Russian authorities claim the rail and road bridge linking Russia to the annexed Crimean peninsula is already partly open and the damage to it “insignificant” after a blast that killed three.
Security Service of Ukraine / Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesRussian authorities claim the rail and road bridge linking Russia to the annexed Crimean peninsula is already partly open and the damage to it “insignificant”.
The Russians have revealed that at least three people were killed in the blast, however — passengers in a car engulfed by the conflagration. According toby the Russian investigators, the victims were “passengers of a car that was near the truck that exploded” on the bridge, and the owner of the passenger vehicle was a resident of Russia’s Krasnodar region. Investigators said the bodies of at least two of the victims have been retrieved from the water and their identities were being confirmed.
Pictures and video of the bridge show a part of the road section collapsed into the sea and the rail section engulfed in flames — the result, Russia claims, of a truck exploding on the road section as a train carrying fuel was passing by on the rail section. While Ukraine has made no secret of its plans to strike the bridge, its official position on whether or not they are responsible for the explosion is, as of the time of publication, somewhat ambiguous.
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