Russia’s National Counter-Terrorism Committee said the truck bomb caused a fire in seven railway cars carrying fuel, resulting in “the partial collapse of two sections of the bridge.” The committee did not immediately plead guilty.
Russia’s National Counter-Terrorism Committee said the truck bomb caused a fire in seven railway cars carrying fuel, resulting in “the partial collapse of two sections of the bridge.” The committee did not immediately plead guilty.
Russian officials said a truck bomb caught fire on Saturday and a section of a bridge connecting Russia’s Crimea with Russia. The faltering war effort in southern Ukraine,
attack on the bridge Russian President Vladimir Putin 70. one day after the yearGiving him a humiliating blow that could lead him to move on in his war on Ukraine.
Russia’s National Counter-Terrorism Committee said the truck bomb caused a fire in seven railway cars carrying fuel, resulting in “the partial collapse of two sections of the bridge.” The committee did not immediately plead guilty.
The Crimean peninsula holds symbolic significance for Russia and is important for maintaining its military operations in the south. If the bridge is disabled, it will make it more challenging to supply supplies to the peninsula. While Russia occupied areas north of Crimea during the invasion and built a land corridor along the Azov Sea, Ukraine is conducting a countermeasure to reclaim them.
The bridge houses train and automobile sections. Russia’s National Counter-Terrorism Committee specified that two sections of one of the two links of the automobile bridge collapsed due to the explosion and fire, while another link remained intact.
Authorities have suspended commuter train traffic across the bridge until further notice. Mr. Putin was informed of the explosion and ordered a government panel to deal with the emergency.
Europe’s longest bridge, the main link of Crimea
The 19-kilometre (12-mile) bridge across the Kerch Strait connecting the Black Sea and the Azov Sea is the longest in Europe. It has provided a necessary link to the Crimean peninsula, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014. Ukrainian authorities have repeatedly threatened to attack the bridge.
Russia opened the first part of the period to car traffic in May 2018. The parallel bridge for rail traffic was opened the following year.
The $3.6 billion project is a solid symbol of Moscow’s claims on Crimea. It was Russia’s only land link to the peninsula, until Russian forces seized much of Ukrainian territory at the northern end of the Azov Sea in heavy fighting earlier this year, particularly around the city of Mariupol.
In August, Russia suffered a series of explosions at an airbase and munitions depot in Crimea, which underscored its vulnerability.
Hours after Kharkiv strike
Hours after blasts in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, a truck bomb hit a bridge early Saturday, sending a plume of smoke into the sky and causing several other explosions.
Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said on Telegram that the early morning blast was the result of missile strikes in the city centre. He said the blasts caused fire to a medical institute and a non-residential building in the city. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
The explosions came hours after Russia focused the attacks on Ukraine after an increasingly escalating attack on Ukraine. territories it occupied illegallyWhile the death toll from earlier missile attacks on apartment buildings in the southern city of Zaporizhzhya rose to 14.
Norwegian Nobel Committee on Friday awarded the Nobel Peace Prize For human rights organizations in Russia and Ukraine, and for an activist jailed in Belarus, a Moscow ally.
Committee chairman Berit Rees-Andersen said the honor went to “three outstanding champions of human rights, democracy and peaceful coexistence”, although it was widely recognized as one of the worst armed conflicts between Putin and Europe since World War II. was seen as a reprimand for his conduct. ,
Mr. Putin Documents signed on Wednesday Ukraine for illegally claiming four regions as Russian territory, including the Zaporizhzhya region that is home to Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, whose reactors were shut down last month.
That move was foreshadowed by Russia’s annexation of Crimea in March 2014, after Moscow’s alleged residents of the peninsula voted to join with Russia. That move was widely condemned, and prompted sanctions from the US and the European Union.