Overview

• The head of Ukraine's Security Service said the agency was behind the bridge explosion in October 2022.
• The blast on the Kerch Bridge killed three people and severed an important Russian supply route to Crimea.
• Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 and the bridge opened in 2018.
• The SBU chief called the bridge attack one of their undisclosed special operations against Russia.
• The blast highlighted the strategic vulnerability of the bridge, the sole direct link between Russia and Crimea.