{"id":418831,"date":"2023-07-17T10:14:37","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T07:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=418831"},"modified":"2023-07-17T10:15:04","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T07:15:04","slug":"ukraine-behind-new-crimean-bridge-attack-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/ukraine-behind-new-crimean-bridge-attack-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine behind new Crimean Bridge attack \u2013 media"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article__cover article__cover-left\">\n<div class=\"media__footer media__footer_bottom \">The Crimean Bridge was damaged in a joint <em>\u201cspecial operation\u201d<\/em>\u00a0conducted by Ukraine\u2019s Security Service (SBU) and naval forces, media outlets reported on Monday. The Russian authorities have yet to announce the reason behind the incident.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__text text \">\n<p>According to a source for RBK Ukraina, the key infrastructure linking the peninsula with mainland Russia was attacked by an unspecified number of sea surface drones.<em>\u00a0\u201cIt was difficult to reach the bridge, but finally the task was accomplished,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian officials have cheered the incident but have yet to confirm their direct involvement in the reported attack. Andrey Yusov, a spokesman for Ukraine\u2019s Main Directorate of Intelligence, described the Crimean Bridge as a\u00a0<em>\u201credundant construction,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0but refused to elaborate.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic on the bridge was stopped in the early hours of Monday, with Crimean Governor Sergey Aksyonov citing an unspecified\u00a0<em>\u201cemergency.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Later, Belgorod Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said that a married couple from his region was killed in the incident and their daughter was injured.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s Ministry of Transport said the road surface of one of the tracks was damaged, while the bridge\u2019s supports remain intact.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine has attempted to target the strategic link in the past, according to Moscow. Last week, the Russian Defense Ministry said that Kiev attempted to strike the bridge with a missile, but failed to penetrate the air defenses.<\/p>\n<p>In October last year, the bridge was damaged in a deadly truck bombing, which Moscow said was orchestrated by Ukrainian intelligence services. At the time, Russia responded by intensifying missile strikes on Ukraine\u2019s military and energy infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Source: RT<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Crimean Bridge was damaged in a joint \u201cspecial operation\u201d\u00a0conducted by Ukraine\u2019s Security Service (SBU) and naval forces, media outlets reported on Monday. The Russian authorities have yet to announce the reason behind the incident. According to a source for RBK Ukraina, the key infrastructure linking the peninsula with mainland Russia was attacked by an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":418832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-418831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418831"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418834,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418831\/revisions\/418834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}