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"title": "2022_Crimean_Bridge_explosion",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Crimean_Bridge_explosion",
"summary": "On 8 October 2022, at 6:07 a.m., a fire broke out on the Crimean Bridge as a result of an explosion of a bomb loaded onto a truck, which occurred on the road bridge, on the westbound vehicle lanes running from Russia to Kerch in Russian-occupied Crimea. Two two-lane vehicular spans of the bridge collapsed into the water. Two adjacent eastbound lanes on a separate structure survived. The railway bridge was also significantly damaged by a railway tanker car that caught fire. Five people were killed, and the Investigative Committee of Russia launched an investigation.\nThe damage reduced the transport capacity of the bridge, which is being used to supply Russian troops in Crimea during the invasion of Ukraine. The explosion occurred the day after the 70th birthday of Russian President Vladimir Putin and one week after the announcement of the annexation of four Ukrainian regions by Russia. At the time, no-one claimed responsibility for the explosion and Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that the Ukrainian government \"did not order\" it. However, in July 2023, Ukraine's Deputy Minister of Defense Hanna Maliar acknowledged Ukraine had conducted the attack \"in order to break the logistics of the Russians.\" Soon after, the Ukrainian Security Service confirmed it was behind the attack.Russian officials and a \"senior Ukrainian official\" speaking to The New York Times said the explosion was from a bomb loaded onto a truck. The BBC claimed it was more likely caused by a maritime drone. The Russian Federal Security Service detained five Russian citizens and three people from Ukraine and Armenia accused of organising the attack. In August 2023, Vasyl Malyuk, head of the Security Service of Ukraine, gave an interview to The New Voice of Ukraine in which he detailed how a truck carrying explosives was used to cause the explosion.",
"content": [
{
"section_title": "Background",
"section_content": [
{
"sentence": "The Crimean Bridge is a pair of parallel bridges, one carrying a four-lane road and the other a double-track railway, spanning the Kerch Strait between Russia on the east side and Crimea in Ukraine on the west side",
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},
{
"sentence": "Construction began in February 2016, following the Russian occupation and annexation of the Crimean peninsula in 2014",
"refs": []
},
{
"sentence": "The Russian authorities called the construction of the bridge a \"historic mission\", one of the key tasks for the \"final unification of Crimea with Russia\"",
"refs": [
"https://www.bbc.com/russian/news-44120726"
]
},
{
"sentence": "In May 2018, the road bridge was opened to traffic, and in December 2019, the rail bridge became operational",
"refs": [
"https://www.bbc.com/ukrainian/features-russian-44126352"
]
},
{
"sentence": "During the 2022 Russian invasion, the bridge was used to supply the Russian Armed Forces in the southern theater of operations",
"refs": []
},
{
"sentence": "While other methods of supplying resources to Crimea exist, including ports, the bridge is an important part of the infrastructure",
"refs": [
"https://www.bbc.com/russian/news-63183013"
]
},
{
"sentence": "Ukrainian officials and military have repeatedly declared their intention to destroy the Crimean Bridge, considering it as a legitimate military target",
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},
{
"sentence": "Major General of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Dmytro Marchenko\u00a0 [uk] stated in June 2022 that the bridge would become \"target number one\" as soon as Ukraine had weapons to attack it",
"refs": [
"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/19/world/europe/kerch-strait-bridge-crimea.html",
"https://www.dw.com/ru/vzryv-na-krymskom-mostu-vozmozno-stal-rezultatom-diversii/a-63376818",
"https://tass.com/world/1465651"
]
},
{
"sentence": "In August 2022, Ukrainian presidential advisor Mykhailo Podolyak told The Guardian: \"It's an illegal construction and the main gateway to supply the Russian army in Crimea",
"refs": [
"https://istories.media/news/2022/10/08/na-krimskom-mostu-proizoshel-vzriv-zagorelis-tsisterni-i-provalilos-dorozhnoe-polotno/"
]
},
{
"sentence": "Such objects should be destroyed.\" In April 2022, Dmitry Medvedev, former President and Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia, said: \"One of the Ukrainian generals talked about the need to strike at the Crimean Bridge",
"refs": [
"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/16/creating-chaos-zelenskiys-adviser-outlines-ukraines-military-strategy"
]
},
{
"sentence": "I hope he understands what the retaliatory target will be.\"",
"refs": [
"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/08/impact-of-kerch-bridge-blast-will-be-felt-all-the-way-to-the-kremlin"
]
}
],
"subsections": []
},
{
"section_title": "Event",
"section_content": [
{
"sentence": "On 8 October 2022 at 6:07 a.m",
"refs": []
},
{
"sentence": "local time during low traffic, an explosion occurred on or near the westbound lanes of the road bridge, heading towards Kerch in Crimea, midway between the main arch span over the Kerch\u2013Yenikale shipping channel and Tuzla Island, within Crimean territorial waters",
"refs": [
"https://www.agents.media/vzorvan-krymskij-most-chto-izvestno/",
"https://theconversation.com/crimean-bridge-blast-experts-assess-the-damage-192161",
"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/09/kerch-bridge-russia-ukraine-war-crimea-putin"
]
},
{
"sentence": "[citation needed] As a result of the explosion, Kerch-bound spans of the roadway collapsed into the water",
"refs": []
},
{
"sentence": "In the construction of the bridge, up to four spans are connected to form a longer section, and it appears that the damage has principally been to one such section, with three of its spans collapsing into the water and the fourth remaining in place",
"refs": [
"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/09/kerch-bridge-russia-ukraine-war-crimea-putin",
"https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/08/europe/crimea-bridge-explosion-intl-hnk/index.html"
]
},
{
"sentence": "The press service of the Crimea Railway stated that at 6:05 their equipment showed an error on the railway tracks on the railway part of the bridge, and a fuel container wagon caught fire in the tail of the freight train",
"refs": [
"https://theconversation.com/crimean-bridge-blast-experts-assess-the-damage-192161",
"https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/how-the-crimean-bridge-explosion-caused-multiple-spans-to-collapse-11-10-2022/"
]
},
{
"sentence": "Wind from north blew flames and smoke towards the Black Sea",
"refs": [
"https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/08/europe/crimea-bridge-explosion-intl-hnk/index.html"
]
},
{
"sentence": "Traffic by road, rail and sea were stopped, with long queues forming on land and sea",
"refs": [
"https://meduza.io/feature/2022/10/08/vzryv-na-krymskom-mostu-dvizhenie-ostanovleno-chast-avtomobilnogo-mosta-obrushilas",
"https://thetimeshub.in/people-are-fleeing-en-masse-from-crimea-traffic-jam-on-the-bridge-exceeded-5-kilometers-video/54139/"
]
},
{
"sentence": "The explosion was not immediately reported by Russian authorities as an act of sabotage",
"refs": [
"https://www.perild.com/2022/10/08/due-to-the-emergency-on-the-crimean-bridge-a-traffic-jam-formed-on-the-black-and-azov-seas/"
]
},
{
"sentence": "Initially, two possible causes of the fire were announced: the explosion of a fuel container wagon on the railway part of the bridge and the explosion of an automotive vehicle, probably a truck, on the road part",
"refs": []
},
{
"sentence": "According to the National Anti-Terrorism Committee\u00a0 [ru] of the Russian Federation, a truck was blown up, which caused the fire of seven rail fuel containers",
"refs": []
},
{
"sentence": "Though no one claimed responsibility for the explosion, the Ukrainian media Ukrainska Pravda and UNIAN, citing their own sources, stated that it was a Security Service of Ukraine operation",
"refs": []
},
{
"sentence": "The New York Times similarly wrote that a \"senior Ukrainian official\" \"said that Ukraine\u2019s intelligence services had orchestrated the attack and that it involved a bomb loaded onto a truck that drove across the bridge.\" Russia claimed that a bomb exploded while being carried by a truck going full speed using an improvised explosive device",
"refs": [
"https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/10/8/7370891/",
"https://meduza.io/news/2022/10/08/ukrainskaya-pravda-so-ssylkoy-na-istochnik-soobschila-chto-vzryv-na-krymskom-mostu-operatsiya-sbu",
"https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/10/08/world/russia-ukraine-war-news"
]
},
{
"sentence": "With indications that an explosion directly damaged the road bridge and that its blast caused a fire on a train on the rail bridge, the presence of many sparks could indicate the use of thermite which burns hot enough to damage steel and ignite the flammable fuel in the train",
"refs": []
},
{
"sentence": "Later in the day the bridge reopened to light road traffic on one lane, with traffic alternating in each direction, and some rail traffic",
"refs": []
}
],
"subsections": []
},
{
"section_title": "Impact",
"section_content": [],
"subsections": [
{
"section_title": "Casualties",
"section_content": [
{
"sentence": "The explosion killed five people, including those in an adjacent car",
"refs": []
}
],
"subsections": []
},
{
"section_title": "Economic loss",
"section_content": [
{
"sentence": "Seven fuel tankers of a 59-wagon train destined for the Crimean Peninsula caught on fire due to the explosion",
"refs": []
},
{
"sentence": "In addition, with the closure of the bridge, it became more difficult for local residents to leave Crimea, with car queues five kilometres (3\u00a0mi) long, although other ways remained, including ports",
"refs": [
"https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russias-ria-state-agency-reports-fuel-tank-fire-kerch-bridge-crimea-2022-10-08/",
"https://thetimeshub.in/people-are-fleeing-en-masse-from-crimea-traffic-jam-on-the-bridge-exceeded-5-kilometers-video/54139/"
]
},
{
"sentence": "Over a hundred trucks waited on either side to use the small ferry, carrying 16 trucks at a time",
"refs": [
"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/08/impact-of-kerch-bridge-blast-will-be-felt-all-the-way-to-the-kremlin"
]
},
{
"sentence": "Marine traffic was also hindered, as dozens of ships waited on either side of the bridge",
"refs": [
"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/09/world/europe/russia-crimea-kerch-bridge-traffic.html"
]
},
{
"sentence": "Mikhail Razvozhayev, mayor of Sevastopol, initially imposed restrictions on the sale of groceries and forbade the sale of fuel in canisters but rescinded these measures for all of Crimea about an hour later, saying that supply lines were sufficient",
"refs": [
"https://www.perild.com/2022/10/08/due-to-the-emergency-on-the-crimean-bridge-a-traffic-jam-formed-on-the-black-and-azov-seas/",
"https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2022-10/ukraine-bruecke-explosion-krim-russland"
]
}
],
"subsections": []
},
{
"section_title": "Structural damage",
"section_content": [
{
"sentence": "Three spans of the roadway deck on the Kerch-bound side were damaged with two collapsed into the water",
"refs": []
},
{
"sentence": "In videos and satellite imagery, there was considerable discolouration of girders of the rail bridge",
"refs": [
"https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-10-08-22/h_4a34c1441b085a511d720a4d5e48a4b2"
]
},
{
"sentence": "Two experts on bridge safety and blast engineering consider it likely that the fuel fire weakened the girders that support the rail bridge",
"refs": [
"https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63189627",
"https://www.euronews.com/2022/10/08/ukraine-war-car-bomb-sparks-major-blaze-on-bridge-linking-russia-and-crimea"
]
},
{
"sentence": "The rail bridge supports a double-track railway, and Russia restarted traffic on the other rail track than the one containing the burned out fuel tankers almost immediately",
"refs": [
"https://theconversation.com/crimean-bridge-blast-experts-assess-the-damage-192161"
]
},
{
"sentence": "The Russian Ministry of Transport reported that on the following day all rail freight and long-distance passenger trains were running to schedule",
"refs": [
"https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-10-08-22/h_972e0c20567968a3f40b4b18cd53834e"
]
},
{
"sentence": "The full repair of the bridge has been ordered, to be completed by 1 July 2023, with the contract awarded to Nizhneangarsktransstroy",
"refs": []
},
{
"sentence": "On 9 November 2022, the UK Ministry of Defence released an intelligence update, saying: \"Russian efforts to repair the Crimean bridge continue but it is unlikely to be fully operational until at least September 2023.\" According to intelligence, the road bridge was closed on 8 November 2022 to allow the movement and installation of a replacement 64-metre space",
"refs": [
"https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63255611"
]
},
{
"sentence": "Three more spans will be required to replace the damaged sections",
"refs": []
},
{
"sentence": "\"Although Crimean officials have claimed these additional spans will be in place by 20 December, a briefing provided to President Putin added that works to the other carriageway would cause disruption to road traffic until March 2023.\"",
"refs": [
"https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/nov/09/russia-ukraine-war-live-reports-of-fierce-fighting-in-mykolaiv-region-zelenskiy-says-russians-face-extraordinary-losses-in-donetsk#top-of-blog"
]
}
],
"subsections": []
}
]
},
{
"section_title": "Reactions",
"section_content": [],
"subsections": [
{
"section_title": "Ukrainian",
"section_content": [
{
"sentence": "The Ukrainian government's official Twitter account tweeted \"sick burn\" in response to the fire, while Mykhailo Podolyak, a Ukrainian presidential advisor, called the damage the \"beginning\": \"Crimea, a bridge, the beginning",
"refs": []
},
{
"sentence": "Everything illegal must be destroyed, everything stolen must be returned to Ukraine, everything occupied by Russia must be expelled.\" [clarification needed]",
"refs": [
"https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63183404"
]
},
{
"sentence": "The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine compared the destruction of the Crimean Bridge to the sinking of the cruiser Moskva writing: \"The guided missile cruiser Moskva and the Kerch Bridge\u00a0\u2013 two notorious symbols of Russian power in Ukrainian Crimea\u00a0\u2013 have gone down",
"refs": []
},
{
"sentence": "What's next in line, Russkies?\"",
"refs": []
},
{
"sentence": "Director of Ukrposhta Ihor Smilianskyi announced the release of a new stamp set dedicated to the event",
"refs": []
},
{
"sentence": "There is also an artist's impression of the Crimean bridge explosion in Kyiv becoming a popular artwork",
"refs": [
"https://www.dsnews.ua/ukr/politics/krymskiy-most-minoborony-ukrainy-i-glava-ukrpochty-potrollili-rossiyan-08102022-467433"
]
},
{
"sentence": "Oleksiy Danilov, head of the National Security and Defence Council, posted a video of the bridge on social media, along with a video of Marilyn Monroe singing \"Happy Birthday, Mr",
"refs": []
},
{
"sentence": "President\" to US President John F",
"refs": []
},
{
"sentence": "Kennedy",
"refs": []
},
{
"sentence": "The explosion occurred a day after the 70th birthday of Russian President Vladimir Putin",
"refs": [
"https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russias-ria-state-agency-reports-fuel-tank-fire-kerch-bridge-crimea-2022-10-08/"
]
},
{
"sentence": "Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said during his nightly address: \"Today was not a bad day and mostly sunny on our state's territory",
"refs": []
},
{
"sentence": "Unfortunately, it was cloudy in Crimea",
"refs": []
},
{
"sentence": "Although it was also warm.\"",
"refs": [
"https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63189627"
]
}
],
"subsections": []
},
{
"section_title": "Russian",
"section_content": [
{
"sentence": "The Russian authorities of the Crimea accused the Ukrainian side",
"refs": []
},
{
"sentence": "The spokeswoman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Maria Zakharova, accused the \"Kyiv regime\" of terrorism, and a deputy of the State Duma, Andrey Gurulyov (United Russia), called on the commander-in-chief to \"strongly respond\"",
"refs": [
"https://meduza.io/feature/2022/10/08/vzryv-na-krymskom-mostu-dvizhenie-ostanovleno-chast-avtomobilnogo-mosta-obrushilas"
]
},
{
"sentence": "Sergey Aksyonov, the Russian appointed head of Crimea, has indicated that they have enough food and fuel saying: \"The situation is manageable\u2014it's unpleasant, but not fatal\"",
"refs": []
},
{
"sentence": "He also expressed a desire for revenge",
"refs": []
},
{
"sentence": "On 9 October, Putin stated: \"There is no doubt",
"refs": []
},
{
"sentence": "This is an act of terrorism aimed at destroying critically important civilian infrastructure\u2026 This was devised, carried out and ordered by the Ukrainian special services\"",
"refs": []
},
{
"sentence": "Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Solovyov urged retaliatory strikes across all Ukraine targeting \"bridges, dams, railways, thermal power plants and other infrastructure facilities\"",
"refs": []
}
],
"subsections": []
},
{
"section_title": "International",
"section_content": [
{
"sentence": "The foreign minister of Estonia, Urmas Reinsalu, welcomed the explosion and suggested that Ukrainian special forces were behind it, recalling that the Ukrainian authorities had long called the Crimean Bridge a possible target for a strike",
"refs": []
},
{
"sentence": "Member of the European Parliament from Poland, Robert Biedro\u0144 (New Left) said: \"A balm for the heart, especially since yesterday was Putin's birthday",
"refs": []
},
{
"sentence": "It's good that Putin received such a gift",
"refs": []
},
{
"sentence": "I hope he gets more",
"refs": []
},
{
"sentence": "Ukrainians are destroying Russia's illegal infrastructure [in the occupied Crimea]\"",
"refs": []
}
],
"subsections": []
}
]
},
{
"section_title": "Aftermath",
"section_content": [
{
"sentence": "The Ministry of Transport of Russia announced that the ferry service across the Kerch Strait, which operated before the construction of the Crimean bridge, was being re-launched",
"refs": []
},
{
"sentence": "The Crimean Bridge is an important part of the transport connection between Russia and Crimea for the southern theater of operations of the Russo-Ukrainian War",
"refs": []
},
{
"sentence": "The New York Times reported that the damage would create temporary logistical hurdles for Russian military movements, but heavy military equipment could be transported by the railway bridge",
"refs": []
},
{
"sentence": "On 8 October, the Russian foreign ministry published a video showing that the bridge was partially reopened to light vehicles",
"refs": []
},
{
"sentence": "Trucks had to take the ferry, while trains had resumed, according to Russian state media",
"refs": [
"https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63183404"
]
},
{
"sentence": "A week later, hundreds of trucks were waiting three to four days to use the ferry",
"refs": [
"https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63183404",
"https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/08/europe/crimea-bridge-putin-ukraine-analysis-intl/index.html"
]
},
{
"sentence": "Putin ordered the security of the bridge to be placed under the control of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB)",
"refs": []
},
{
"sentence": "The Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Marat Khusnullin said that the damaged portions of the bridge would be taken down and repairs were to commence immediately",
"refs": []
},
{
"sentence": "On 9 October divers inspected the bridge structure for any underwater damage",
"refs": []
},
{
"sentence": "The Russian government ordered the repairs to be completed by July 2023",
"refs": [
"https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63189627"
]
},
{
"sentence": "The road bridge was fully re-opened on 23 February 2023, according to an announcement from Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin",
"refs": []
},
{
"sentence": "On 5 May the deputy prime minister also announced that the rail bridge had been fully reopened",
"refs": [
"https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/02/23/russia-fully-reopens-crimea-bridge-to-cars-on-eve-of-anniversary-a80319"
]
}
],
"subsections": [
{
"section_title": "Effect on Russian forces",
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{
"sentence": "Russian forces have had their logistics hindered by the blast on the bridge",
"refs": []
},
{
"sentence": "The UK Ministry of Defence said that transport \"capacity [would] be seriously degraded\" over the bridge",
"refs": []
},
{
"sentence": "Repairs started on the evening of 8 October, with car and rail traffic resuming almost immediately",
"refs": []
},
{
"sentence": "Trucks used ferries because one section of their lane was completely destroyed",
"refs": []
},
{
"sentence": "The Russian reliance on rail to move military equipment means that truck traffic is not the major concern",
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},
{
"sentence": "There is also a land corridor along the coast of southern Ukraine, although this is at higher risk of attack",
"refs": []
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