Limited road traffic resumed on Saturday around 10 hours after the blast, while freight, passenger trains were running according to schedule on Sunday, says Russia’s transportation ministry
over the Kerch Strait, a key supply route for Moscow’s forces in southern Ukraine, had prompted gleeful messages from Ukrainian officials on Saturday but no claim of responsibility.
The damage to the bridge, which had been an imposing symbol of Russia’s annexation of the Crimean peninsula, came amid battlefield defeats for Russia, and could further cloud Kremlin reassurances that the conflict is going to plan. Russia seized Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 and the 19-km bridge linking the region to its transport network was opened with great fanfare four years later by Putin.
Russia’s transport ministry said freight trains and long-distance passenger trains across the bridge were running according to schedule on Sunday. Limited road traffic resumed on Saturday around 10 hours after the blast.
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