Overview

• Ukraine’s Security Service reports it placed 1,100 kg of explosives on the bridge’s underwater supports, leaving the structure in an emergency condition.
• Russian authorities temporarily closed the road and rail crossing for about three hours before reopening it with no reported civilian casualties.
• The months-long operation was overseen by SBU chief Vasyl Malyuk and follows two previous attacks on the bridge in 2022 and 2023.
• The strike came two days after Ukraine’s “Spiderweb” drone mission hit four Russian airbases and damaged strategic bombers across Murmansk, Ryazan, Irkutsk and Amur regions.
• Kyiv maintains the bridge is a lawful military target because it serves as Moscow’s primary logistics artery to occupied Ukrainian territories and peace negotiations remain deadlocked.