Sat 12 August 2023:
Russia’s Foreign Ministry condemned Ukraine’s “terrorist attack” on the Crimean Bridge on Saturday, saying it endangered the lives of innocent citizens and vowed repercussions.
“There can be no justification for such barbaric actions and they will not go unanswered,” ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement on the Telegram messaging app.
Earlier, Russia’s Defence Ministry said its forces had thwarted a Ukrainian rocket attack on the 12-mile (19 km) bridge, which links Russian-annexed Crimea to Russia across the Kerch Strait.
“Air defence forces shot down two enemy missiles over the Kerch Strait. The Crimean bridge was not damaged,” Sergei Aksyonov, the Russian-installed governor of the Crimean peninsula, said on social media.
In a later statement, he said that Russian air defence forces had shot down another Ukrainian missile targeting the bridge.
He urged locals to remain calm.
Pictures on social media showed columns of smoke rising in the vicinity of the bridge.
Separately, the Russian defence ministry said that the Kyiv regime attempted to strike the Crimean bridge with an S-200 anti-aircraft guided missile.
Later in the day, the defence ministry reported a new Kyiv attempt to target the bridge with an S-200 missile.
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