'What's subsequent in line, Russkies?': Ukraine taunts Russia over destroyed Crimea bridge

The Ukrainian Protection Ministry appeared to have fun an explosion that destroyed the Kerch Bridge linking Russia to the Crimean Peninsula on Saturday morning.

"The guided missile cruiser Moskva and the Kerch Bridge — two infamous symbols of Russian energy in Ukrainian Crimea — have gone down," the Ukrainian authorities tweeted. "What's subsequent in line, Russkies?"

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Russia forcibly seized Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, and the bridge offered a key provide route for Russian forces deployed to southern Ukraine's Kherson area amid Russian President Vladimir Putin's struggle within the nation.

Ukraine has not formally taken credit score for the blast, which came about in the future after Putin's seventieth birthday. Russian authorities stated Saturday morning that the blast was attributable to a roadside truck, which collapsed two lanes of the bridge and resulted in three casualties.

Mykhailo Podolyak, a senior adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, tweeted Saturday morning, nevertheless, that the Kerch explosion marked simply "the start."

"Every thing unlawful have to be destroyed, every thing that's stolen have to be returned to Ukraine, every thing occupied by Russia have to be expelled," he wrote.

Russian Overseas Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova condemned the response to the blast from Ukrainian officers, claiming the "response of the Kyiv regime to the destruction of civilian infrastructure testifies to its terrorist nature."