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Ukraine strikes Kerch bridge in Crimea with underwater explosives
June 03, 2025
Kyiv has hit the Kerch bridge in Crimea — a key piece of Russian infrastructure illegally built by Moscow after its unilateral annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula in 2014.
Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) released the video of the attack on Tuesday, showing the explosion underwater.
The operation, which took months to plan, was carried out by the SBU and took months to plan.
In the official statement on Telegram, the SBU explained how exactly it managed to strike Russia’s illegally constructed bridge for the third time since the beginning of Moscow’s full-scale invasion.
"The operation lasted for several months. SBU agents mined the supports of this illegal construction," the agency said, adding that "without inflicting any civilian casualties, the first explosive was activated at 4:44 am."
The SBU added that the bridge's underwater supports were severely damaged as 1,100 kilograms of explosives in TNT equivalent were detonated.
The Kerch bridge links Russia and the Ukrainian peninsula and therefore is a critical supply and transport route for Russian forces to the occupied Ukrainian territories, specifically in southern Ukraine.
Kyiv has hit the bridge twice previously, in October 2022 and July 2023, damaging it significantly but not destroying it, as it remained operational.
The operation on Tuesday follows Kyiv’s daring mass drone attack on Russian strategic aviation on Sunday and has also been personally supervised by SBU chief Vasyl Maliuk.
“Third time's a charm. The SBU always completes its plans and never repeats itself,” Mailuk said in a statement on Tuesday.
Maliuk also reiterated that the Crimean bridge is "an absolutely legitimate target" for Kyiv.
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