Satellite images of damaged Crimean Bridge released

KATERYNA TYSHCHENKO — SATURDAY, 8 OCTOBER 2022, 20:43

Satellite images have been released showing the damage to the Crimean Bridge after the explosion on Saturday, 8 October.

Source: PlanetScope images posted by Planet у Twitter, journalist Christopher Miller on Twitter

Quote: "This pair of PlanetScope images, captured just one day apart on October 7 and 8, 2022, shows the damaged Kerch Strait Bridge following a major explosion today. This is the only bridge that connects the Crimean peninsula with the Russian mainland."

Details: The second image shows heavy damage to the bridge.

Later, Christopher Miller, a journalist, posted additional images of the damaged Crimean Bridge from the Maxar company on his Twitter.

PHOTO: CRIMEAN BRIDGE, 8 OCTOBER, CHRISTOPHER MILLER  FROM THE MAXAR COMPANY ON TWITTER

Background: 

• On the morning of 8 October, it was reported that a large fire had broken out on the railway portion of the Crimean Bridge.
• The occupying authorities in Crimea claimed that a truck had exploded on the Crimean Bridge. Meanwhile, Volodymyr Konstantinov, the so-called head of the Parliament of Crimea, said that the road surface on the Crimean Bridge had been damaged by "Ukrainian vandals".
• Vladimir Putin, the president of the aggressor country, has been informed about the fire on the Crimean Bridge; he instructed government officials to set up a special investigation commission.
• Later, the occupiers claimed that the movement of cars and buses across the Crimean Bridge had resumed.
  
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