The network has reported, that in the early morning 8 October in the Kerch region, local residents heard an explosion. It is reported that, that there was an explosion near the railway line, leading in the direction of the Crimean bridge.
And reported that, that the explosion started a fire.
After some time, footage of a fire on the Crimean bridge itself began to circulate on the network.. In the pictures you can see fire and smoke at one of the sections of a large infrastructure facility. Locals online:
Burning Crimean bridge. Just blew.
At the moment, the causes of the explosion and fire are not reported.. There is also no data on the preliminary amount of damage and the volume, how what happened can affect the capacity of the bridge across the Kerch Strait.
Recall, that earlier Ukrainian officials openly called the Crimean bridge one of the priority targets. There have been statements of this kind: If there was a suitable weapon, then they would have hit the bridge long ago. At the same time, the United States recently announced, as if they would not supply Kyiv with long-range ATACMS missiles.
On 7:20 Moscow time there were messages about, that a fuel tank caught fire on the bridge. The cause of the fire has not been reported.. Traffic on the Crimean bridge has been suspended for the time being.
