Nicholas II and Stalin had dreamed of it, but it was Vladimir Putin who built it, to complete the attachment of the Crimean peninsula, annexed by Moscow in 2014, to greater Russia... The Kerch bridge, the most along Europe with its 18 kilometers, cost 4 billion dollars.
For three years, 10,000 workers sweated day and night to install its gigantic pillars at the bottom of the strategic strait which connects the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
Financed by Russian oligarch Arkadi Rotenberg, the “Putin Bridge”, as it is nicknamed, has particular strategic and symbolic value for the Russian president, who personally inaugurated it on May 15, 2018. In October 2022, then at In the summer of 2023, it was targeted and damaged by Ukrainian fire.
Since then, to protect it from naval drone attacks, the Russians have reinforced it with anti-sabotage structures.
But all Ukrainian soldiers dream of blowing it up.
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