A major fire has broken out on a controversial bridge linking Crimea with Russia.
A car bomb hit the road bridge around 6 am local time before a fire took hold on several wagons of a train on the adjacent railway bridge, according to the Russian National Anti-Terrorism Committee.
Images shared on social media purported to show fire and damage to the span. The authenticity of the reports and images couldn't be immediately verified.
The crossing is a pair of road and rail bridges that Russia built after it seized and annexed Crimea from Ukraine in violation of international law in 2014.
The fire occurred hours after explosions rocked the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv early Saturday, sending towering plumes of smoke into the sky and triggering a series of secondary explosions.
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