The bridge that connects the Crimean Peninsula with mainland Russia has been damaged by a truck bombing, the National Anti-Terrorism Committee said on Saturday.
Officials said that the blast, which occurred shortly after 6am local time, caused a partial collapse of the road on the vehicle section. It also triggered a blaze on a freight train on the parallel rail section, with seven fuel tanks catching fire.
“The arch above the shipping section of the bridge has not been damaged,” the committee added.
An unverified video appears to show the moment of the blast.
A video from the scene that was posted on social media appears to show the fuel tank fire and the damage to the road.
Nikolay Lukashenko, the acting regional transport minister, told reporters that the authorities are considering launching a ferry service.
The 19-kilometer (11.8 mile) bridge, which runs across the Kerch Strait and connects Crimea with mainland Russia, consists of a railway section and a vehicle section. It became fully operational in 2020.
In the US it would have taken months to fix, they got it running in less than 24 hours. We really need to get all the beurocratic bull crud out of our way. We have a dam that has needed fixed for 20 years, here in Calif, the army core of engineers is some of the slow down, also ecology reports that take over 10 years,
Pretty low tech attack considering the weapons we are supposedly sending.
Well this was attack on Russia itself, Ukraine fuck this up completly.
https://t.me/bazabazon/13715
This channel on telegram has some pretty good pics & videos of the bridge
https://www.rt.com/russia/564274-crimean-bridge-damage-caused-explosion/
https://web.archive.org/web/20221008070335/https://www.rt.com/russia/564274-crimean-bridge-damage-caused-explosion/
The bridge that connects the Crimean Peninsula with mainland Russia has been damaged by a truck bombing, the National Anti-Terrorism Committee said on Saturday.
Officials said that the blast, which occurred shortly after 6am local time, caused a partial collapse of the road on the vehicle section. It also triggered a blaze on a freight train on the parallel rail section, with seven fuel tanks catching fire.
“The arch above the shipping section of the bridge has not been damaged,” the committee added.
An unverified video appears to show the moment of the blast.
A video from the scene that was posted on social media appears to show the fuel tank fire and the damage to the road.
Nikolay Lukashenko, the acting regional transport minister, told reporters that the authorities are considering launching a ferry service.
The 19-kilometer (11.8 mile) bridge, which runs across the Kerch Strait and connects Crimea with mainland Russia, consists of a railway section and a vehicle section. It became fully operational in 2020.
In the US it would have taken months to fix, they got it running in less than 24 hours. We really need to get all the beurocratic bull crud out of our way. We have a dam that has needed fixed for 20 years, here in Calif, the army core of engineers is some of the slow down, also ecology reports that take over 10 years,
There is will be retaliation by Russia. Zelensky is a fool.