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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
the ukrainians. so far the ukrainians have not claimed responsibility. in fact, one senior adviser to the volodymyr zelenskiy, hinted he believes tf an inside job within the russian security services but unclear who is behind it. we can see on our screens that massive explosion that took place in the early morning hours. the russian investigative committee, the russians say is on the scene and has been working. they say that an explosion occurred at a truck, that a truck blew up and that that explosion sort of caused the chain reaction because there was a train carrying fuel going past that area of the bridge at that point in time. several fuel tanks catching fire, blowing up as well. that s what that big fire that we see now with that thick black smoke going out there for a very long period of time before the russians were able to put that out. the status right now seems to be it s quite interesting because you mentioned this, fredricka, that the russians are saying that t
arrived this morning to inspect the damage and so far no one has claimed responsibility for the blast. fred pleitgen is live for us in kyiv with the latest. so fred, russian officials saying traffic has resumed on the bridge. what are you hearing? reporter: well, we re hearing and seeing some of that traffic, russian officials say it has resumed and it really seems to be just a tiny trickle of traffic if you will. just to give you an overview, it is a pretty wide bridge, it has the rail link that was disrupted for a long period of time. we are hearing a train apparently has managed to bypass that bridge thounow. but it had four automobile bridges, lanes, two in each direction and it seems like one lane is working for all of the traffic. and the explosion that we keep seeing on our screens there was so powerful that it caused part of the car bridge to collapse. and essentially what the russian investigative committee is saying, all of it happened in the very early morning ho
ukraine is not directly claiming responsibility, but the fire has was hardly extinguished by the time ukraine began trolling russia. the ukrainian government s official twitter account tweeting sick burn. it was featured in a russian rom com. now ukraine is giving its own hollywood treatment you might say. ukraine has new stamps with figures of leonardo dicaprio and kate winslet in their famous pose from titanic tierchg tita instead they re on the kerch bridge. there was a video tweeted of marilyn monroe famously singing happy birthday to jfk. take a look. happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday mr. president happy birthday that is epic trolling. fred pleitgen has the latest from the ukrainian capital kyiv. fred, what s the latest from where you are? reporter: i hi there, we see the russians and ukrainians blaming each other for what happened on the kerch bridge, on the crimean bridge. a senior adviser to russian president vladimir putin comin