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

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 automobile section of the Kerch Strait Bridge, said to be the longest bridge in Europe, was completed six months ahead of schedule. Putin touted it as an historic achievement and a dream that ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on May 15 officially unveiled a 19-kilometer-long road bridge linking the annexed Crimean Peninsula with Russian territories across the Kerch Strait. Construction ...

: Russian President Vladimir Putin and Transport Minister Roman Starovoit look out of a helicopter while flying over the site of the Kerch bridge in Crimea, 18 March 2016 ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday will mark the opening of the Kerch Strait bridge, a construction project that has become a metaphor for his 18-year rule. The 19-kilometer bridge, now ...

People attend a combined rally and concert marking the opening of a road section of the Kerch Strait (Crimean) Bridge, May 15, 2018, in Kerch, Russia. Malgavko Sergei/TASS via ZUMA Press/Newscom ...

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 ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has opened the country's newly built bridge to the annexed Crimean Peninsula, driving a truck across the span and drawing angry condemnation from Kyiv, the ...

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 ...

In an examination of Maxar satellite images by open-source intelligence agency Molfar, ... An explosion causes fire at the Kerch bridge in the Kerch Strait, Crimea on October 08, 2022.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday will mark the opening of the Kerch Strait bridge, a construction project that has become a metaphor for his 18-year rule. The 19-kilometer bridge, now ...