Today’s attack was with an underwater sea drone, said to be carrying 1,100 kg of TNT. Since it exploded at the base of the support structure, it’s difficult to say yet what long-term structural damage has been done. Russian bloggers claimed reports of cracks, but that has not been confirmed. The bridge was opened several hours after the explosion, then closed again for a few hours, then re-opened.
Source: New York Times
Ukraine said on Tuesday that it had struck the Crimean bridge for the third time since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, after spending months planting explosives on support structure beneath the water.
The extent of the damage was not immediately clear, but the Security Service of Ukraine, the intelligence agency known as the S.B.U, released a statement and a video that it said showed one of the detonations.
“Today, at 4:44 a.m., without any civilian casualties, the first explosive device was detonated,” the agency said in a statement. “The underwater support pillars were severely damaged at the seabed level — aided by the equivalent of 1,100 kg of TNT.”
Surveillance footage released by the agency and verified by The New York Times shows an explosion under the Kerch Strait Bridge, which connects Russia’s mainland and the Crimean peninsula. The attack appeared to target support features of the bridge.
