attempt to claim crimea from ukraine. russia claims at least three people were killed. a russian investigative committee arrived this morning to inspect the damage and so far no one has claimed responsibility for the blast. cnn s fred pleitgen is live for us from kyiv with the very latest on this. fred, russian officials are now saying traffic has resumed on the bridge? how is that happening? reporter: well, they are saying that the traffic is in reverse on that bridge. they are trying to clear the cars off that bridge but trying to get the traffic moving again as fast as possible. essentially, what they are saying is that all of this happened, this explosion happened in the early morning hours of this morning. when the lacey latest that they have is a struck they say exploded, even though it s not exactly clear whether or not that is the case, that a truck blew up. we have some of that video of that explosion taking place, which seems to have been massive. as a result ther
mike: in kyiv ukrainians are preparing for more russian missile strikes as cold winter sets in. jeff paul has the latest from ukraine s capital, jeff. jeff: yeah, mike, another tense state of waiting and watching here in kyiv as many expect and brace for another attack, possible one by russian forces, however, u.s. intelligence agencies saying the quiet period that we are going through is par for the course and they even expect a slowdown in the fighting in the coming months. we know are both in situation where they are looking to try to refit, resupply and reconstitute so that they are prepared for the counteroffensive and we have skepticism whether or not the russians will be prepared to do that. jeff: now the one place where we can see intense fighting is in the east specifically in the
were carrying tanks and other military equipment, also the road as well they were using. now all of that has been disrupted. obviously, that to a certain degree is causing some panic apparently in crimea as well. there was video on social media, people lining up at gas stations even though the russians say that all of that is ensured, they have enough fuel on the crimean peninsula. the ukrainians have not claimed responsibility even though the russians are pointing the finger of blame at the ukrainians. one official there in crimea saying that it was ukrainian vandals behind all this. the ukrainians definitely not saying it was them so far. all right. fred pleitgen, thank you so much. we will check back. ukrainians are already cheering the crimean bridge explosion even without claiming responsibility. one senior ukrainian official posting this on twitter. marilyn monroe s famous birthday
serenade to jfk. happy birthday to you and this is why. the explosion of the kerch bridge coming hours after vladimir putin s 70th birthday. in kyiv ukrainians took selfies in front of a painting of the bridge blast. for more, let s turn to military analyst retired air force colonel cedric leighton. colonel, good to see you. fred pleitgen used the word humiliating, this would be humiliating to putin. how do you see it? definitely. this is one of the biggest humiliations that putin could experience, let alone something happen in moscow. this situation with the kerch bridge being blown up seen as a major engineering project of the russian federation being disrupted and at least part of