The bridge was closed to traffic for the foreseeable future, with Russia scrambling to launch ferry services as an alternative, a move made difficult by stormy weather. Russian officials in Crimea, which Moscow seized from Ukraine in 2014, were quick to blame Kyiv. “Crimea, the bridge, the beginning,” he wrote on Twitter. Just hours before the explosion on the Crimean bridge, Russia fired missiles at several infrastructure targets and a hospital in Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv, according to local officials. Other road links with Crimea are available to Russia through occupied parts of southern Ukraine and the Donbas area in the east.

Source: Wall Street Journal October 08, 2022 14:20 UTC