Russia strikes key metropolis after bridge assault

Russia fired 20 missiles at residential regions of Zaporizhzhia in southern Ukraine, killing a minimum of thirteen people and injuring 60, Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.

The strikes got here after an explosion on Saturday destroyed part of the Kerch Strait Bridge, the only bridge that connects the Russian mainland to the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia illegally annexed in 2014. A senior Ukrainian official said the blast became orchestrated through Ukrainian intelligence services.

The 12-mile bridge is the maximum essential delivery line for Russian troops fighting in southern Ukraine, and destroying a part of it turned into a non-public affront to Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, who presided over its starting in 2018 and described the explosion as a “terrorist assault” on Sunday.

What’s subsequent: Russian information reports stated that a few street and rail traffic had resumed, however, vans had been sponsored on both aspects of the bridge. After the assault, celebrations in Kyiv gave way to apprehension over feasible Russian reprisals.

Response: “These areas haven't any army purpose,” Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in an assertion. “The simplest purpose of Russia’s planned assaults turned into to motive death and destruction to civilian human beings, sow terror and fear.”

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