Sources in the Ukrainian security services told AFP on Monday, July 17, that Ukrainian special forces and naval forces were behind the attack on the Crimean bridge that connects Russia to the annexed peninsula. “Today’s attack on the Crimean bridge is a special operation of the SBU and the Navy”This source indicated to Agence France-Presse, explaining that The bridge was attacked using drones..
Today, Monday, the Russian authorities said that two civilians, a man and a woman who were driving on the bridge, were killed and their daughter injured in this attack. The couple was from the Belgorod region.
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Ukraine: The War That Continued
After being temporarily closed, train traffic resumed before 9 am, according to Le Monde newspaper. In a video clip shared by the head of the Russian occupation in the Zaporizhia region Vladimir Rogov, we see the bridge and the part damaged by the attack.
“Today’s attack on the Crimean bridge was carried out by the Kiev regime”The correspondent of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, denounced it on Telegram.
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The attacks took place overnight from Sunday to Monday, around 3 a.m., in the area of ​​Column 145 of the Krasnodar Territory, located in southwestern Russia. Then the traffic stopped.
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was the sidewalk “Consists”Russia’s Transport Ministry said on Telegram, without confirming possible damage to the structure’s columns.
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Russia’s state news agency TASS reported, citing local authorities, that a coordination center has been set up within the Crimean ministry and investigators are on the spot.
Counterattack: Ukrainian soldiers facing the Russian wall
The official RIA Novosti news agency announced early Monday morning that as a result of the bridge being closed to traffic, a traffic jam has formed at the entrance to the bridge, but its length has been reduced to 3 kilometers. Determine which entry it was.
Rail transport across the bridge has been temporarily suspended as well as ferry traffic “Between Crimea and Kuban” (Southern Russia), TASS reported.
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The rear base of the Russian forces
Crimea, annexed by Moscow in 2014, serves as a rear base for Russian forces, mainly for sending reinforcements and maintaining equipment. The few bridges connecting the peninsula with occupied southern Ukraine are essential for Moscow’s military operations.
The bridge, which spans the Kerch Strait, was opened in 2018, and was damaged in October 2022 due to a powerful explosion that the Russian authorities attributed to a truck bomb by Ukrainian intelligence. Kiev denied being the source of this explosion.
In June, the Chongar Bridge, which connects Crimea to partially occupied territory in southern Ukraine, was hit by a Ukrainian strike, according to Russian authorities. The head of the administration in the occupied part of the Kherson region later stated that he was not “No longer usable in traffic” currently.
