Russia says “no damage” to the Crimean Bridge after the Ukrainian attack

Moscow said on Wednesday that a Ukrainian attack on the deck connecting the Crimean Peninsula annexed to Russia caused “no damage”.

The SBU security service of Ukraine said on Tuesday that it had exploded a bomb on one of the underwater pillars of the bridge, publishing images of an explosion coming out of water and debris.

“There was indeed an explosion,” the journalists the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists.

“Nothing has been damaged. The bridge works,” he said.

Ukraine targeted the 19 km (12 mile) bridge several times since Russia launched its large -scale military invasion in February 2022.

It was seriously damaged in October 2022 when a bomb loaded on a truck exploded on the deck, reducing transport capacity and forcing Russia to undertake months of repairs.

Ukraine affirms that the road and rail link is used to move Russian troops and military equipment, which makes it a legitimate target.

Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula in 2014 at the start of the fighting between kyiv and the separatists supported by Russia in the East, following a pro-EU revolution in Ukraine.

The bridge of several billion dollars was opened in 2018 and is considered by Ukraine and Russia as a highly symbolic marker of the seizure of the peninsula by Moscow.