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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Peter Beaumont in Kyiv and Pjotr Sauer

Pressure on Putin grows as his ‘jewel in the crown’ bridge to Crimea is blown up

As a chilly autumn dawn broke on Saturday over the Kerch bridge linking Russia-occupied Crimea to the mainland, the road traffic was light.

With the sky turning pink, a few cars and several lorries were making their way across the bridge, which is about 12 miles (19km) long and before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine was used by 15,000 cars a day,

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