(CTN NEWS0 - The traffic flow on the sole bridge connecting Russia to Crimea, which is under Moscow's control and serves as a vital supply route for the
vowing there will be a response and that the russian military is preparing options. new satellite imagery shows extensive damage from the blast. a section of the bridge knocked out. russian authorities now say it won t be fully functional until november. ukraine quickly claimed that it was behind this secret operation. a rare admission. saying it was a joint operation by ukraine s navy and security services which cryptically tweeted, the bridge was sleeping again. a reference to a huge explosion in october last year as a fuel truck exploded on the 12-mile, 19-kilometer bridge igniting a passing train. putin then called it an act of sabotage. appearing on the bridge when it was reopened two months later. a direct strike on his nearly $4 billion project. connecting russia to crimea and that he personally inaugurated in 2018. it is become a vital supply
world s food supply, the black sea grain initiative expired in less than an hour. this will likely stop the flow of supplies from what is commonly referred to as europe s br bread basket. alex marquardt is in the city of odessa for us as russia insists it will over come ukraine s latest bridge strike. reporter: a brazen strike on russia s bridge that links it to the illegally annexed peninsula after sea drones targed it just before dawn. two people were killed in the attack according to russian officials. the a child was injured. traffic on the critical highway grinding to a halt and trains temporarily stopped. tonight russian president vladimir putin called it a terrorist attack.
peninsula of crimea and putin calls it a terrorist attack and vows to respond. plus a big week in the 2024 presidential race. the event drawing gop c contenders. i ll speak with asa hutchinson. and spell check needs. putting sensitive pentagon information potentially into the wrong hands. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. and we start with our world lead. vladimir putin is vowing retaliation after ukraine forces unleashed a pre-dawn strike on the bridge that connects crim yia to russia. two russians were killed. it is the second time since the start of the war. putin was quick to label today s strike as a taste attack. this is the same day that russia has ended a deal critical to the
what type of weapon was used and what might that reveal about the capabilities weeks into the counter offensive. this is revealing a lot. this is a surf board on steroids. think about this traveling at about 80 kilometers an hour with about 200 kilograms of explosives on it. and what they were able to do was use this device and go about 500 kilometers, all the way out here and undetected by the russian navy, that is a very significant thing. that shows that they have the ability to conduct dreep strike against the russians and that puts any ship out in the black sea to potentially be targeted by the ukrainians who are showing themselves to be incredibly resourceful and intelligent and resilient in putting weapons like this into the war. and there are new concerns about a deteriorating security situation in the black sea after russia pulled out of this grain