The Crimean Bridge, a key and symbolic infrastructure linking Russia to the peninsula annexed in 2014 at the expense of Ukraine, reopened to road and rail traffic after being partially destroyed on Saturday by a huge explosion attributed by Moscow to a truck bomb .
“Rail traffic on the Crimean Bridge has been fully restored,” said Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khousnullin, without specifying the time. “All scheduled trains will pass in full,” he added. This recovery concerns both “passenger and freight trains”.
The Crimean authorities had announced in the afternoon that traffic had resumed for cars and buses on the bridge’s only road lane that remained intact. This was confirmed by Marat Khousnoulline, specifying that the second way would be operational again “in the near future” and that the conclusions of the observations carried out on Saturday on the damaged parts would be known this Sunday. Ferries will take over, especially for the crossing of heavy goods vehicles. “We do not foresee a shortage,” noted the Deputy Prime Minister.