After the attack, the images. space technology company maxar released several satellite images of the Kerch bridge, just hours after the structure came under attack on Monday, July 17, 2023. According to a source within the Ukrainian security services on AFP, it is the Ukrainian special services and the Navy. attacked the Crimean bridge with “naval drones”.
In one of these images, we see part of the road damaged. This road section of the structure is used in particular to transport military equipment to the Russian army fighting in Ukraine.
On Telegram, the public television channel Crimea-24 published a video of the bridge showing a partially collapsed part of its stretch of road.
“Any illegal structure used to deliver Russian instruments of mass murder is necessarily short-lived… whatever the reasons for the destruction,” an adviser to the Ukrainian presidency, Mykhailo Podoliak, commented on Twitter.
Towards a Russian “answer”
The Russian governor of the annexed Crimea, Sergei Aksionov, had initially mentioned on Telegram an “emergency” that had required traffic on the bridge to stop, the Russian Transport Ministry specifying for its part that the road had been “damaged “.
Early Monday morning, Russian President Vladimir Putin denounced a “terrorist act” and promised “a response.”
“Since this is the second terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge, I am waiting for concrete proposals to improve the security of this important and strategic transport infrastructure,” the Kremlin chief said during a televised government meeting.
If two people died and a girl was injured according to the Russian authorities, the material damage is much less important than during the first attack on this bridge, which had already been targeted in October 2022 by a vehicle bomb.
Source: BFM TV
