Eight men who were handed life sentences by Russian judges over an attack on a bridge linking the Moscow-annexed Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea to Russia issued a joint appeal to be freed on Tuesday, saying they did not know about the Kyiv-planned operation.
The 2022 blast killed five people and badly damaged the Kerch Bridge, which was built after Russia occupied and unilaterally annexed the region from Ukraine in 2014 in a show of Russian President Vladimir Putin's ambitions.
