The Kerch Bridge was damaged when explosive devices hidden in a truck detonated, equivalent to 10 tons of TNT.
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On the morning of October 8, 2022, the detonation of explosives equivalent to 10 tons of TNT, hidden in a truck, brought down two spans of the Kerch Bridge, which connected occupied Crimea to the Russian mainland.
The bridge was heavily damaged by Ukrainian strikes in October 2022 and July 2023.
The first strike on the Crimean Bridge took place on the morning of 8 October 2022, the day after Vladimir Putin's 70th birthday. It involved a truck with explosives wrapped in foil.
The 'rolls' filled an entire container; their total weight in TNT equivalent corresponded to 21 tonnes or 42 Russian hypersonic Kinzhal missiles.
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