Russian Defence Ministry Says Boat Destroyed Trying to Attack Crimea Bridge

A view through a train window shows the section of a road split and sloping to one side following an alleged attack on the Crimea Bridge, that connects the Russian mainland with the Crimean peninsula across the Kerch Strait, in this still image from video taken on July 17, 2023. Stringer/Reuters

Russia’s Defence Ministry said early on Saturday that its forces had destroyed an unmanned Ukrainian boat being used in an attempt to attack the bridge linking the Crimean peninsula to the Russian mainland.

The bridge, completed in 2018, has come under attack in Moscow’s 18-month-old invasion of Ukraine.