Russia’s Putin Drives Across Repaired Bridge to Crimea

Russian President Vladimir Putin (C) and Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin (L) visit the Crimean Bridge connecting Russian mainland and Crimean peninsula over the Kerch Strait, which was damaged by a truck bomb attack in October, after restoration works, not far from Kerch, Crimea, on Dec. 5, 2022. Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP

MOSCOW—Russian President Vladimir Putin tried to boost Russian morale Monday by driving a vehicle across a bridge to Crimea that a truck bomb had damaged in October.

Putin took the wheel of a Mercedes to drive across the bridge that links Russia’s mainland with the Crimean Peninsula, which Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014.