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Ukrainian security service SBU said on Tuesday it hit a bridge connecting Russia with the occupied Crimea with the bridge that has been planted in water.
“Ukrainian security services have implemented a new unique special operation, and for the third time they attacked the Crimean Bridge. This time they are underwater!” SBU wrote on Telegram.
The operation comes after the SBU launched a bold air raid on Sunday against a fleet of Russian nuclear-responsive strategic bombers.
The SBU said the agent mined the jetty at Crimea Bridge on the road and rail, also known as the Kerch Bridge, and exploded the first explosives at 4:444am on Tuesday. He added that the entire operation took several months.
The agency said it used 1,100 kilograms of explosives that had “severely damaged” the underwater columns supporting the bridge.
Russian officials did not immediately respond to Ukraine’s claims. Earlier on Tuesday, the official bridge operator telegram account announced that traffic on the bridge had been temporarily suspended. He said normal traffic had resumed by 9am local time.
The 12-mile bridge, built following the annexation of Russia’s Crimea in 2014, was a key supply line for Moscow’s war effort in Ukraine and a personal project by Ukrainian President Vladimir Putin, embodying his purpose of linking the Ukrainian Peninsula to Russia.
The attack on Tuesday marks the third time Ukraine has targeted the bridge since the full-scale invasion of Moscow in 2022. That October, a fuel truck exploded on the bridge, causing some of it to be burned in flames. In July 2023, SBU said it used an experimental sea drone to blow up parts of the bridge. In both cases, Russia moved quickly to repair the damaged section.
“God loves the Trinity, and the SBU always watches things to the end and never did the same thing twice. We previously attacked the Crimean Bridge twice in 2022 and 2023. So we continued this tradition today.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
