Russian President Vladimir Putin sent subordinates scrambling to explain their failure to protect the Crimea bridge from Ukraine’s forces, which policymakers in Kyiv celebrated as “a blow” to the strategic and symbolic span linking Russia's mainland to the occupied Ukrainian peninsula.
“This bridge became a symbol for Putin and a symbol of Putin's control over Crimea, and that's why we need to destroy it, even right now,” senior Ukrainian lawmaker Oleksander Merezhko, who chairs the Ukrainian parliament’s foreign affairs committee, told the Washington Examiner. “It will deliver a blow to the image of Putin in Russia, and it will show that the de-occupation and liberation of Crimea has started.
The early morning strike killed two adults who happened to be driving on the bridge at the time and injured their daughter, according to Russian officials and footage that circulated on social media. It underscored the vulnerability of a key ground transportation link between Russia and Crimea just months after Putin drove across the bridge in order to showcase the repairs following an October strike.
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