The Crimean Bridge: Past, Present, and Future Threats

“The supports of the Kerch bridge are tired. It’s time,” they noted in the public.

Crimean bridge

This is a bridge across the Kerch Strait, which connects the temporarily occupied Crimea with Russia, that is, the Kerch and Taman Peninsulas. It was built by the Russians after the illegal annexation of the peninsula. In 2018, the automobile part was opened, a year later the railway part for passenger transport and in 2020 for freight.

It should be noted that the invaders also use the bridge for military purposes to secure their invaders in Ukraine.

Explosion on the Crimean bridge

In October 2022, due to an explosion on the Crimean bridge, two half-sections of its automobile part collapsed and the railway track was damaged.

Then the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin called it a “terrorist attack”, and the “perpetrators” were the special services of Ukraine. The Ukrainian side did not directly confirm that it was involved in undermining the bridge, but repeatedly noted that the Crimean bridge is a legitimate target for our military.

Recently, the head of the SBU said that the secret service had taken “certain measures” to undermine the Crimean bridge.

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