Zelensky Boasts of Blowing Up Russian Bridge to Crimea: ‘World War 3 Is Coming’

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Zelensky admits to blowing up Russian bridge to Crimea

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that an explosion involving a truck on Saturday caused a fire and destroyed a large section of a bridge linking Russia and Crimea. The bridge is a key supply route for Russian troops in southern Ukraine.

“Crimea, the bridge, the beginning. Everything illegal must be destroyed, everything stolen must be returned to Ukraine, everything occupied by Russia must be expelled,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s aide, Mikhail Podoliak, wrote on Twitter following the blast.

Infowars.com reports: A spokesperson from the Russian Highways State Company (Avtodor) told the TASS news agency that the movement of vehicles across the Crimean Bridge has been temporarily suspended, adding at the time that “personnel of the Russian emergencies ministry and the road service are working on the site to contain the blaze.” The fire has since been extinguished.

Russian President Vladimir Putin was informed about the explosion and he ordered the creation of a government panel to deal with the emergency.

While the bridge undergoes repair, a ferry service will be provided later on Saturday. Crimea’s Head Sergey Aksyonov said on Telegram, per TASS“A ferry service is ready to be launched, it will start operating later today. We will announce a timetable later.”

The Crimean Peninsula is key to sustaining Russia’s military operations in the south. If the bridge is made inoperable, it would make it significantly more challenging to ferry supplies to the peninsula. While Russia seized the areas north of Crimea early during the invasion and built a land corridor to it along the Sea of Azov, Ukraine is pressing a counteroffensive to reclaim them.

The explosion on the Crimean Bridge took place hours after multiple explosions early Saturday hit the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, which triggered a series of secondary explosions. The city’s mayor, Ihor Terekhov, said that the series of explosions were due to missile strikes aimed at the center of the city, which caused fires at one of Kharkiv’s medical institutions, as well as a nonresidential building. No reports of casualties were noted.

Bridge Explosion Is the ‘Beginning’: Ukraine Official

While no one has yet to explicitly claim public responsibility for the attack, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s aide, Mikhail Podoliak, posted on Twitter saying the explosion is “the beginning.”

“Crimea, the bridge, the beginning. Everything illegal must be destroyed, everything stolen must be returned to Ukraine, everything occupied by Russia must be expelled,” he wrote in English.

Podoliak previously in August threatened the bridge, telling The Guardian that the bridge is “an illegal construction and the main gateway to supply the Russian army in Crimea” and that “such objects should be destroyed.”

Zelenskyy and other Ukrainian officials have also previously stated that Ukraine will use force to retake Crimea.

Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 after a vast majority of people in Crimea had voted in a referendum in March 2014 to reunite with Russia and secede from Ukraine. The vote took place after anti-Russia, pro-E.U. factions overthrew then-Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych’s government, which wasn’t against Russia, in an armed coup in February 2014.

The referendum was condemned by the United States and the European Union, with the latter saying in a statement (pdf) that the poll was “illegal and illegitimate.” Both the United States and the E.U. issued sanctions in response to the vote.

The Crimean Bridge, a $3.69 billion (230 billion rubles) project, was constructed following the annexation of Crimea. Russia opened the first part of the span to car traffic in May 2018. The parallel bridge for rail traffic opened the following year. Before the bridge’s existence, the Crimean Peninsula could only be reached from Russia by sea or air.

It was Russia’s only land link to the peninsula until Russian forces later seized more Ukrainian territory on the northern end of the Sea of Azov in heavy fighting, particularly around the city of Mariupol, earlier in 2022.

10 Comments

  1. See why they got the bolsheviks to create pidgin Russian and call it Ukraine? That’s how they deceive the world

    • It’s not what it seems. Nothing is. Americas the one being set up whilst being deceived into thinking they’re doing the setting up playing the innocent . It’s tricky to understand unroll you realize how perverse they really are In a way they like to give people enough rope to hang themselves In a way. It’s kind of like how God gave the 10 commandments via mosaic law and rhem would say, now I 2ant you to go and kill that tribe over there, and steal their women who are sexy and butcher all their young men and boys and take all their sheep and lambs and wealth. And they’d go OK them and run off and do it They never would say Hey excuse me but didn’t you just command is not to ever do any of those things? It’s sort of like that. Do them he would have to drown the whole lot of them. Revenge is Mine Sayeth the Lord Keep MY COMMANDMENTS. But people are dumb and greedy and selfish and thoughtless and sneaky and dishonest And that’s their good points.

  2. They all of them know perfectly well they’re lying They all stayed at Livadia, the ROMANOFFS holiday home on the crime an Coast, all the Russians had their holiday homes there, when they signed the docs after they had the ROMANOFFS murdered so they could enslave Russia. They know today Russias submarine seaport to the South is in Crimea. They just lie about everything Always have Always. You CANNOT believe ANYTHING they stick on your face, only what they try to hide.

  3. Nothing Russia builds no matter how beautiful or useful can’t be blown down or burned down by Washington. Take a look.. when was the last time Washington built anything like the Crimea straight bridge? Washington and of course London are the epicenters and source of most all conflict and death. Duck and cover, brothers and sisters.

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