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Published on: VG

October 8, 2022

Crimea. The Kerch Bridge, the only bridge connecting the peninsula to Russia, explodes. The asphalt road partially collapses into the sea, and the railway is also heavily damaged: a train loaded with hydrocarbons was passing through, which ignited for hours. The bridge, the longest in Europe, had been built by the Russians a few years earlier after the illegal annexation of Crimea to Russia.