Russian occupiers admit trucks will not be allowed on Crimean Bridge until December

TETIANA LOZOVENKO — WEDNESDAY, 26 OCTOBER 2022, 15:13

The Russian occupiers will not open the road section of the Kerch Bridge in occupied Crimea to trucks until December 2022.

Source: press service of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation; Russian news outlet RBC

Details: The Russian Ministry of Transport confirmed that trucks will be allowed onto the bridge no earlier than 1 December.

Trucks may cross the Kerch Strait by an alternative land road route, via the Kerch ferry, or by transferring to rail transportation.

Background:

• On 8 October, according to the Russian side, a truck exploded on the Kerch Bridge, causing fuel tanks to catch fire. Two spans of the roadway of the Krasnodar [Russia]-Kerch branch collapsed.
• Sergei Aksyonov, the "head" of the occupation administration of Crimea, announced that the movement of cars and buses across the Crimean Bridge had resumed.
• On 18 October, during a speech in the State Duma [the lower house of the Russian Parliament], Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin announced that trucks weighing up to 40 tonnes were allowed to cross the Kerch Bridge.

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