Occupiers begin allowing passenger trains to cross Crimean Bridge

KATERYNA TYSHCHENKO — SATURDAY, 8 OCTOBER 2022, 23:18

Russian occupiers have restored freight and passenger train traffic over the Crimean Bridge which was damaged by an explosion on Saturday morning.

Source: Russian news agency Interfax, citing a shipping company and the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation

Details: On the evening of Saturday, the first passenger train, en route from occupied Simferopol to Moscow, went under arches of the Crimean Bridge.

Double-decker train No. 28 connecting Simferopol to Moscow departed from Simferopol at 17:10 (Moscow time), according to schedule.

The Ministry of Transport of Russia has reported that the sale of tickets for passenger trains to Russian-occupied Crimea has been restored. 

Movement of freight trains began at 18:42. Over the course of the night, 12 passenger trains are scheduled to pass across the bridge, as stated in the Ministry’s message.

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