Smoke is seen rising from the bridge which links occupied Crimea with Russia's Krasnodar region.
Video shared on social media on Saturday shows smoke coming from the Kerch Bridge linking Moscow-occupied Crimea with Russia's mainland.
Sergey Aksyonov, the Moscow-appointed head of the peninsula which Russia annexed in 2014, wrote on Telegram that"air defense forces shot down two Ukrainian missiles in the Kerch Strait area." This screen grab from social media shows the aftermath of what has been reported as a strike on Kerch Bridge which links occupied Crimea with Russia's Krasnodar region.Meanwhile, Russian state media outlet RIA Novosti said that the country's special services had installed a"smokescreen" by the bridge and that"traffic will resume soon."
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