![]() ![]() The Crimean Bridge is a pair of parallel bridges, one carrying a four-lane road and the other a double-track railway, spanning the Kerch Strait between Russia on the east side and Crimea in Ukraine on the west side. The Russian Federal Security Service detained five Russian citizens and three people from Ukraine and Armenia accused of organising the attack. ![]() The BBC claimed it was more likely caused by a maritime drone. Russian officials and a "senior Ukrainian official" speaking to The New York Times said the explosion was from a bomb loaded onto a truck. However, in July 2023, Ukraine's Deputy Minister of Defense Hanna Maliar acknowledged Ukraine had conducted the attack "in order to break the logistics of the Russians." Soon after, the Ukrainian Security Service confirmed it was behind the attack. ![]() ![]() At the time, no-one claimed responsibility for the explosion and Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that the Ukrainian government "did not order" it. The explosion occurred the day after the 70th birthday of Russian President Vladimir Putin and one week after the announcement of the annexation of four Ukrainian regions by Russia. The damage reduced the transport capacity of the bridge, which is being used to supply Russian troops in Crimea during the invasion of Ukraine. Five people were killed, and the Investigative Committee of Russia launched an investigation. The railway bridge was also significantly damaged by a railway tanker car that caught fire. Two adjacent eastbound lanes on a separate structure survived. Two two- lane vehicular spans of the bridge collapsed into the water. On 8 October 2022, at 6:07 am, a fire broke out on the Crimean Bridge as a result of an explosion, which occurred on the road bridge, on or under the westbound vehicle lanes running from Russia to Kerch in Russian-occupied Crimea. Bryansk Oblast military aircraft crashes.Strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure. ![]()
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