The Crimea bridge was blown up, according to today’s announcement from Ukrainian authorities, igniting several fuel tanks on a train that was crossing the bridge.
Despite the war in Ukraine, Russia has consistently insisted that the bridge is safe. However, in the past, Moscow has threatened Kyiv with vengeance if Ukrainian forces assault this or other infrastructure in Crimea.
Oleg Morozov, a Russian lawmaker, was quoted by the news agency RIA Novosti as saying on Saturday that “this type of terrorist assaults would spread” if nothing is done.
This bridge is required for the transportation of military stationed in Ukraine as well as persons and cargo to the peninsula.
2018 saw the bridge’s opening. It crosses the Kerch Strait and, in 2014, came to represent annexation.
Russian soldiers have had to back from the front in various places since early September. It was compelled to leave the Kharkiv region in the northeast and retire to the Kherson region in particular.
President Putin ordered the mobilisation of hundreds of thousands of reservists, or civilians, at the end of September in an effort to halt this trend in the face of reverses to an ardent Ukrainian army that had been bolstered by Western weaponry supplies.
The only front where Moscow has an advantage is in the Donetsk region (east), close to the town of Bakhmut, which Russian soldiers have been attempting to seize since August.
The Crimean Bridge disaster that happened at the crack of dawn on Saturday has been valued by the Russian Federation of Insurers.
The federation stated that the anticipated cost of the damages was 500 million rubles (10 million dollars).
In a statement released today, the federation’s press office stated: “Our federation pegs the cost of the harm brought on by the crisis on the Crimean bridge at 200-500 million rubles. The federation is currently unaware of any insurance agreements pertaining to the Crimean Bridge’s infrastructure. The Crimean Bridge’s assets are typically not insured. . The state.
Russian legislators demand action following the bombing of the Crimean bridge and the subsequent setbacks.
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