Crimea’s Kerch bridge targeted in second attack

The Kerch bridge, Russia’s only road link to Crimea, has been targeted once again in what seems to have been a drone attack. The damage appears to be extensive may take weeks, if not months, to repair. The Russian-installed head of the Crimean parliament, Vladimir Konstatinov, has blamed the ‘terrorist regime in Kyiv’ for a ‘new crime’ – but in Kyiv, it will be seen as an audacious attack on a legitimate military target. This attack underlines the vulnerability of Russia’s most important assets to a new wave of Ukrainian drones.

Ukrainian media is reporting that Kyiv’s navy and security services were behind the explosions, and that drones were used to blow up the bridge. The newspaper RBK-Ukraine quotes an unnamed source in Ukraine’s security services who said, ‘The bridge was attacked with surface drones. It was difficult to reach the bridge, but in the end it was possible.