Iran Press/ Europe: "Today's attack on the Crimean bridge was carried out by the Kyiv regime. This regime is terrorist and has all the hallmarks of an international organized crime group," Maria Zakharova said.
"Decisions are made by Ukrainian officials and the military with the direct participation of American and British intelligence agencies and politicians. The U.S. and Britain are in charge of a terrorist state structure."
The Crimean Bridge, the only link between the annexed peninsula and Russia, has suffered damage to its spans, Russia’s Transport Ministry said Monday and a local official confirmed at least two deaths.
“There is damage to the roadway on spans of the Crimean Bridge,” the Transport Ministry said on Telegram.
The spans on a bridge are the lengths between the support piers.
Images showed a partial collapse of a section of the roadway portion of the bridge, which also carries railroad tracks.
Two parents died in an emergency on the Crimean bridge, and their daughter was injured with moderate severity, Belgorod Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov confirmed on Monday.
The governor of Krasnodar, Veniamin Kondratyev, said that an operational headquarters was set up in the Temryuk district of the Krasnodar Territory to coordinate the actions of all services and to assist the people who were stuck in traffic jams near the bridge.
Later, the Russian Ministry of Transport confirmed that the road surface on the Crimean bridge was damaged on the Crimea side, but refuted media reports that claimed the bridge supports were also affected.
According to the TASS news agency, the ministry said the bridge condition was being inspected continuously.
A special group of investigators from the Russian Investigative Committee has arrived at the scene to conduct an investigation into the emergency.
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