Published: October 10
Updated: Today 14.44
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Putin visits the bridge to Crimea
President Putin and Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin (far left) during Monday’s visit to the Crimean Bridge. Photo: Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP/TT
On Monday, the Russian president was on the bridge that connects the occupied Crimean peninsula with Russia.
The nearly 20-kilometer-long boast was inaugurated by Putin four years ago, and was said to be next to impossible to destroy.
But on October 8, it was damaged by a powerful explosion. Parts of the bridge collapsed.
On Monday, the president drove over the bridge in a Mercedes. He then got out of the car and was briefed by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat Chusnullin about the work to repair the bridge.
Russia has blamed Ukraine for the attack on the bridge, and responded with several retaliatory attacks against Ukrainian infrastructure.
Details: Explosions at Russian airbases
On Monday, there are reports of explosions at two air bases in Russia, far from the front in the war, The Guardian reports.
Russian media have published video clips on social media of the alleged explosions, which they believe must have occurred partly in the Saratov region, partly in the town of Ryanzan, about 24 kilometers from Moscow.
Details: 104 robots in new Russian airstrike
Russia has launched a new air strike against Ukraine. This is according to a spokesperson for the Ukrainian Air Force, according to Reuters.
During the morning, there have been reports of aircraft alarms throughout the country.
According to unconfirmed information to The Guardian, it may be 104 robots from a total of 13 aircraft.
Two people are said to be dead after the airstrikes in the Zaporizhzhia region, according to the newspaper.
Fewer and fewer Russian warplanes over Ukraine
At the beginning of Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine, Russian warplanes flew about 300 sorties daily over Ukraine. Today, there are about ten flights a day. This is stated by the British Ministry of Defense in its latest update on the war, in a post on Twitter.
According to the Ministry of Defense, Russia has lost about 60 warplanes since the war started. The threat from Ukraine’s air defenses and worsening weather are cited as reasons for the reduced number of flights.
Ukraine reacts to Macron’s statement on Russian security guarantees
Oleksiy Danilov, Secretary of the Ukrainian Security and Defense Council reacts to Emmanuel Macron’s statement from last Saturday.
The French president said then that Europe should discuss how to give Russia security guarantees if they come to the negotiating table.
“Who wants to provide security guarantees to a terrorist and murderous state?” writes Oleksiy Danilov in a post on Twitter.
He also writes that the best guarantee of all should be a denuclearized and demilitarized Russia.
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In the winter of 2014, Russia invaded the Ukrainian Crimean peninsula and took it over with the help of heavily armed elite soldiers.
The contradictions spread to eastern Ukraine – where the war between pro-Russians and the Ukrainian army has claimed close to 10,000 lives.
In February 2022, Russia again invaded Ukraine.
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