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BREAKING NEWS Ukraine attacks Putin's prized Kerch bridge to Crimea in daring underwater strike with TNT blasts leaving it ‘in a state of disrepair' days after drones blitzed nuke bomber fleet
Ukraine's SBU security service said on Tuesday it had hit the road and rail bridge linking Russia and the Crimean peninsula below the water level with explosives.
The SBU said in a statement on the Telegram app that it had used 1100 kilograms of explosives which were detonated early in the morning, damaging underwater pillars of the bridge, a key supply route for Russian forces in Ukraine.
Head of the SBU, Lieutenant General Vasyl Malyuk, said: 'We previously hit the Crimean Bridge twice in 2022 and 2023.
'So today we continued this tradition underwater. No illegal Russian facilities have a place on the territory of our state.
'Therefore, the Crimean Bridge is a completely legitimate target, especially considering that the enemy used it as a logistical artery to supply its troops.
Crimea is Ukraine, and any manifestations of occupation will receive our tough response,' Vasyl Malyuk noted.
Russian forced temporarily closed the bridge this morning, according to Ukrainian news outlet Ukrainska Pravda, but traffic on the bridge resumed after three hours.
No casulaties have been reported.
It comes after Ukrainian drones struck multiple military airbases in Russia on Sunday.
The attacks occurred in the Murmansk, Irkutsk, Ivanovo, Ryazan, and Amur regions.
