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Omaha Steve

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Thu Nov 27, 2025, 07:47 AM Yesterday

Russia convicts and hands life sentences to 8 people over attack on a key bridge to Crimea

Source: AP

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Updated 5:00 AM CST, November 27, 2025
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A court in Russia on Thursday convicted eight people on terrorism charges over an attack on a bridge linking Russia to Moscow-annexed Crimea that is a key supply route for Kremlin forces in the war with Ukraine.

The court sentenced all of the defendants to life in prison.

The October 2022 attack on the bridge came when a truck bomb blew up two of its sections and required months of repairs. The blast killed the truck driver and four other people in a car nearby. Moscow decried the attack as an act of terrorism and retaliated by bombarding Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure, targeting the country’s power grid over the winter.

The Ukrainian Security Service, known as the SBU, claimed responsibility for the attack.



Read more: https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-crimea-bridge-bombing-514e799607e6ed0d6603deb741f6710b

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Russia convicts and hands life sentences to 8 people over attack on a key bridge to Crimea (Original Post) Omaha Steve Yesterday OP
Prison in Russia is probably more like a death sentence. C Moon Yesterday #1
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