Russia's key supply line to Ukraine- Crimea Bridge damaged in blasts, two dead. Details here
livemint.comAlso read: NATO summit seeks agreement on Ukraine after Turkey supports Sweden's bid The RBC-Ukraine news agency reported that explosions were heard on the bridge. Russia's Grey Zone channel, a heavily followed Telegram channel affiliated with the Wagner mercenary group, reported that there were two strikes on the bridge at 03:04 a.m. (0004 GMT) and 03:20 a.m.
The parents of a girl were killed and their daughter was injured in a passenger car on the bridge early on Monday, said Vyacheslav Gladkov, governor of the Belgorod region in southern Russia. He did not say how the people were killed. Serhiy Bratchuk, spokesperson for Ukraine's Odesa military administration, posted a photo on his Telegram account of what seemed to show part of the bridge broken.
It was not immediately clear whether that was related to any attack. Reuters was not able to independently verify the reports. There was no immediate comment from Ukraine.
Also read: Russia accuesd of ‘ecocide’ in Ukraine. But what does that mean? George Barros, an analyst at the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War, said on Twitter that if the bridge was seriously damaged it would significantly impact Russian supply lines. "Russia will only have one ground supply line - the coastal highway on the Sea of Azov - to sustain (or evacuate) its tens of thousands of troops in occupied Kherson & Crimea if UKR manages to degrade/destroy the bridge," said Barros.
It was not immediately clear what the incident on the bridge would mean for the U.N.-brokered deal that allows the safe Black Sea export of Ukrainian grain. Ukraine and Russia are among the world's top grain exporters. The U.N.
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