Traffic restarts on Kerch bridge after Ukrainian attack • FRANCE 24 English

1,100 kg of explosives detonated on the seabed hitting the loadbearing pillars of the Crimeir Bridge says Kiev essential for transporting supplies to Russian forces the bridge has a dual carriageway road and double track railway measuring 19 km from east to west it was a flagship Russian infrastructure project opened in 2018 to link Russia to Crimea after they annexed the peninsula 4 years earlier moscow said the bridge had only been closed for 3 hours but it’s a coup for Kiev just days after they launched a massive drone attack this weekend that destroyed dozens of Russian planes at air bases as far away as Siberia but on Ukrainian soil civilian casualties continue several were killed by rockets in the northeastern city of Sunumi and dozens more were injured a woman who was nearby suffered a severe abdominal injury we dragged her into the pharmacy and did everything we could but the injury was serious i don’t know what happened to her after that then the paramedics arrived we helped load her into the vehicle and they took her to the hospital sunumi has been a key hub for organizing Ukraine’s months-long incursion into the Kursk region and as such has been a frequent target of Russian strikes president Zalinski said last week that Moscow was preparing to send tens of thousands of troops into the region the cities of Odessa and Cherniv were also targeted on Monday night and the day after ceasefire negotiations in Istanbul President Zilinski repeated his call for decisive action from Europe and the US to force Moscow into a ceasefire bye

Traffic resumed on the Kerch Bridge on Tuesday hours after Ukraine daringly used underwater explosives to damage the structure, which Russia built to access Crimea after it annexed the region in 2010. The operation followed another audacious Ukrainian attack on aircraft deep into Russian territory days earlier, while Moscow continued its offensive across Ukraine, killing several in the Sumy region.
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17 comments

  2. Imagine if a foreign power attacked American strategic bombers. Clearly Ukraine did not carry out the attack, it was done with the CIA. The Ukrainians would not do this without the approval of the US. They would risk displeasing the US and losing their support.

  3. Are the cynical Russians forcing people to travel across the bridge in order to determine if it will withstand traffic again? Without doing any true engineering testing.

  4. These recent pinprick attacks by Ukraine are nothing more than PR stunts that have no effect on the overall status of the war. They are just tantrum attacks for not getting the ceasefire they crave.

  9. What is never mentioned by main stream media…how Russia has never attacked the bridges over the Dnieper. All Ukrainian soldiers and their equipment must cross these bridges. ?

  13. Why would Russia accept a ceasefire when they are winning and Ukraine is doing a lot of damage but of no military strategic consequence and still does not accept the reality that the eastern provinces do not want to be part of Ukraine.!

  14. The Russian experts work very fast. Only 3 hours to conclude that the bridge is safe after a massive explosion. What could possibly go wrong? 😂😂😂😂

  15. this is what you call a failure, Ukraine did not achieve the objective on taking out the bridge and wasted an opportunity and put the Russians on higher alert.

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