A massive fireball damaged a well-known Russian bridge Saturday that links the Crimean Peninsula and the Russian mainland, according to multiple reports.
The Kerch Strait Bridge, which runs for 12 miles, was rocked by an explosion of a truck early Saturday morning, Russia’s Investigative Committee said in a statement, perThe explosion “resulted in the ignition of seven fuel tanks of a train heading towards the Crimean Peninsula,” the statement said.
Multiple lanes of the bridge reportedly crashed into the Black Sea. Images show the entire bridge encapsulated by a large fireball.Neither Russia nor Ukraine took immediate responsibility for the explosion, though both sides hinted that it wasn't an accident. "Crimea, the bridge, the beginning. Everything illegal must be destroyed, everything stolen must be returned to Ukraine, everything occupied by Russia must be expelled," saidThe Kremlin’s spokesman, Dmitri S.
reports. Any disruption to the bridge could impact how smoothly the military operates in that region.The bridge was created as a symbol of Russia's annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula in 2014, per . The Russian president has often used the bridge as a political tool to demonstrate his claim to the region
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