: Russian President Vladimir Putin and Transport Minister Roman Starovoit look out of a helicopter while flying over the site ...

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia presided over the bridge’s opening, personally driving a truck across the link between Russia and Crimea — land seized from Ukraine in 2014.

The incident follows a series of Ukrainian attacks on the Crimean Bridge. On June 3, Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) ...

On May 15, 2018, Russian President Vladimir Putin opened the Kerch Strait Bridge, a large connection between Russia's Krasnodar region and Crimea.

MOSCOW—Russia’s Kerch Strait Bridge has been the economic and military lifeblood of its occupying force on the Crimean Peninsula since its opening in 2018, and more recently a vital conduit ...

Ukraine's SBU security service said on Tuesday that it had hit the road and rail bridge linking Russia and the Crimean peninsula below the water level with explosives.

Ferries had operated across the Kerch Strait long before the bridge opened in 2018. On the other side, more than 170 trucks were waiting to cross from Russia into Crimea, the state-run news agency ...

Oleg Ignatov from the International Crisis Group told Newsweek this week's incidents delivered the worst setback for Putin for 2025 in terms of military damage and the impact on public morale.

In 2018, Putin symbolically drove a truck across the Kerch Bridge to mark its opening, which was greeted with great fanfare on Russian state TV. CNN’s Anna Chernova, Hannah Ritchie and Uliana ...

The Crimean Bridge, also known as the Kerch Bridge, is a 12-mile, $3.7 billion infrastructure project with two parallel tracks: one four-lane road for traffic and a two-lane rail line.

Putin celebrated the opening of the nearly $4 billion bridge in 2018 by driving a dump truck across a 12-mile section even ... “I don’t think the attack on the Kerch bridge was just meant to ...