Crimea Bridge Hit by Explosion [View all]
Source: Newsweek
Ukraine's security service (SBU) revealed a new special operation once again hitting Russia's Kerch Bridge to Crimea, this time in an underwater attack that it said had left the structure "in disrepair". They published a video of the explosion.
In a post on Telegram, the SBU said its agents had mined the underwater supports of the bridge in an operation that had lasted several months, and detonated the first device at 4:44 a.m. local time on Tuesday morning.
The SBU said it had "badly damaged" those supports with the explosives, which had the blast equivalent of 1100 kilograms of TNT.
"In fact, the bridge is in disrepair," the SBU said, noting this is third time it has hit the strategically important crossing that connects Russia to the Crimean Peninsula.
Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/crimea-bridge-hit-explosion-2080254
This is currently breaking story, so media coverage is slim at the moment, but here's the Mail's ( *hack putt* ) version:
Ukraine's SBU security service said on Tuesday it had hit the road and rail bridge linking Russia and the Crimean peninsula below the water level with explosives, leaving it in a 'state of disrepair'.
The SBU said in a statement on the Telegram app that it had used 1100 kilograms of explosives which were detonated early in the morning, damaging underwater pillars of the bridge, a key supply route for Russian forces in Ukraine.
Footage online shows smoke billowing over the crucial link to the annexed peninsula following an explosion.
Head of the SBU, Lieutenant General Vasyl Malyuk, said: 'We previously hit the Crimean Bridge twice in 2022 and 2023.
'So today we continued this tradition underwater. No illegal Russian facilities have a place on the territory of our state.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14775649/Ukraine-Putin-Kerch-bridge-Crimea-attack.html
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