Kerch bridge

Russian authorities reported on Saturday that a large blaze erupted on the only bridge linking mainland Russia to the occupied Crimean Peninsula.

Work to extinguish the blaze is underway," Oleg Kryuchko, an aide to the Russian occupation head of Crimea said via Telegram, according to TASS news agency. "Crimea, the bridge, the beginning. "According to preliminary information, a fuel storage tank is on fire ... It was built on his orders shortly after the Kremlin annexed Crimea in 2014 to support Moscow's claims to the territory. local time before the road partially collapsed. It is too early to speak about causes and consequences.

Vladimir Putin opened road section in 2018 and Moscow had threatened reprisals if it was attacked.

Some Russian naval forces appear also to have been discreetly redeployed as the war has inched ever closer. I hope he understands what the retaliatory target will be.” But the implied rebuff of the apparent attack is more significant than simply symbolic. An attack on the naval airbase at Saky in August, led Russian tourists to flee Crimea’s beaches en masse, jamming the bridge with miles-long tailbacks. And finally, thanks to your work and your talent, the miracle has happened.” “In different historical epochs, even under the tsar priests, people dreamed of building this bridge.

"The guided missile cruiser Moskva and the Kerch bridge - two notorious symbols of Russian power in Ukrainian Crimea - have gone down," tweeted Ukraine's ...

The road and railway bridges are vital links in Russia's supply chain. But the attacks on the Saky base and the bridge are all part of the same wider effort: to undermine Russia's ability to use Crimea as a launch pad for its war in southern Ukraine. Ukrainian officials are giving little away, happy to apply the same level of ambiguity that followed a mysterious attack on the Russian airbase in Crimea in August. Any number of theories are doing the rounds - from a Ukrainian special forces operation to the work of partisans in Crimea, a missile strike, or even a suicide bomb. Coming on the back of weeks of mostly good news from the battlefront, where Ukrainian forces continue to take back territory seized by Russia back in February and March, the sight of the crippled, burning bridge is a massive additional boost to morale. "The guided missile cruiser Moskva and the Kerch bridge - two notorious symbols of Russian power in Ukrainian Crimea - have gone down,"

A blast on the strategic road-and-rail bridge linking Russia and the Crimea peninsula brought down sections of road taking traffic in one direction, ...

In a video message Aksyonov, the Crimea governor, said he wanted to "assure Crimeans that the Republic of Crimea is fully provided with fuel and food. The Russian National Anti-Terrorism Committee said a freight truck had blown up on the bridge's roadway at 6:07 a.m. "We are not cut off from the mainland!" Since the start of the invasion on Feb. The images could not immediately be verified. Don't panic."

Part of the crossing, the sole bridge linking the Crimean Peninsula with Russia, collapsed into the sea.

[are scheduled to gather in Washington](https://meetings.imf.org/en/2022/Annual/Schedule) for annual meetings, which begin on Monday. [in eastern cities like Lyman](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/01/world/europe/lyman-ukraine-russia.html?action=click&pgtype=LegacyCollection&state=default&module=styln-russia-ukraine&variant=show®ion=MAIN_CONTENT_1&block=storyline_top_links_recirc), Ukraine is pushing farther into Russian-held territory [in the south](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/04/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war.html?action=click&pgtype=LegacyCollection&state=default&module=styln-russia-ukraine&variant=show®ion=MAIN_CONTENT_1&block=storyline_top_links_recirc), expanding its campaign as Moscow struggles to [mount a response](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/05/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war.html?action=click&pgtype=LegacyCollection&state=default&module=styln-russia-ukraine&variant=show®ion=MAIN_CONTENT_1&block=storyline_top_links_recirc)and [hold the line](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/03/world/europe/russia-disarray-ukraine.html?action=click&pgtype=LegacyCollection&state=default&module=styln-russia-ukraine&variant=show®ion=MAIN_CONTENT_1&block=storyline_top_links_recirc). said the emergency allocation, [which follows other aid previously designated](https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2022/03/09/pr2269-ukraine-imf-executive-board-approves-usd-billion-in-emergency-financing-support-to-ukraine), would help Ukraine with its “large and urgent fiscal and external financing needs.” Putin of Russia to annex the territory along with three other regions in a move that was internationally condemned. Twenty-one people who died during the Russian occupation of the area and had been buried in makeshift graves were identified and reburied in the town’s cemetery, he said. Zaporizhzhia, the largest nuclear plant in Europe, has been under the control of the Russian military since early March. The availability of fuel to power the generators has long been a concern. Putin decide to use a [tactical nuclear weapon](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/03/us/politics/russia-tactical-nuclear-weapons.html?action=click&pgtype=LegacyCollection&state=default&module=styln-russia-ukraine&variant=show®ion=MAIN_CONTENT_1&block=storyline_top_links_recirc). Ukrainian officials and some military analysts said the attacks appeared to signal heightened determination by the Russian military to use its advantage in long-range munitions to exact costs for Moscow’s losses. Putin of Russia [illegally annexed](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/30/world/europe/russian-strikes-ukraine.html?action=click&pgtype=LegacyCollection&state=default&module=styln-russia-ukraine&variant=show®ion=MAIN_CONTENT_1&block=storyline_top_links_recirc)four regions where fighting is raging. Putin of Russia, a pillar of his disputed claim to the Crimean Peninsula since the completion of the twin road spans in 2018. For a century, talks of building a bridge across the strait — which runs between two mountain ranges, creating a fierce wind tunnel — had failed to result in action.

The blast on the bridge occurred hours after explosions rocked the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, sending towering plumes of smoke into the sky and ...

The Association of Russia's tourist agencies estimated that about 50,000 tourists were in Crimea on vacation at the time of the blast. Dmytro Zhyvytskyi, the regional governor, said on Telegram that a 51-year-old civilian man had been killed. Russian missiles damaged more than 40 apartment buildings on Thursday in the Ukrainian-controlled city, which is nevertheless the official capital of a region Moscow moved to illegally annex last week. Irina Mezavtsova, a deputy head of the regional ministry for industrial policies, said there would be no restrictions on sales of consumer products. Sinehubov said Russia had deployed S-300s missiles in the strike. An advisor to Zelenskyy, Mykhailo Podolyak, tweeted: "Crimea, the bridge, the beginning. President" on the right. "And this is just the beginning. The $3.6 billion project is a tangible symbol of Moscow's claims on Crimea and has provided an essential link to the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014. Ukrainian officials have repeatedly threatened to strike the bridge and some lauded the attack, but Kyiv stopped short of claiming responsibility. The bridge has train and automobile sections. The Peninsula holds symbolic value for Russia and is key to sustaining its military operations in the south of Ukraine.

The bridge has been a longtime symbol of Russian President Vladimir Putin's claim to the Crimean Peninsula.

[CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/08/europe/crimea-bridge-explosion-intl-hnk/index.html). - The Kremlin’s spokesman, Dmitri S. - "Crimea, the bridge, the beginning. [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/08/europe/crimea-bridge-explosion-intl-hnk/index.html) reports. Images show the entire bridge encapsulated by a large fireball. - As a response to the explosion, Putin signed an order heightening security on the bridge late Saturday, the AP reports. [Zelensky: Ukrainian forces recaptured 200 square miles in a week](/2022/10/07/zelensky-ukraine-military-russia-invasion) [New York Times.](https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/10/08/world/russia-ukraine-war-news) [Kerch Strait Bridge](https://www.axios.com/2022/10/08/kerch-bridge-damage-ukraine-russia) that links Crimea to Russia surfaced online Saturday. [Zelensky: Ukrainian forces recaptured 200 square miles in a week](https://www.axios.com/2022/10/07/zelensky-ukraine-military-russia-invasion) [Zelensky pledges fair treatment for Ukrainians in reclaimed territory](https://www.axios.com/2022/10/04/ukraine-advance-zelensky-ukrainians-reclaimed-land-vow) [Biden: Putin could escalate "prospect of Armageddon" with nuclear weapons](https://www.axios.com/2022/10/07/biden-putin-russia-ukraine-armageddon) [Kherson region](https://www.axios.com/2022/10/07/zelensky-ukraine-military-russia-invasion), which is in the south. [NBC News.](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russia-ukraine-war-explosion-kherson-bridge-crimea-putin-birthday-rcna51324)

President Vladimir Putin's flagship bridge to Crimea was severely damaged in a blast that hit a fuel train and caused the partial collapse of the only road ...

A huge blast early Saturday has severely damaged the only bridge connecting annexed Crimea to the Russian mainland, causing parts of it to collapse.

Kyiv is successfully pushing ahead in its campaign to retake parts of southern and eastern Ukraine that Russia captured in the initial weeks of the war. According to Russia’s Investigative Committee, the owner of the truck is resident of the Krasnodar Krai, and investigative actions have been launched at his place of residence. The spokeswoman for the Russian Investigative committee, Svetlana Petrenko, said the committee “has opened a criminal case about the incident at the Crimean Bridge. For Russia, the bridge symbolizes the physical “reunification” of Crimea with the Russian mainland. The Russian Transport Ministry said the railway section of the bridge, vital for bring troops and equipment for the war effort, would be restored by Saturday evening. Russian officials said a fuel truck exploded, but two spans of the road crossing in the direction of Crimea appear to have collapsed.

Damage to the Crimea bridge is a major humiliation for the Russian leader. CRIMEA-RUSSIA-POLITICS-BRIDGE. Russian ...

He said that Ukraine “must be immersed in dark times,” and urged Russia to destroy bridges, dams, railways, thermal power plants and other infrastructure facilities in Ukraine. It is also a serious humiliation for Putin personally, having happened on the morning after his 70th birthday. According to international law, such deliberate destruction would be a war crime. and its Ukrainian proxy regime will move the red line further and further.” Even further,” Kyiv hasn’t claimed responsibility for the bridge explosion.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky made a cryptic comment that many took to be commenting on the clouds of smoke and fire from the explosion.

With fighting intensifying in southern Ukraine, the bridge was crucial for the Kremlin to access war supplies. No one has taken responsibility for the attack, although Ukraine has threatened to attack the bridge in the past. Spanning 12 miles, it symbolized Putin annexing the peninsula from Ukraine in 2014.

Saturday's explosion on the bridge over the Kerch Strait prompted gleeful messages from Ukrainian officials but no claim of responsibility. Russia did not ...

It said two spans of road bridge had partially collapsed, but that the arch spanning the channel through which ships travel between the Black Sea and Azov Sea was not damaged. The Russian National Anti-Terrorism Committee said a freight truck had blown up on the bridge's roadway at 6:07 a.m. Russian officials said three people had been killed, probably the occupants of a car travelling near a truck that blew up. It designated Air Force General Sergei Surovikin to take charge of the invasion effort. Russia's defence ministry said its forces in southern Ukraine could be "fully supplied" through existing land and sea routes. "The situation is manageable - it's unpleasant, but not fatal," Crimea's Russian governor, Sergei Aksyonov, told reporters.

President Vladimir Putin's flagship bridge to Crimea was severely damaged in a blast that hit a fuel train and caused the partial collapse of the only road ...

The bridge is critical for the Kremlin to resupply its forces in Crimea and in the southern Kherson region of Ukraine, where Russian troops are facing a Ukrainian counteroffensive. Flights to and from Crimea were suspended when Putin began the war in February. The blast took place a day after the Russian leader’s 70th birthday, with Moscow’s forces in retreat across parts of southern Ukraine in the eighth month of his invasion. Surveillance footage showed the moment of impact, with some vehicles apparently caught in the blast. Russian officials were quick to blame Ukraine; there’s been no official claim of responsibility so far, but Ukraine’s national postal service quickly announced a new stamp to commemorate the bridge explosion. Two sections of the road bridge fell into the waters below.

Transport capacity on the Kerch Bridge “will be seriously degraded,” UK Defense Ministry says.

Kyiv is now [asking](https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/05/ukraine-advances-air-defenses-putin-00060580) for more Western weapons, including air defense systems. [leading](https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/05/ukraine-advances-air-defenses-putin-00060580) a counteroffensive against Russia and regaining territory and towns held by Moscow. Despite Moscow’s message of business as usual, the U.K.’s Defense Ministry said that transport “capacity will be seriously degraded” on the bridge. “We urgently need more modern air and missile defense systems to save innocent lives. The initial report from Moscow’s inspection of the bridge is due later Sunday. Putin tightened security for the bridge and for energy infrastructure between Russia and Crimea.

(VIENNA) — Russian President Vladimir Putin is likely personally affected by the explosion on a crucial bridge linking Russia and the Ukrainian Crimean ...

[tweeted](https://twitter.com/mfa_russia/status/1578784788659544072?s=20&t=lsWHPGoBrFmND3aaKjAtUw) a short, undated video of traffic moving on the bridge with a caption signaling that transit operations were continuing as normal. Damage to the bridge is interpreted as a personal attack targeting Putin, with the span viewed as the Russian leader’s major, concrete manifestation of his stated claims to retake Ukraine. “I think it was also meant to have real operational effects.” [tweeted](https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1578687132612190208?s=20&t=_3E43_-_oI5gA3bhycbsHw) that “Israeli Mossad acknowledged today that they are no longer numbers one in the rating of world’s special services.” [Arkady Rotenberg](https://thehill.com/people/arkady-rotenberg/) [crimea peninsula](https://thehill.com/social-tags/crimea-peninsula/) [Kerch Bridge](https://thehill.com/social-tags/kerch-bridge/) [Russia](https://thehill.com/country/russia/) [Ukraine](https://thehill.com/country/ukraine/) [Vladimir Putin](https://thehill.com/people/vladimir-putin/) [International](https://thehill.com/policy/international/) [International](https://thehill.com/policy/international/) [Defense](https://thehill.com/policy/defense/) [International](https://thehill.com/policy/international/) [See All](https://thehill.com/policy/international/) “Absolute meanness. [See all Hill.TV](https://thehill.com/hilltv) [See all Video](https://thehill.com/video) [Defense](https://thehill.com/policy/defense/) [Administration](https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/) [Healthcare](https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/) [National Security](https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/) [See All](https://thehill.com) Absolute evil. [tweeted ](https://twitter.com/Podolyak_M/status/1578628414197485569?s=20&t=_3E43_-_oI5gA3bhycbsHw)“Crimea, the bridge, the beginning. [tweeted](https://twitter.com/TimothyDSnyder/status/1578726661222465536?s=20&t=x8oobE8f5wnBXQo7cdb3JQ) on Saturday that the bridge explosion “cripples Russian logistics and dissolves the major symbol of Putin’s power.” [Russian investigators said](https://thehill.com/policy/international/3679044-truck-blast-downs-part-of-crimean-bridge-to-russia-disrupting-key-connector/) the explosion occurred from a truck. [International](https://thehill.com/policy/international/) [tweeted](https://twitter.com/DefenceHQ/status/1578978756932571136?s=20&t=_3E43_-_oI5gA3bhycbsHw).

Driving the news: By Saturday night, some limited road and rail traffic had resumed on the Kerch Bridge. Russia's Ministry of Transport said on Sunday that all ...

faces the highest chance of "Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban missile crisis" after Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a [veiled nuclear threat](https://www.axios.com/2022/09/21/putin-announces-partial-military-mobilization-for-russian-citizens) last month. [Biden](https://www.axios.com/2022/10/07/biden-putin-russia-ukraine-armageddon) warned Thursday that the U.S. [stark "Armageddon" warning](https://www.axios.com/2022/10/07/biden-putin-russia-ukraine-armageddon), White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre [said](https://youtu.be/IC6Un1JMDZY) Friday. [New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/08/world/europe/ukraine-crimea-bridge-explosion.html). [Kerch Strait Bridge](https://www.axios.com/2022/10/08/kerch-bridge-damage-ukraine-russia) that links Crimea to Russia surfaced online Saturday. [Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russias-ria-state-agency-reports-fuel-tank-fire-kerch-bridge-crimea-2022-10-08/).

The Kerch Bridge, a key supply route for Russian forces, was hit by a blast on Saturday, killing three people.

Thousands of Russian troops have retreated from the area in recent days, leaving behind extensive destruction in villages and forests. So the answers should be sought in Russia,” he said. [key road and rail bridge](/news/2022/10/9/russian-divers-to-inspect-damage-to-vital-crimea-bridge-link) linking Russia with Crimea hours after it was partially destroyed by a truck explosion, and an [ investigation is under way](/news/2022/10/9/russian-divers-to-inspect-damage-to-vital-crimea-bridge-link) to find out who was behind the attack.

Any impediment to traffic on the bridge could affect Russia's ability to wage war in southern Ukraine, where Ukraine's forces have been fighting an ...

Peskov, referred to the episode as an “emergency” in a statement on Saturday. The strike set off a series of explosions that eventually caused the cruiser to sink, killing an unknown number of sailors, including possibly the ship’s captain. “It is another ratchet of the pressure on President Putin.” Without it, analysts said, the Russian military will be severely limited in its ability to bring fuel, equipment and ammunition to Russian units fighting in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, two of the four Ukrainian provinces that Mr. A small sedan and a tractor-trailer truck driving side by side appear at the epicenter of the blast. In video captured by a surveillance camera on the bridge, a huge fireball is seen, seeming to consume several vehicles. American officials said that they were not aware of the plan ahead of time and that they had admonished Ukraine over it. Any serious impediment to traffic on the bridge could have a profound effect on Russia’s ability to wage war in southern Ukraine, where Ukrainian forces have been fighting an increasingly effective counteroffensive. The explosion is emblematic of a Russian military in disarray. By Saturday evening, the railroad section of the bridge had undergone repairs and a train with 15 cars had successfully crossed the span, according to a Russian state news agency, Tass. Car traffic had also resumed on the undamaged side of the bridge, the head of Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, said in a post on Telegram. The official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of a government ban on discussing the blast, added that Ukraine’s intelligence services had orchestrated the explosion, using a bomb loaded onto a truck being driven across the bridge.

At least 17 people were killed in an overnight "missile attack" in the city of Zaporizhzhia, a local official said on Sunday, the second deadly strike there ...

Ukrainian President [Volodymyr Zelensky](https://www.france24.com/en/tag/volodymyr-zelensky/), for his part, was a little more subtle. [partially destroyed by an explosion](https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20221008-live-fire-breaks-out-on-bridge-linking-crimea-and-russia-causing-significant-damage). A Russian missile barrage killed at least 17 people in an overnight "missile attack" in the city of Zaporizhzhia in the second deadly strike there in three days. "We don't really have anything more to add to the reports about the explosion on the bridge. [Crimea](https://www.france24.com/en/tag/crimea/) after it was damaged by an explosion Moscow blamed on a truck bomb. Rail and road traffic resumed on Sunday on the Kerch bridge between Crimea and Russia after a blast resulting from what Russian authorities said was a truck bomb damaged part of the structure. [Volodymyr Zelensky](https://www.france24.com/en/tag/volodymyr-zelensky/) made no direct mention of it in his nightly address and officials made no claim of responsibility. [drones](https://www.france24.com/en/tag/drones/) to counter Russian firepower. [Vladimir Putin](https://www.france24.com/en/tag/vladimir-putin/) will chair a meeting with his Security Council on Monday, two days after a huge blast ripped through Russia's Crimea bridge, the Kremlin told local news agencies. I just don't have anything to contribute to that this morning," White House national security spokesman John Kirby told ABC's "This Week" program. [White House](https://www.france24.com/en/tag/white-house/) on Sunday declined to comment on an explosion that damaged Russia's road-and-rail bridge to Crimea but said it will continue to supply Ukraine with arms, and that Russian President [Vladimir Putin](https://www.france24.com/en/tag/vladimir-putin/) had started the war and could end it if he chose. Read our live blog for the latest developments in the war in Ukraine.

The attack on the crucial link between Russia and Crimea matters less for its tactical significance and more for what it says about the course of the war.

At the same time, Russian paranoia about the West, a combination of grievance and thwarted desires to restore an imperial state, has created an atmosphere in which measured policy is impossible. That would be the real inflection point, a great battle, and as Churchill also put it: “Great battles, won or lost, change the entire course of events, create new standards of values, new moods, new atmospheres, in armies and in nations, to which all must conform.” The impulse of General Surovikin will be to destroy civilians, power plants, and hospitals, because he cannot beat the Ukrainian army. It is only one more way in which Russian prospects will continue to darken during a winter of destruction and death in Eurasia. They have been open in their view that some generals should be not only cashiered but shot, a stance echoed by the head of the Russian propaganda outlet, RT, Margarita Simonyan. Surovikin—his face set in the menacing scowl of most Russian generals—will not be able to create a unified command organization overnight. The Russian military faces threats from a Ukrainian army that can strike in the east (Donbas), the south (Kherson), or even possibly the southeast (Melitopol) wherever it sees the chance. Yevgeny Prigozhin, the criminal head of the Wagner Group of mercenaries that does the Kremlin’s bidding, and Ramzan Kadyrov, the no-less-thuggish ruler of Chechnya, have created private armies. For the first time, the war in Ukraine has a single military commander, General Sergey Surovikin. Both could be understood as the result of poor decisions by military leaders who could be sacked and replaced. The retreat of Russian forces from Kyiv in the early spring could be awkwardly explained as an unreciprocated gesture of goodwill. Those pictures show a two-lane span dropped into the water, an adjacent pair of lanes still standing, and, on a parallel rail bridge, a train hauling tanker cars that are burning fiercely.

Russian news reports say President Vladimir Putin is calling the attack on the Kerch Bridge to Crimea a terrorist act carried out by Ukrainian special ...

IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi tweeted that the reconnection was “a temporary relief in a still-untenable situation.” The civilians, including children, were buried in single graves, while members of the military were buried in a 40-meter long trench, according to police. — The Ukrainian military said Sunday that fierce clashes were taking place around the cities of Bakhmut and Avdiivka in the eastern Donetsk region, where Russian forces have claimed some gains. “That’s why the mood is a bit gloomy.” Putin personally opened the Kerch Bridge in May 2018 by driving a truck across it as a symbol of Moscow’s claims on Crimea. “And the authors, perpetrators, and those who ordered it are the special services of Ukraine.” Again, merciless attacks on civilians, targeting residential buildings, in the middle of the night,” he wrote. Abbas Gallyamov, an independent Russian political analyst and a former speechwriter for Putin, said prior to his declaration that it was a terror attack, the Russian president had not responded forcefully enough to satisfy angry war hawks. Tetyana Lazunko, 73, and her husband, Oleksii, took shelter in the hallway of their top-floor apartment after hearing air raid sirens. Podolyak referred to missile strikes on the city of Zaporizhzhia overnight that brought down part of a large apartment building. In an adjacent apartment building, the missile barrage blew windows and doors out of their frames in a radius of hundreds of feet. No, there is only one state terrorist and the whole world knows who he is.”

The Russian president accused Ukrainian special services of carrying out an attack on the Kerch Bridge, a key supply line for Russian forces.

— The Ukrainian military said Sunday that fierce clashes were taking place around the cities of Bakhmut and Avdiivka in the eastern Donetsk region, where Russian forces have claimed some recent territorial gains. — In the devastated Ukrainian city of Lyman, which was recently recaptured after a months-long Russian occupation, Ukrainian national police said authorities have exhumed the first 20 bodies from a mass burial site. Putin personally opened the Kerch Bridge in May 2018 by driving a truck across it as a symbol of Moscow's claims on Crimea. "That's why the mood is a bit gloomy." Abbas Gallyamov, an independent Russian political analyst and a former speechwriter for Putin, said the Russian president, who formed a committee Saturday to investigate the bridge explosion, had not responded forcefully enough to satisfy angry war hawks. "I am left without an apartment at the end of my life." "And the authors, perpetrators, and those who ordered it are the special services of Ukraine." In a flash, the fourth-floor apartment he shared with his wife was gone. At least 19 people died in Russian missile strikes on apartment buildings in the city on Thursday. Tetyana Lazunko, 73, and her husband, Oleksii, took shelter in the hallway of their top-floor apartment after hearing air raid sirens. The six missiles used in Sunday's overnight attack were launched from Russian-occupied areas of the Zaporizhzhia region, the Ukrainian air force said. In an adjacent apartment building, the missile barrage blew windows and doors out of their frames in a radius of hundreds of feet.

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine — Russian news reports say President Vladimir Putin is calling the attack on the Kerch Bridge to Crimea a terrorist act carried out by ...

The six missiles used in Sunday’s overnight attack were launched from Russian-occupied areas of the Zaporizhzhia region, the Ukrainian air force said. Again, merciless attacks on civilians, targeting residential buildings, in the middle of the night,” he wrote. Bastrykin said the truck had been to Bulgaria, Georgia, Armenia, North Ossetia, Krasnodar (a region in southern Russia) and other places.

Russia President Vladimir Putin is calling the attack on the Kerch Bridge to Crimea a terrorist act carried out by Ukrainian special services.

IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi tweeted that the reconnection was “a temporary relief in a still-untenable situation.” — The Ukrainian military said Sunday that fierce clashes were taking place around the cities of Bakhmut and Avdiivka in the eastern Donetsk region, where Russian forces have claimed some gains. — In the devastated Ukrainian city of Lyman, which was recently recaptured after a months-long Russian occupation, Ukrainian national police said authorities have exhumed the first 20 bodies from a mass burial site. Putin personally opened the Kerch Bridge in May 2018 by driving a truck across it as a symbol of Moscow’s claims on Crimea. “That’s why the mood is a bit gloomy.” Abbas Gallyamov, an independent Russian political analyst and a former speechwriter for Putin, said prior to his declaration that it was a terror attack, the Russian president had not responded forcefully enough to satisfy angry war hawks. "And the authors, perpetrators, and those who ordered it are the special services of Ukraine.” In an adjacent apartment building, the missile barrage blew windows and doors out of their frames in a radius of hundreds of feet. Podolyak referred to missile strikes on the city of Zaporizhzhia overnight that brought down part of a large apartment building. Tetyana Lazunko, 73, and her husband, Oleksii, took shelter in the hallway of their top-floor apartment after hearing air raid sirens. At least 19 people died in Russian missile strikes on apartment buildings in the city on Thursday. Road and rail traffic on the bridge were temporarily halted, damaging a vital supply route for the Kremlin’s forces.

Russia President Vladimir Putin is calling the attack on the Kerch Bridge to Crimea a terrorist act carried out by Ukrainian special services.

IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi tweeted that the reconnection was “a temporary relief in a still-untenable situation.” The civilians, including children, were buried in single graves, while members of the military were buried in a 40-meter long trench, according to police. — The Ukrainian military said Sunday that fierce clashes were taking place around the cities of Bakhmut and Avdiivka in the eastern Donetsk region, where Russian forces have claimed some gains. “That’s why the mood is a bit gloomy.” Putin personally opened the Kerch Bridge in May 2018 by driving a truck across it as a symbol of Moscow’s claims on Crimea. “And the authors, perpetrators, and those who ordered it are the special services of Ukraine.” Abbas Gallyamov, an independent Russian political analyst and a former speechwriter for Putin, said prior to his declaration that it was a terror attack, the Russian president had not responded forcefully enough to satisfy angry war hawks. Again, merciless attacks on civilians, targeting residential buildings, in the middle of the night,” he wrote. Podolyak referred to missile strikes on the city of Zaporizhzhia overnight that brought down part of a large apartment building. Tetyana Lazunko, 73, and her husband, Oleksii, took shelter in the hallway of their top-floor apartment after hearing air raid sirens. In an adjacent apartment building, the missile barrage blew windows and doors out of their frames in a radius of hundreds of feet. Road and rail traffic on the bridge were temporarily halted, damaging a vital supply route for the Kremlin’s forces.