❗️A video from surveillance cameras shows the moment the blast occurred on the Crimean bridge

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⚡️All trains to and from Crimea will be suspended temporarily, Russian railways say

⚡️Fire on train carrying diesel on Crimean bridge has been put out — Russian Emergency Ministry

❗️⛴ Kerch strait ferry line resumes operation, first ferry begins crossing, 3 more in line — Transport Ministry

❗️What is known so far about the explosion on the Crimean Bridge, which connects Crimean Peninsula and Krasnodar region:

▫️Russia's National Antiterrorism Committee (NAC) said on Saturday that a truck was blown up on the Crimean Bridge, which caused seven fuel tanks of a railway train to catch fire

▫️Two motorway sections of the bridge have partially collapsed. The arch over the land part of the bridge has not been damaged, as estimated by NAC

▫️Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a government commission to be formed to inquire into the emergency on the Crimean Bridge

▫️A criminal case had been opened after the truck's explosion on the Crimean Bridge, Russian Investigative Committee said

▫️Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that there are no forecasts about when the Crimean Bridge will be repaired

▫️All motor and rail traffic has been suspended on the bridge

▫️Russian railways said that the sale of train tickets to Crimea has been suspended because of the emergency on the bridge

▫️Ferry crossing in Kerch has resumed operation

⚡️Footage showing the emergency services extinguishing the fire after the blast on the Crimean Bridge

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Russian Railways take special control of cargo transportation to Crimea, company says

⚡️Moscow: Kiev regime's reaction to destruction of civilian infrastructure proves its terrorist nature

📌 Earlier, Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, actually admitted Ukraine's involvement in the explosion on the Crimean bridge, by tweeting that “Crimea, the bridge, the beginning. Everything illegal must be destroyed." Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense also reacted to the explosion on the bridge, rhetorically asking “what’s next in the line”.

❗️Crimea is fully supplied with fuel and food, there are no risks - Sergei Aksenov, head of Crimea

🇺🇸📹 Journalists tried to ask Joe Biden a question about Vladimir Putin, but the US President literally ran away from them 🤷‍♂️

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“A former colleague asked me to drop the coordinates of this house”: A policeman who handed over coordinates for a missile attack to Ukrainian troops has confessed to his crime after being caught in Kherson

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⚡According to preliminary data, three people died as a result of an explosion on the Crimean bridge - Russian Investigative Committe

❗️IAEA head says will visit Russia in near future, then return to Ukraine on issue of safety zone around Zaporozhye nuclear power plant

📹Footage of the combat work done by the Uragan MLRS during the special operation in Ukraine (Russian MoD video)

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💬Russian Foreign Ministry on the statement by the Estonian Foreign Ministry about the blast on the Crimean bridge: "Murder, sabotage, destruction: criminal logic has bound the NATO regimes."

Earlier, the Estonian Foreign Ministry said that the country "certainly welcomes this [the explosion] and congratulates the Ukrainian special forces that are probably behind this operation and considers it a positive thing that traffic has stopped," despite the fact that the bridge "is not physically destroyed."

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⚡Russian MoD: General of the Army Sergei Surovikin has been appointed commander of the Joint Group of Forces in the area of the special military operation

Russian MoD briefing:

▪️All attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kupyansk direction were successfully repelled. More than 100 Ukrainian servicemen, two tanks, five infantry fighting vehicles, and four other vehicles were destroyed. More than 110 Ukrainian servicemen of the 14th Mechanized Brigade and the 19th Terodefense Battalion were destroyed;

▪️More than 30 Ukrainian servicemen, three infantry fighting vehicles, and five pickup trucks were destroyed in the Krasniy Liman direction;

▪️More than 100 Ukrainian servicemen and 12 units of military equipment were destroyed in the areas of the settlements of Seversk, Novoe, and Yampolovka in the DPR;

▪️An attempt by Ukrainian forces to counterattack was repelled in the South-Donetsk direction. More than 90 Ukrainian servicemen, two tanks, eight armored fighting vehicles, and six other vehicles were destroyed;

▪️More than 160 Ukrainian troops were destroyed in the Zaporozhye direction;

▪️More than 240 Ukrainian military personnel, 12 tanks, 14 armored combat vehicles, eight other vehicles, and four artillery pieces were destroyed, 54 artillery units were hit in firing positions, while manpower and military equipment in 174 areas, four ammunition depots, as well as a Ukrainian MiG-29 aircraft were destroyed;

▪️Russian air defense systems destroyed 12 UAVs, including one Bayraktar-TB2;

▪️21 shells of the US-made HIMARS MLRS were destroyed in the air, as well as one Tochka-U ballistic missile

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❗️Crimea's head Aksenov: Vehicles have resumed movement across the Crimean Bridge, it is now open to cars and buses with a full inspection procedure