🔧 Sabotage

Ukraine's military intelligence agency (HUR) carried out a cyberattack on Russian-occupied Crimea, targeting servers of propaganda media, telecom operators, and the traffic registration system on the Kerch Bridge.

Kerch, Crimea
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Kyiv Independent Ukrinform

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Kyiv Independent → Source tone: certain

HUR carried out a cyberattack on several facilities in Russian-occupied Crimea on June 27, targeting servers of propaganda media, telecom operators, and the system for registering and controlling traffic on the Kerch Bridge.

Ukrinform → Source tone: likely

For the third week, some kind of protective structures have been built near the Kerch Bridge.

Ukrinform → Source tone: certain

Prior to that, the Russians tried to protect the Crimean Bridge with boom barriers made of flooded barges.

Ukrinform → Source tone: likely

They also recently began to install piers under the bridge.

Ukrinform → Source tone: certain

Russians had increased the number of barges to protect the Kerch Bridge to 21.

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Extracted: 2026-03-22T23:58:11.427Z

Source story: source-military-intelligence-stops-traffic-on-kerch-bridge-collapses-accounting-systems-in-crimea