Subhechcha Ganguly 
After Ukraine reported an explosion nearby, a fire and blast caused the Kerch Bridge, which connects Crimea with Russia, to partially collapse on Saturday morning. Later, Russia closed its airports in the south of the nation.The Russian investigation committee added that “a truck was blown up” and that it had “opened a criminal case in connection with the incident on the Crimean crossing.”
According to early reports, a truck was blown up this morning on the roadway portion of the Crimean bridge from the Taman Peninsula, which led to the ignition of seven fuel tanks on a train moving toward the Crimea peninsula.The explosions occurred hours after Russia focused its ongoing invasion of Ukraine on regions it had forcibly annexed, and as the death toll from earlier missile strikes on residential complexes in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia reached 14.
After annexing Crimea in 2014, Russia now uses the bridge to transport military hardware into Ukraine. In response to the fire, the Ukrainian government’s official Twitter account tweeted: “Sick burn.” Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Zelensky, described the damage as a “beginning” but did not specifically attribute it to Ukraine. He tweeted, “Everything illegal must be destroyed, everything stolen must be given back to Ukraine, and everything under Russian occupation must be driven out.Dramatic video posted to social media shows the bridge on fire and with pieces falling into the water.
