The damage to the roadway appeared to be severe, with westbound lanes crippled in at least two places. 28 left the capital of the Republic of Crimea on schedule at 17:10 and has already passed through the bridge,” the statement reads.īut trucks were being asked to take ferries across the strait, state media reported. It became the first train to pass through the bridge after the emergency. 28 departing from Simferopol to Moscow passed through the Crimean bridge. The first passenger train resumed travel across the bridge on Saturday evening, traveling from the Crimean peninsula to Krasnodar Krai in southern Russia, Russia’s Ministry of Transport said in a statement late Saturday. Russian officials said a limited amount of car traffic had resumed on undamaged sections of the bridge’s roadways by Saturday evening and that train services were resuming on the bridge’s railways. The long-term effects on the use of the bridge weren’t immediately clear. His appointment is the latest promotion in a military career that began in 1983 but has also led him to be sanctioned this year by the European Union. He has commanded several motorized rifle divisions and was instrumental in Russia’s operations in Syria, and while there, was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation. The new commander, General Sergey Surovikin, first saw service in Afghanistan before commanding a unit in the second Chechen war. Putin ordered a “government commission” to examine the Kerch bridge “emergency” in Crimea, Russian state media TASS reported.Īlso on Saturday, the Russian Defense Ministry announced the appointment of a new commander for what it calls its special military operation in Ukraine, according to Russian state media. A subsequent fire engulfed a train of fuel tanks on a separate, adjacent rail portion of the bridge.
Russian officials said a truck exploded, causing Crimea-bound sections of the bridge’s roadway to fall.
The exact cause of the blast at Europe’s longest bridge is yet to be confirmed.
At least three people were killed in the explosion, Russian officials said, citing preliminary information. The blast collapsed part of the roadway on the Kerch Strait road-and-rail bridge – opened by Putin himself in 2018 – images and video from the scene showed. In a major blow for Russian President Vladimir Putin, a huge explosion early Saturday severely damaged the only bridge connecting the annexed Crimean Peninsula with the Russian mainland, crimping a key supply route for Moscow’s faltering war in Ukraine.
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