Russia’s Transport Ministry said the Crimean bridge had suffered damage to its spans and was being inspected by authorities. “There is damage to the road and bridge spans in Crimea,” the ministry said in Telegram.
It is the main bridge in Crimea that connects the peninsula annexed to Russia. According to reports, the structure was hit by two attacks on Monday (17).
The governor of Krasnodar, Russia, Veniamin Kondratiev, said on Telegram that a crisis center was formed to coordinate emergency services and rescue people stuck in traffic in the vicinity of the bridge.
Two attacks would have been carried out on the bridge around 3 am (local time), damaging part of the structure, according to the Gray Zone channel, pro-Wagner Group, on Telegram.
Explosions were heard at around 3:04 am and 3:20 am local time, Gray Zone and Crimean blogger TalipoV Online Z said on Telegram.
A CNN cannot verify the reports. A CNN contacted the Moscow-appointed head of Crimea Sergey Aksenov.
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Videos posted on Telegram by Russian news channel Baza, Gray Zone and other Crimean media appeared to show that part of the bridge had collapsed and a vehicle was damaged.
According to initial reports, at least two people were killed and another injured, according to Baza’s Telegram post.
Russian state media reported on Monday that there had been an “emergency incident” that disrupted traffic, but there was no official confirmation of recent attacks on the bridge.
Emergency teams and police were dispatched to the scene, Aksenov said this morning.
Russian-backed official Elena Elekchyan said Crimea is well-supplied with fuel, food and industrial goods and that local warehouses have all the necessary supplies, Aksyenov’s adviser Oleg Kryuchkov reported on Telegram also on Monday. .
Source: CNN Brasil
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