Al-Madina News: On Saturday, Russian media claimed that a truck bomb was to blame for the fire that started on the Crimean Bridge.
The Russian National Anti-Terrorism Committee was quoted by Russian media as saying that a truck was detonated on the “Kerch” bridge at daybreak on Saturday, igniting several fuel tanks on a train that was crossing the bridge.
The Crimean Railways Authority said, for its part, that a fire in a fuel tank over the Crimean bridge did not result in any injuries.
Local Russian official Oleg Kryuchkov reportedly told RIA Novosti and TASS news agency that a petroleum storage tank thought to have caught fire and that traffic had stopped on the bridge.
Following its 2014 annexation of Crimea from Ukraine, Russia constructed a pair of land bridges and railroads that make up the crossing.
After a succession of secondary explosions and smoke plumes into the sky early on Saturday morning in Kharkiv, eastern Ukraine, the fire broke out hours later.
Ihor Terekhov, the mayor of Kharkiv, stated on Telegram that missile strikes in the city centre were the cause of the early morning blasts.
Terekhov claimed that the explosions started fires in a non-residential structure and one of the city’s medical facilities.
Russia releases information on what transpired, including the causes of the Crimean bridge fire.
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