Russia closes Crimea bridge after official declares ‘emergency’

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The move came after explosions that officials blamed on Ukraine. Read more at straitstimes.com.

MOSCOW – Russia suspended road and rail traffic across a key bridge to Crimea after explosions that killed two people and officials blamed on Ukraine.

The Russia-installed chairman of the Crimean parliament, Vladimir Konstantinov, said Ukraine “attacked” the link, state-run RIA Novosti reported. Two people died and a teenage girl was injured in the incident, regional officials in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region said. While Russian officials were giving few details, the defence ministry reported on Sunday that seven drones and two underwater vehicles were destroyed in Crimea, accusing Ukraine of a “terrorist attack”.damaging one of its road spans and temporarily halting rail traffic that’s used to supply Russian forces in the peninsula and in southern Ukrainian areas facing a counteroffensive from Kyiv’s troops to reclaim the territories.

 

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