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Evening Standard
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Alastair Lockhart and Nicholas Cecil

Secret Ukraine operation 'hits bridge linking Crimea to Russia with 1,100kg of explosives' in dawn attack

Ukraine's security chiefs said on Tuesday they had hit the Kerch road and rail bridge linking Russia and Crimea below the water level with explosives.

The SBU security service said in a statement that it had used 1,100kg of explosives detonated early in the morning, damaging underwater pillars of the 12-mile bridge in the secret operation which took months of planning.

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