken out on a key road and rail bridge linking Crimea to Russia, which annexed the territory from Ukraine.

a car bomb exploded, setting fire to seven oil tankers being carried by rail to Crimea,” Russian news agencies cited the national anti-terrorism committee as saying. The bridge, which was built on the orders of Russian President Vladimir Putin and inaugurated in 2018, was a key transport link for carrying military equipment to Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine, especially in the south, as well as ferrying troops there. MOSCOW — A fire sparked by a car bomb has broken out on a key road and rail bridge linking Crimea to Russia, which annexed the territory from Ukraine in 2014, Moscow authorities said Saturday.

"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,"

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.

Saturday's explosion on the bridge over the Kerch Strait, for which Russia did not immediately assign blame, prompted gleeful messages from Ukrainian officials ...

It said two spans of road bridge had partially collapsed, but that the arch spanning the channel through which ships travel between the Black Sea and Azov Sea was not damaged. The Russian National Anti-Terrorism Committee said a freight truck had blown up on the bridge’s roadway at 6:07 a.m. Russian officials said three people had been killed, probably the occupants of a car travelling near a truck that blew up. 24, Ukrainian officials have regularly suggested they want to destroy the bridge. It designated Air Force General Sergei Surovikin to take charge of the invasion effort. Russia’s defence ministry said its forces in southern Ukraine could be “fully supplied” through existing land and sea routes.

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."

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.

The Kerch Bridge, a key supply route for Russian forces, was hit by a blast on Saturday, killing three people.

Thousands of Russian troops have retreated from the area in recent days, leaving behind extensive destruction in villages and forests. So the answers should be sought in Russia,” he said. [key road and rail bridge](/news/2022/10/9/russian-divers-to-inspect-damage-to-vital-crimea-bridge-link) linking Russia with Crimea hours after it was partially destroyed by a truck explosion, and an [ investigation is under way](/news/2022/10/9/russian-divers-to-inspect-damage-to-vital-crimea-bridge-link) to find out who was behind the attack.

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.

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 Russian missile strike killed at least 13 people in Zaporizhzhia, authorities said on Sunday—the latest deadly attack targeting the southern Ukrainian ...

He has combat experience from the 1990s conflicts in Tajikistan and Chechnya, as well as, more recently, in Syria. Zelensky's adviser Mykhailo Podolyak posted a picture on Twitter of a long section of the bridge half-submerged. Surovikin previously led Russia's military in southern Ukraine. Dramatic footage showed it burning and a road section plunging into the water. But in a later statement, he appeared to suggest Moscow had a hand in the blast, noting the truck that detonated "entered the bridge from the Russian side." It is also hugely symbolic.

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.