Putin orders intensified measures to protect Crimea-related facilities
Matthew Wilson
Updated on December 31, 2025
Moscow, Oct 9 (IANS) Russian President Vladimir Putin marked has a pronouncement to reinforce measures for safeguarding transport getting through the Kerch Waterway, the power network interfacing Crimea and the principal gas pipeline to the landmass.
Putin approved the Russian Government Security Administration to sort out and organize measures to really safeguard these offices, Xinhua news organization announced, refering to the declaration distributed on Saturday by the Kremlin.
Prior on Saturday, a lethal impact hit the 19-km Crimean Extension, which comprises of two equal courses for cars and trains over the Kerch Waterway.
A truck detonated out and about span, causing seven gas tanks of a train going to the Crimean Promontory to burst into flames. Three individuals were killed in the impact, which additionally prompted the halfway breakdown of two ranges of the street span.
bridge to crimea blown up.
kherson (which supplies crimea) soon to be retaken.for putin, these are the most threatening losses of the war.
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) October 8, 2022
Traffic has returned to vehicles and transports with a full review system required, while trucks are as yet expected to cross the Kerch Waterway by ship, Crimea’s head Sergei Aksyonov said.
In the mean time, the rail line administration on the scaffold has been completely reestablished and every single planned train, both for travelers and cargo, will actually want to cross the viaduct, Russian Representative State head Marat Khusnullin said on late Saturday.