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explosion of the only bridge connecting russia with the annexed territory of crimea. now, the blast partially collapsed the kerch bridge and paralyzed a key supply route from moscow s faltering war in ukraine. but this bridge isn t just logistically important, it s also a huge symbol for the kremlin in its attempt to reunify crimea with the russian mainland. ukraine has not claimed responsibility for this, but after the blast in kyiv, people can be seen taking selfies in front of a billboard depicting the image of the bridge on fire. that s not the only thing you re seeing from ukraine mocking the explosion. fred pleitgen joins us now. fred is in kyiv. he has the latest developments. what are you hearing, fred, about who s behind this explosion. reporter: yeah, well, the russians are moving very quickly to point the finger of blame at the ukrainians. this is quite interesting because i ve been following a lot of telegram channels coming out of russia. a lot of top r ....
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Front of it in central kyiv. you have ukrainian politicians mocking russian president vladimir putin. in fact, the national security advisor here in ukraine, because it was putin s 70th birthday yesterday, juxtaposed the video of marilyn monroe singing for jack kennedy, happy birthday mr. president, and juxtaposed that with the bridge on fire to mock the russian president. in general, it is something that is, obviously, quite humiliating for the russians, this important logistical route and one of those big projects that the ukrainians have always considered a slap in the face of ukraine and one that the russians really was very important for them to try to develop crimea on their part. so definitely this is a huge, huge blow to the russians and definitely something where the ukrainians military political sphere and many people here in kyiv are quite happy about it. it will be interesting to see how the impact strategically it this plays out for russia. ....
Russians, obviously, use it not just for regular civililian tra fuel for russia s war effort in ukraine. it is a very, very important bridge strategically, but symbolic value as well as vladimir putin himself inaugurated this bridge in 2018. guys. and, fred, notably, the ukrainians have not taken credit for the explosion, but there is a psychological warfare component to this where they are celebrating online and linking it to vladimir putin s birthday. yes, you are right. that is one of the things. one of the other things that i thought was quite interesting also was that the ukrainian postal service within hours of this happening came out with a new stamp come mmemorating the explosion of the bridge of crimea, the kerch bridge. people were taking selfies in ....
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