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  • War A strong explosion destroys part of the iconic bridge in Crimea

  • Infrastructure The Crimean Bridge: Putin's 'jewel' threatened by Ukraine

An explosion early this Saturday caused significant damage to the

strategic

Crimean bridge, built by Russia after annexing the Ukrainian peninsula.

Security

camera footage

shows a huge

explosion

overnight, which appears to have occurred as a truck passed by.

Other images show the railway line on fire and a collapsed stretch of highway.

"

Today at 06:07

(05:07, peninsular time) on the road part of the Crimean bridge (...) there was a

car bomb

detonation , which caused the

fire of seven railway tankers

that were going to Crimea ", indicated the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee, quoted by local agencies.

The explosion caused the

collapse of two sections of the automobile part

of the bridge, in which 1.3 kilometers of railway tracks were also damaged.

This event is a new setback for Russia, which in recent weeks has suffered a series of military setbacks on the front that caused discontent among the Russian elite.

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