Between Taman peninsula and continental Russia, to southeast, Crimea peninsula, to northwest, Kerch bridge is a major Russian line of communication, for military and civilians, which has been completed in June 2020

On October 8, 2022, at about 6:15 am, local time, a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED) explodes on the bridge. Unless a remote-controlled vehicle and if the trucker knows that he is sit on a bomb, the attack is a suicide operation. Several other drivers are killed. Out of four, two car spans collapse. The blast ablazes fuel tanks on a train. The railway is damaged, will be restored in the evening

The West seems reluctant to an official claim of responsibility. Ukrayinska Pravda and the Washington Post cite an anonymous official source and report that the Ukrainian State security agency (SBU) has conducted the attack. Mykhailo Podolyak is adviser to the head of the office of…