Oct 8-Buongiorno! Kerch Bridge explosion

Breaking news and reactions

BREAKING: The Kerch Bridge is falling down

Saint Javelin @saintjavelin

Babe wake up the Crimean bridge is on fire

The Kerch bridge from Russia to Crimea – a hated symbol of the Kremlin’s occupation of the southern Ukrainian peninsular – has been hit by a massive explosion on the span that carries railway traffic.

Images from the bridge showed a fiercely burning fire engulfing at least two railway carriages from a train on the bridge, accompanied by a vast column of black smoke.

The explosion, which witnesses said could be heard kilometres away, took place around 6am on Saturday while a train was crossing the bridge, although it was not immediately clear what caused it.

Some images appeared to show a second fire at some distance from the main blaze. Later images also appeared to show that part of road bridge that runs parallel with the train tracks had collapsed.

I’ll be up-dating you later on.

Oliver Carroll @olliecarroll

Slowed down video released by Russian military blogger could show a truck bomb, a car bomb, something exploding under the water. Or something else entirely.

jacopo iacoboni @jacopo_iacoboni

According to several sources, starting from Baza, a fuel car caught fire on the Crimean bridge. The causes are currently unknown, but an entire part of the bridge could collapse.

Thomas C. Theiner @noclador

1) 3 (!) separate sections of the road bridge collapsed. That means two strikes 2) blast damage on the guardrails is consistent with a detonation above the road pavement 3) 2 ATACMS (fired from a M270)

Nolan Peterson @nolanwpeterson

From Telegram: line at a gas station in Crimea this morning.

Reactions

toomas hendrik ilves @IlvesToomas

What Bridge Defense Doing?

Russian official accuses Ukraine of hitting Crimea Bridge. Vladimir Konstantinov, the head of Crimea's Russian-installed illegal "parliament", claimed that the damage was "insignificant", and the bridge would be repaired soon.

Russian source says someone planted a remote bomb on the train in the mainland and detonated it when the train was on the bridge.

Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @OlgaNYC1211

Kerch bridge I am speechless.

Oleksiy Goncharenko @GoncharenkoUa

Let's talk frankly. Right now, Ukraine is capable of inflicting a military defeat on Russia. We need: rockets tanks ammunition fighter aircrafts Let's destroy the bear and live in our own Europe again!

Paul Adams @BBCPaulAdams

A former British army explosives expert says “this is a masterpiece of clandestine sabotage.” Importance of this is hard to exaggerate. #KerchBridge

Oleksiy Danilov @OleksiyDanilov

Доброго ранку, Україно! 🇺🇦

Maria Avdeeva @maria_avdv

- Tolya, I'll be late, the bridge is on fire. Tolya will have to wait for a while. Traffic on the Crimean bridge is completely closed.

Ukrainian Memes Forces @uamemesforces