Ukraine: New explosive towards the Crimean Bridge

Early on Tuesday morning, an underwater attack was carried out against one of the bronze’s large foundations, according to a mailing from the Ukrainian security service SBU. A difficult -to -verified movie clip that comes with the mailing shows a big bang in the water at a large bridge pillar and a picture shows destruction up on the bronze roadway.

« The operation lasted for several months. SBU agents mined the pillars on this illegal object, » SBU announces.

According to the security service The bridge was caused by critical injuries, but it is not clear how serious they became. A total of 1,100 kilos of explosives are said to have been used in the operation.

« Crimea is Ukraine, and all signs of occupation will be met with our hard answer, » Vasyl Maljuk, head of Ukraine’s security service, is quoted in a telegram post.

Traffic over the bridge was stopped for three hours during Tuesday morning, Russia announces without going into the cause, Reuters reports. According to SBU, no civilians have been injured in the attack.

The information comes after Ukraine on Sunday carried out it extensive the operation The « spider network » deep in Russia, which has been planned for over a year and a half.

Ukraine has directed attack Against the Crimean Bridge twice earlier, 2022 and 2023, with explosive charges which then destroyed large parts of its roadway.

Russia built the nearly 18 -kilometer bridge over the Kerjsundet after the annexation of the Crimean Peninsula in 2014. It was completed and opened in 2018. It runs between Crimea in the west and the Russian region of Krasnodar in the east.