An explosion has
destroyed the sole bridge linking Russia with the occupied Crimea peninsula.
According to viral footage on social media on Saturday,
plums of smoke and fire can be seen engulfing two railway carriages from a
train with segments of the bridge collapsed.
According to BBC,
Russia’s National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAC) said the explosion happened in
the early hours of Saturday.
“At 06:07 Moscow time today [03:07 GMT], an explosion was set off at a cargo vehicle on the motorway part of the Crimean bridge on the side of the Taman peninsula, which set fire to seven fuel tanks of a train that was en route to the Crimean peninsula,” the committee said.
“Two motorway
sections of the bridge partially collapsed.”
In 2018, Vladimir Putin, president of Russia, commissioned the
bridge following the annexation of Crimea four years prior.
Kyiv has always viewed the bridge as an affront to its
authority and the crossing gained renewed notoriety after it became the route
where Russia moved military equipment to support its invasion of Ukraine.
Vladimir Konstantinov, Pro-Russia’s Crimean parliamentary
speaker, blamed the explosion on “Ukrainian vandals, who have finally managed
to reach their bloody hands to the Crimean bridge”.
He added the damage to the bridge would be “promptly
restored since it is not of a serious nature”.
Ukraine is yet to claim responsibility for the explosion.
Russia and Ukraine have been at war since Putin ordered the
invasion of the neighbouring country earlier this year.
All attempts at peace are yet to yield a lasting ceasefire
between the two countries.
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