Crimea bridge

Russian authorities reported on Saturday that a large blaze erupted on the only bridge linking mainland Russia to the occupied Crimean Peninsula.

Work to extinguish the blaze is underway," Oleg Kryuchko, an aide to the Russian occupation head of Crimea said via Telegram, according to TASS news agency. "Crimea, the bridge, the beginning. "According to preliminary information, a fuel storage tank is on fire ... It was built on his orders shortly after the Kremlin annexed Crimea in 2014 to support Moscow's claims to the territory. local time before the road partially collapsed. It is too early to speak about causes and consequences.

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 blast on the bridge occurred hours after explosions rocked the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, sending towering plumes of smoke into the sky and ...

The Association of Russia's tourist agencies estimated that about 50,000 tourists were in Crimea on vacation at the time of the blast. Dmytro Zhyvytskyi, the regional governor, said on Telegram that a 51-year-old civilian man had been killed. Russian missiles damaged more than 40 apartment buildings on Thursday in the Ukrainian-controlled city, which is nevertheless the official capital of a region Moscow moved to illegally annex last week. Irina Mezavtsova, a deputy head of the regional ministry for industrial policies, said there would be no restrictions on sales of consumer products. Sinehubov said Russia had deployed S-300s missiles in the strike. An advisor to Zelenskyy, Mykhailo Podolyak, tweeted: "Crimea, the bridge, the beginning. President" on the right. "And this is just the beginning. The $3.6 billion project is a tangible symbol of Moscow's claims on Crimea and has provided an essential link to the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014. Ukrainian officials have repeatedly threatened to strike the bridge and some lauded the attack, but Kyiv stopped short of claiming responsibility. The bridge has train and automobile sections. The Peninsula holds symbolic value for Russia and is key to sustaining its military operations in the south of Ukraine.

MOSCOW: Moscow announced Saturday (Oct 8) that a truck exploded igniting a huge fire and damaging the key Kerch bridge - built as Russia's sole land link ...

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. Advertisement

The Kerch Bridge, which was built on the orders of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has been a key transport link for carrying military equipment to ...

President Vladimir Putin's flagship bridge to Crimea was severely damaged in a blast that hit a fuel train and caused the partial collapse of the only road ...

KYIV: A powerful explosion seriously damaged Russia's road-and-rail bridge to Crimea on Saturday, hitting a prestige symbol of Moscow's annexation of the ...

In a video message Sergei Aksyonov, the Crimea governor, said he wanted to "assure Crimeans that the Republic of Crimea is fully provided with fuel and food. Others taken from a distance showed thick smoke pouring from part of the bridge. The Russian National Anti-Terrorism Committee said a freight truck had blown up on the bridge's roadway at 6.07 a.m. Ukraine's postal service said on Saturday it would print a special stamp to commemorate the blast. Goods vehicles were being referred to a ferry service. Don't panic."

Moscow vowed to find the perpetrators, without immediately blaming Ukraine. Read more at straitstimes.com.

United States President Joe Biden on Thursday warned that the world was facing "Armageddon", as Mr Putin may use his atomic arsenal. "Crimea, the bridge, the beginning," he wrote. 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. "On the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic, a grouping of troops of the Donetsk and Luhansk republics, with fire support from Russian forces, liberated Otradovka, Veselaya Dolina and Zaitsevo," separatist forces said on social media. [pushing back against Russian soldiers](https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/ukraine-recovers-more-territory-in-region-russia-claims-to-have-annexed) across the front lines in the south and in the east, including in parts of Donetsk. [ the European Union imposed a fresh round of sanctions on Moscow.](https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/eu-ambassadors-agree-on-new-sanctions-against-russia-czech-eu-presidency) It said a truck exploded "on the automobile part of the Crimean bridge from the side of the Taman Peninsula". Separatist forces in the war-battered Donetsk region said they had retaken a series of villages near the Ukraine-controlled industrial town of Bakhmut, which has been under Russian shelling for weeks. [Russia's Orthodox leader said President Putin's rule had been mandated by God,](https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/god-put-you-in-power-russian-orthodox-leader-tells-putin-on-70th-birthday) congratulating him on his 70th birthday, and as the Nobel Committee awarded the Peace Prize to rights defenders in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Mr Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to the head of the office of Ukraine's presidency, took to Twitter posting a picture of a long section of the bridge half-submerged in the water. Sergei Aksyonov, the Russian-appointed governor of the Crimean peninsula, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014, said on social media that heavy goods vehicles would have to wait to cross by ferry. "Today at 6.07am on the road traffic side of the Crimean bridge...

A blast on the strategic road-and-rail bridge linking Russia and the Crimean Peninsula on Saturday (8 October) brought down sections of the road taking ...

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. Ukraine’s postal service said on Saturday it would print a special stamp to commemorate the blast. Don’t panic.” The images could not immediately be verified. “Keep calm.

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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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday ordered tighter security for the bridge from Russia to Crimea as well as the infrastructure supplying ...

Oct 8 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday ordered tighter security for the bridge from Russia to Crimea as well as the infrastructure supplying electricity and natural gas to the peninsula, Interfax said. [The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.](https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en/about-us/trust-principles.html) In a decree issued hours after the bridge was damaged by a blast, Putin said the FSB security service would be responsible for strengthening protection measures.

The bridge linking Moscow-annexed Crimea to the Russian mainland has reopened to car traffic after it was heavily damaged by an explosion, ...

KYIV - Russian divers will examine on Sunday the damage caused by a powerful blast on Russia's road-and-rail bridge to Crimea that hit a prestigious symbol ...

The Russian National Anti-Terrorism Committee said a freight truck had blown up on the bridge's roadway at 6.07am. Russian officials said three people had been killed, probably the occupants of a car travelling near a truck that blew up. "This is a future without occupiers, across our territory, particularly in Crimea." 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. "The situation is manageable - it's unpleasant, but not fatal," Crimea's Russian governor, Sergei Aksyonov, told reporters.

KYIV – A powerful blast damaged Russia's road-and-rail bridge to Crimea on Saturday (Oct 8), hitting a prestigious symbol of Moscow's annexation of the ...

Goods vehicles were being referred to a ferry service. Russian officials said three people had been killed, probably the occupants of a car travelling near a truck that blew up. "The situation is manageable – it's unpleasant, but not fatal," Crimea's Russian governor Sergei Aksyonov told reporters. The head of Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council posted a video of the bridge on social media alongside a video of Marilyn Monroe singing "Happy birthday, Mr President". He earlier said the peninsula had a month's worth of fuel and more than two months' worth of food. Don't panic."

The bridge linking Moscow-annexed Crimea to the Russian mainland has reopened to car traffic after it was heavily damaged by an explosion, ...

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.

The Kerch bridge was badly damaged after a truck exploded on its road section and a cargo train caught fire.

The Russian National Anti-Terrorism Committee said a truck had blown up on the bridge’s roadway at 6:07am (03:07 GMT) on Saturday. Russian officials said three people had been killed, probably the occupants of a car travelling near a truck that blew up. “It is a demonstration to Russians, and the rest of the world, that Russia’s military cannot protect any of the provinces it recently annexed,” he wrote on Twitter. “This is a future without occupiers, across our territory, particularly in Crimea.” Russia’s defence ministry said its forces in southern Ukraine could be “fully supplied” through existing land and sea routes. our future is sunny,” he added.

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.

Experts to assess extent of damage as limited traffic appears to resume on key bridge and Vladimir Putin orders extra security for infrastructure.

The Russian National Anti-Terrorism Committee said a freight truck had blown up on the bridge’s roadway at 6.07am (0307 GMT). Russian officials said three people had been killed, probably the occupants of a car travelling near a truck that blew up. [it had appointed a notorious veteran with a bloody record](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/08/russia-appoints-notorious-general-sergei-surovikin-ukraine) as its first overall commander for the war in Ukraine. Sergei Surovikin opened fire on pro-democracy protesters in the 1990s and led the 2017 Russian military expedition in Syria, where he was accused of using contentious tactics, including indiscriminate bombing of anti-government fighters. Ukraine did not directly claim responsibility for the attack, which Russia said was carried out by a truck bomb. Apartment buildings and roads in a residential area were damaged, Anatoliy Kurtev said on Telegram. “This is a future without occupiers, across our territory, particularly in Crimea.“ our future is sunny,” he said. Russia’s defence ministry said its forces in southern Ukraine could be “fully supplied” through existing land and sea routes. Russia has previously threatened retaliation for any attack on the bridge. The bridge is a major artery for the Russian forces that control most of southern Ukraine’s Kherson region and for the Russian naval port of Sevastopol, whose governor told locals: “Keep calm, don’t panic.” Russian divers are to examine the extent of the damage caused by a powerful blast on Russia’s road-and-rail bridge to Crimea, a hated symbol of Russian occupation and key logistics link for Russian troops in southern

KYIV: Russian divers were to examine on Sunday (Oct 9) the damage from a powerful blast on a road-and-rail bridge to Crimea that is an imposing symbol of ...

Moscow designated Air Force General Sergei Surovikin to take charge of the invasion effort. Russia's federal anti-terrorism agency said on Saturday that a freight truck blew up on the bridge's roadway. Russian officials said three people were killed in the blast early on Saturday morning. Russia's defence ministry said on Saturday its forces in southern Ukraine could be "fully supplied" through existing land and sea routes. "The situation is manageable - it's unpleasant, but not fatal," Crimea's Russian governor, Sergei Aksyonov, told reporters. Saturday's explosion on the bridge over the Kerch Strait prompted gleeful messages from Ukrainian officials but no claim of responsibility.

Russian divers will examine the damage caused by a powerful blast on Moscow's road-and-rail bridge, a key supply route to forces battling in southern ...

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.

Driving the news: By Saturday night, some limited road and rail traffic had resumed on the Kerch Bridge. Russia's Ministry of Transport said on Sunday that all ...

faces the highest chance of "Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban missile crisis" after Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a [veiled nuclear threat](https://www.axios.com/2022/09/21/putin-announces-partial-military-mobilization-for-russian-citizens) last month. [Biden](https://www.axios.com/2022/10/07/biden-putin-russia-ukraine-armageddon) warned Thursday that the U.S. [stark "Armageddon" warning](https://www.axios.com/2022/10/07/biden-putin-russia-ukraine-armageddon), White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre [said](https://youtu.be/IC6Un1JMDZY) Friday. [New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/08/world/europe/ukraine-crimea-bridge-explosion.html). [Kerch Strait Bridge](https://www.axios.com/2022/10/08/kerch-bridge-damage-ukraine-russia) that links Crimea to Russia surfaced online Saturday. [Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russias-ria-state-agency-reports-fuel-tank-fire-kerch-bridge-crimea-2022-10-08/).

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Any impediment to traffic on the bridge could affect Russia's ability to wage war in southern Ukraine, where Ukraine's forces have been fighting an ...

Peskov, referred to the episode as an “emergency” in a statement on Saturday. The strike set off a series of explosions that eventually caused the cruiser to sink, killing an unknown number of sailors, including possibly the ship’s captain. “It is another ratchet of the pressure on President Putin.” Without it, analysts said, the Russian military will be severely limited in its ability to bring fuel, equipment and ammunition to Russian units fighting in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, two of the four Ukrainian provinces that Mr. A small sedan and a tractor-trailer truck driving side by side appear at the epicenter of the blast. In video captured by a surveillance camera on the bridge, a huge fireball is seen, seeming to consume several vehicles. American officials said that they were not aware of the plan ahead of time and that they had admonished Ukraine over it. Any serious impediment to traffic on the bridge could have a profound effect on Russia’s ability to wage war in southern Ukraine, where Ukrainian forces have been fighting an increasingly effective counteroffensive. The explosion is emblematic of a Russian military in disarray. By Saturday evening, the railroad section of the bridge had undergone repairs and a train with 15 cars had successfully crossed the span, according to a Russian state news agency, Tass. Car traffic had also resumed on the undamaged side of the bridge, the head of Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, said in a post on Telegram. The official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of a government ban on discussing the blast, added that Ukraine’s intelligence services had orchestrated the explosion, using a bomb loaded onto a truck being driven across the bridge.

Divers were to inspect the waters beneath the Crimea bridge on Sunday a day after a huge blast damaged Russia's key road and rail link to the annexed ...

Aksyonov urged Crimeans to remain "calm" and said the "situation is under control". Officals said car and train traffic had resumed over the bridge, with Moscow's transport ministry saying Sunday that long-distance passenger trains from Crimea to Russia were "moving according to the standard schedule". He also said the "first results" of Russia's inspection of the bridge were due Sunday.

Russian president to hold meeting of security council after attack on key military supply route.

Vladimir Putin accuses Ukraine of attacking the bridge to Crimea, saying it was an "act of terrorism".

"Bridges are generally designed to resist downwards loads on the deck and a certain amount of side loading from the wind," he said. "They are not generally engineered to resist upward loads. The speed with which the truck bomb theory started to spread in Russian circles was suspicious. "I've seen plenty of large vehicle-borne IEDs [improvised explosive devices] in my time," a former British army explosives expert told me. It suggested the Kremlin preferred an act of terrorism to a more alarming possibility: that this was an audacious act of sabotage carried out by Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused Ukraine of attacking the bridge to Russian-annexed Crimea, saying that it was an "act of terrorism".

KYIV - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday accused Ukraine of orchestrating the powerful blast that damaged a bridge linking Russia and Crimea, ...

"Of course, emotions have been triggered and there is a healthy desire to seek revenge." Limited road traffic resumed on Saturday around 10 hours after the blast. Rail services and partial road traffic resumed a day after the blast.

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.

KYIV: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday (Oct 9) accused Ukraine of orchestrating the powerful blast that damaged a key bridge linking Russia and ...

The capital of the region, Zaporizhzhia city, remains under Ukrainian control. Russia's defence ministry said on Saturday its forces in southern Ukraine could be "fully supplied" through existing land and sea routes. "Of course, emotions have been triggered and there is a healthy desire to seek revenge," he said. Crimea's Russian governor, Sergei Aksyonov, told reporters, that residents would manage despite the damage to the bridge. Rail services and partial road traffic resumed a day after the blast. Advertisement

Most evidence points to a truck bomb, as Kyiv holds off on claiming responsibility for the attack.

President Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine of carrying out an attack that badly damaged a key bridge linking annexed Crimea to the Russian mainland, ...

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

KYIV: Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine of orchestrating what he called a terrorist attack on a key bridge linking Russia and Crimea, ...

The capital of the region, Zaporizhzhia city, remains under Ukrainian control. "This was a deliberate hit. Bastrykin said the vehicle had travelled through Bulgaria, Georgia, Armenia, North Ossetia and Russia's Krasnodar region before reaching the bridge. This is what Russian citizens expect," he was quoted as saying by state news agency Tass. Advertisement "There is no doubt.