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Russia's foreign ministry said on Saturday it repelled a Ukrainian missile attack on the Crimean Bridge, calling it a "terrorist attack" and promising retaliatory action.
Ukrainian forces attacked the Crimean Bridge and several other targets on the Crimean Peninsula with S-200 missiles and drones on Saturday, but there were no casualties or material damage, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.
Fourteen drones were shot down by Russian air defenses and another six were electronically neutralized, the ministry said in a Telegram post.
The 19-kilometer-long bridge connecting Moscow-annexed Crimea with Russia has been the target of several attacks by Ukrainian forces since the start of Russian aggression in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.
Kiev officials neither confirmed nor denied Ukrainian involvement in the attacks. The Moscow-appointed governor of the annexed peninsula, Sergei Aksyonov, said Russian air defenses had also prevented an attack there by shooting down two Ukrainian missiles. The bridge was not damaged, he said, although traffic was briefly suspended.
The bridge connecting Crimea and Russia is of great importance to Moscow, both logistically and psychologically, as a key artery for military and civilian supplies and as a sign of the Kremlin's control over the peninsula, which it illegally annexed in 2014. /VOA
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