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Explosion takes out span of bridge between Russia and Crimea [1]

['Rob Beschizza']

Date: 2022-10-08

An explosion, variously claimed to be caused by a truck, a boat or shelling, took out a span of the recently-opened road bridge linking Russia and Crimea, and triggered a serious fire on the adjacent rail bridge. Russia claims the bridge has already been reopened in the hours since, and that three people are reported dead. The bridge is "key to moving Russian equipment into Ukraine".

Closer look at the collapsed road span of the Crimean bridge pic.twitter.com/ZW1OOAKdns — OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) October 8, 2022

The BBC's analyst writes that it signals "dire" trouble for Russia that Ukraine was apparently able to launch this attack and to have succeeded.

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