The blasts come after Ukraine's recent lightning territorial gains in the east and south that have undermined the Kremlin's claim that it annexed Donetsk, neighboring Luhansk and the southern regions of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson. There have been several explosions at Russian military installations in the Crimean peninsula and if it is established that Ukraine was behind the latest blast, alarm bells may sound with the bridge so far from the front line. The Ukrainian post office announced it was preparing to print stamps showing the "Crimean bridge - or more precisely, what remains of it." "Everything illegal must be destroyed, everything stolen must be returned to Ukraine, everything occupied by Russia must be expelled."
"Crimea, the bridge, the beginning," he wrote. The head of the office of Ukraine's presidency, Mykhailo Podolyak, took to Twitter posting a picture of a long section of the bridge half-submerged in the waters. "If we stay quiet and do not give an adequate response, then such attacks will multiply," he said. "There is an undisguised terrorist war against us," Russian ruling party deputy Oleg Morozov told the RIA Novosti news agency. While officials in Moscow stopped short of blaming Kyiv, an official in Russian-installed Crimea pointed the finger at "Ukrainian vandals."Īnother in the neighboring Kherson region said repairs could "take two months."Īnd the spokeswoman of Russia's foreign ministry said that Kyiv's reaction to the blasts showed its "terrorist nature."
As a result, two lanes partially collapsed." This "caused seven fuel tanks to ignite on a train heading toward the Crimea Peninsula. It said a truck exploded "on the automobile part of the Crimean bridge from the side of the Taman Peninsula." Russia's powerful investigative committee opened a criminal probe into the explosion and sent detectives to the scene. The Kremlin spokesman said Putin had ordered a commission to be set up to look into the blast, Russian news agencies reported. Moscow had maintained the bridge crossing was safe despite the fighting. The bridge, personally inaugurated by President Vladimir Putin in 2018, is a vital transport link for carrying military equipment to Russian soldiers fighting in 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. "Today at 6:07 am on the road traffic side of the Crimean bridge. Russia said the blast set ablaze seven oil tankers by transported by train and collapsed two car lanes of the giant road and rail structure.ĭramatic social media footage showed the bridge on fire with parts plunging into the sea. Moscow announced earlier that a truck exploded igniting a huge fire and damaging the key Kerch bridge - built as Russia's sole land link with annexed Crimea - and vowed to find the perpetrators, without immediately blaming Ukraine.
They added that the truck's "route movement documentation" was being studied. "Investigative actions have been launched at his place of residence," the investigators said.
Investigators said a resident of Russia's southern Krasnodar region, which it did not name, was the owner of the car. It said their identities were being confirmed, giving no details on the third body. The statement said the bodies of two victims - “a man and a woman" - had been lifted out of the water. It said they were likely to be "passengers of a car that was near the truck that exploded." "According to preliminary information, three people were killed," Russia's investigative committee said in a statement. Russian investigators Saturday said three people were killed after a truck exploded on its bridge linking Moscow-annexed Crimea to the mainland, adding that the owner of the vehicle had been identified.
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