‘Blasts’ on Crimea Bridge kill 2, key Russian provide line broken

By India Today World Desk: A pair from Russia’s Belgorod area was killed and their little one injured after the Crimea Bridge was broken in an “emergency incident”, Russian officers stated on Monday. However, Ukrainian media reported there have been explosions on the bridge.

Russia’s Grey Zone channel, a closely adopted Telegram channel affiliated with the Wagner mercenary group, reported that there have been two strikes on the bridge at 03:04 a.m. (0004 GMT) and 03:20 a.m.

Amid reviews of blasts, Russian officers advised Reuters that visitors was halted on the Russian-built bridge linking Russia to Crimea, which Moscow seized in 2014. The Crimea Bridge is a key provide line for Russian troops in Ukraine.

“This morning we all started with information about the emergency that happened on the Crimean Bridge. We all saw a video on the internet of a damaged car with Belgorod number plates,” Belgorod’s governor Vyacheslav Gladkov wrote.

“The lady was injured, reasonably injured â€æ The hardest factor is that her mother and father died, dad and mother,” he stated.

The mother and father of a lady have been killed and their daughter was injured in a passenger automotive on the bridge early on Monday, stated Vyacheslav Gladkov. He didn’t say how the folks have been killed.

Sergei Aksyonov, a Russia-installed governor, stated the emergency occurred on the 145th pillar of the bridge which hyperlinks the Crimean peninsula to Russia’s Krasnodar. He didn’t present any additional particulars.

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Russia’s transport ministry stated that there was injury to the highway on the bridge nearer to the Crimean Peninsula. There was no injury to the pillars, they stated. It didn’t say what induced the injury, reported Reuters.

The RBC-Ukraine information company reported that explosions have been heard on the bridge.

Serhiy Bratchuk, spokesperson for Ukraine’s Odesa navy administration, posted a photograph on his Telegram account of what appeared to indicate a part of the bridge damaged. It was not instantly clear whether or not that was associated to any assault.

The 19 km highway and rail bridge has been a delight infrastructure challenge of President Vladimir Putin, who drove a Mercedes throughout the bridge in 2022 after it was repaired following an explosion.

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(With inputs from Reuters)