“He noted that the task of restoring barrier fences is paramount, and also instructed to immediately begin dismantling the collapsed section,” the government said in a statement.

Earlier, Khusnullin said that the first freight trains went along the Crimean bridge.

On the morning of October 8, a truck was blown up on the automobile part of the bridge, as a result of which two spans of the structure partially collapsed.

The President of Russia signed a decree on strengthening measures to protect the transport crossing through the Kerch Strait, the electric grid energy bridge and the main gas pipeline.

The authority to organize protection measures is vested in the FSB.