By Brendan Cole and Shane Croucher
Newsweek (June 2, 2025)
https://www.newsweek.com/crimea-bridge-hit-explosion-2080254kraine's security service (SBU) has said it has carried out another special operation targeting Russia's Kerch Bridge to Crimea.
The SBU announced it had conducted an underwater attack that left the structure "in disrepair" and published a video of the explosion, which was the third attack against the Crimean Bridge since Russia's full-scale war began in 2022.
Newsweek has contacted the Russian defense ministry for comment. The attack is ongoing, local Telegram channels and pro-Kremlin milbloggers reported on Tuesday, with a naval drone targeting the bridge again shortly after the initial blast.
In a post on Telegram, the SBU said its agents had mined the underwater supports of the bridge in an operation that was months in the planning, detonating the first device at 4:44 a.m. local time Tuesday.
The SBU said it had "badly damaged" those supports with the explosives, which had the blast equivalent of 1100 kilograms of TNT.
"In fact, the bridge is in disrepair," the SBU said.
The $4 billion bridge aimed to affirm the Kremlin's illegal annexation of Crimea and had been damaged during two previous Ukrainian attacks in October 2022 and July 2023, though neither managed to take the bridge out of service...
