As an Irishman... I can tell you this was no truck bomb lol

“Hit it again” - Hans Gruber

That was an unbelievable sophisticated dual strike, hitting the rail and one of the roadways (leaving one in the middle precariously intact for departing Russians).

The calm before the hurricane.

The bridge was flooded in order to create an underwater highway for a successful regrouping from the Crimea

A very special birthday present! Crimea River Vladimir 😢💙💛

”This is NATO’s fault” lmao

"a criminal case?"...seriously, russia?seriously?!🤭

what's there to investigate ? It was a special bridge operation

Well targeted. Feels like a modern day “bridge over the river Kwai!” Keep it up!!!

having looked at various posts of the explosion there are 3 sections of the road displaced, its out of view in some but very obvious in others

I'd love to meet the engineer who gave that the green light lol

Might be a response to a recent under sea pipeline that got blown up? Looks like the timing was planned to have a train in place - which is mind boggling that someone could pull that off.

The blast appears to have come from beneath the bridge

THAT WAS A HIT ....

Vlad was asked what he wanted for his 70th birthday. He replied Nothing special, why don't you surprise me!

Russia says Bridge partly reopens. So we know the bridge is still out of commission. Good to know.

“Another one bites the dust”. Great job for whoever did it.

Suspicious how Russia reacted to their bridge blowing up compared to their pipeline blowing up.

Oh yeah? Operational for what, Submarines? That bridge burned for like 6 hours, that thing has the consistency of a cookie in warm milk by now

There is a car constantly next to the truck. I assume that accounts for the 3 people killed... Still... Wouldn't the blast of explosives in this truck rather move sideways rather than downwards ? And how comes the bridge was destroyed at two parts, and exactly at every girder's edge, on top of the pier and at the same time a train with tank cars is passing by ? I mean, the timing and the type of blast seems to be just a little bit too perfect to perform from within a speeding truck....

For me the issue is the truck in the video was on the Russian side of the road heading towards Crimea from the Russian Mainland.

They had to have timed that out to get the train too. Good job! I wish they would have brought down both spans.

Did you upload the wrong video? Where is the "partly reopened" as stated in the title?

Putin to Sergei, " Is the rail link serviceable"? "I don't know sir" "Then run the next scheduled passenger train over it, if it holds up it's OK"

I’m sure tourism in Crimea is doing well!

listen pleasse ! end is near but there is hope JESUS CHRIST IS THE SAVIOR! ALELUIA! JESUS CHRIST IS THE LORD !ALELUIA! GOD BLESS YOU !AMEN

Wooh what a speedy recovery, thats efficient.

Irony would dictate that the moment Russia moves a train carrying ammo, fuel and equipment over the bridge, it will collapse.

Bet people are just rushing to use that bridge now

The bridge is a solid one Indeed

In yet another gesture of goodwill, as it did with the bridges over the Dnipro River, Ukraine destroyed only the runway that comes from Russia towards Crimea, leaving the runway intact for those who want to flee Crimea to Russia while there is still time. Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 Heroyam slava 👏👏👏👏

So desperate to show strength that they are letting cars drive on a possible damaged bridge on the same day as an explosion.

Ukraine needs to totally destroy that bridge and stop Putin’s military supply against Ukraine

Russia saying “we have opened a criminal case” is the most ironic thing I’ve ever read

and every military in the world just got a perfect education on how to drop a modern bridge.

What is an interesting observation is that if it was indeed the truck that blew up, why did the driver not drive in the inner lane when it blew up which would have caused more damage and likely destroyed the other direction bridge as well? That tells us that the driver must have had no idea he was transporting a bomb and it must have been remotely detonated. So it was clearly not a suicide bomber. So if Ukrainian saboteurs are behind it they must have camouflaged the bomb really well inside the truck so that not even the x-ray machine guards discovered it. The only other possibility would have been that it was transporting explosives for the Russians and it accidentally blew up right when it passed the train, which would be super lucky for the Ukrainians. I think the former scenario is much more likely though. Of course, if it was not the truck, it was most likely a missile or a drone. Unfortunately we won't know for sure since the Russians are doing the investigations and only the story that Putin wants the Russian people to think will be told.

Russian military truck carrying explosives, Viktor in the back lighting a cigarette 😂

There's a calm before the storm.

Wait until they finish fixing it before you hit it again.

Just like all the battleground defeats, in a couple of months Kremlin will say it all never existed or was just part of the original plan 😂

I think it was probably Russian army moving replenishments. It came from the Russian side and it exploded when the road angle changed. Accident while moving ammo…

truly terrifying times....

It’s a “Special underwater military operation”

I can’t see many 40+ tonne tanks or MLRS crossing any time soon, least not safely..

Pooter's birthday was a blast. Cheers!

Good coverage. Here's to hope they'll be able to finish off the bridge and keep it closed.

Love their resiliency

Partly reopen? That’s because there’s only part of it left to travel on

I am shocked. Shocked... D'you hear, that there is violence going on in this establishment. Guards ! Guards! (Round up the usual suspects)

The bridge already back to operation

Presumably this explosion was just a warning. The next time the bridge should be taken out completely.

This was NOT a truck bomb...it was from underneath by a boat of some kind. Look at 1:13 in quarter speed and you see a wake a split second before the blast.

We'll have to see if we can't fix this new development. Hopefully not leaving any portion usable.

Misleading title. If the bridge is in use, why no footage of that?

i just like how the truck was peacefully walking driver hears an explosion in his back lol

It was pre planned just by looking at the timing of the oil train.

Hit it again and again.

Thank God, the Retreating Lane is still open

Repaired? Well then, that seems to be an invitation to have the job completed...💪💙💛

12 miles of bridge and the bit that exploded was on CCTV from multiple angles? Looks like that boat @ 1:14 ran over a mine.

Fuller?

As far as the whole world is concerned Crimea will be Ukranian forever, and Putin's "special military operation" has turned into a "special self-destruction operation". Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 Heroyam slava 👏👏👏👏 Glory to all these brave people who defend Ukraine and its independence 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇸🇬🇧 Together we are stronger 💪💪💪💪

Nobody wants to see Russia nuking ukraine as much as NATO😂

I seriusly doubt the engineers even had time to scope out the damage done. I would NOT thrust to go over that bridge.

the pictures look different. The bomb picture shows the truck going up a hill and the bomb damage is on a flat part?

This is unfortunate the Nordstream pipeline was blown apart and now the Crimean bridge attacked. The ukraine war is taking a different tool on the vital infrastructure. We need global leaders to display interest and care to save humanity from a Nuclear war. Keep up the good work at BBC.

sad news. i really hope someone make work of it to make sure its never operational again...

It's always quite before the storm.

Go back and do it again Ukraine, and totally demolish it next time, the entire length of it.

Think of just how careful we were about Hammersmith Bridge. To reopen the Kerch bridge so quickly, without having a thorough inspection by engineers, shows just how embarrassed and humiliated Putin is by this. As a deranged psychopath who doesn't value life, this reopening is a desperate attempt to salvage some credibility.

Зависть, злоба и злоба. Я рада, что мост возобновил свою работу. Но погибших не вернуть.

Damnit.

If Pootin uses a nuclear weapon, you can be sure that the bridge will be one of the many targets that NATO will take out.

Partly reopened, yes, they are practical and pragmatic in Russia. If this happened in UK the whole thing would be closed for at least a whole year.

0:30 It's not Russia on the right of the screen, but Crimea. Unless of course the BBC considers Crimea to be Russia.

The good news for the russians is that the bridge now leads directly to the Moskva.

Super good work.... I respect professional hit man.. Regarding from Finland 🇫🇮 We have experience destroying 👍russia bridges...1939 - 1944 in russia...😁👍

WOW what a blast ... Boom 💥

e=mc2?

We Yanks and Limeys stand with Ukraine. -Dave the Bloody Yank

hope they do it again

Beyond reckless...those are not safe to travel on!

I thought ten miles of the bridge had collapsed!!!!!

Crimean Peninsula - Ukraine 💙💛

This is the lesson Russia will not forget

i say it was a missile strike that just missed the bridge to the right of the picture. here is my reasoning. (must see the dachcam video of the car on the bridge first) click by click in slow motion; first for about 3 clicks before the screen turns white you see a bright light getting brighter with each click. at that point just before the screen turns all white you can see the truck has not caused the explosion because the light is not being emitted from it. so not a truck bomb. 6 clicks latter when the image comes back you see a fireball that is more intense on the right side of the bridge. it looks like the explosion happened either under the right-side traffic lanes, or was a missile exploding just to the right of the bridge. i don't think it was a direct hit from a missile on the bridge based on the lack of debris and the bridge lacks any torn up sections (visible, but maybe under water?) with rebar twisting out of it. if you look at the smoke, it is all drifting to the left of the picture in a uniform way also supporting my theory of the explosion being initiated from the right side or just under the righthand lanes. next coming out of the smoke you see debris that appears to be water coming into focus and it is all traveling from the right side of the bridge to the left like the center of the explosion was off to the right of the bridge and not from under it. you can also see what appears to be a glow under the water on the right of the bridge. their is another camera angle that shows video under the bridge that shows a splash wave just before the explosion happens. some have said this looked like a bow wake of a boat but to me it looks more like a splash like you get by throwing a big rock in a pond and not like a bow wake you would see from ships. also if it had been a ship, we would have seen wreckage or heard something about it by now. modern torpedoes do not impact the ships they are targeted at, they explode under the bottom of the boat creating a huge upward blast wave to crack the hull and then it leaves a void in the water under the middle of the ship for a second, and the ship falls down into it with the bow and stern holding up the ends while the middle sags into the void ripping the weakened ship into two parts. my conclusion is this was a missile strike that just missed the bridge and detonated under the water causing the upward pressure wave that broke the bridge deck. this is why we seen the growing light before the explosion was seen and all the water/debris that came from the right of the bridge. if it would have been a boat, why would they detonate it before getting to the bridge? plus there would have been pieces of metal flying through the air from it breaking apart. 1

Response will be fierce and decisive.

I did'nt know that a Orc bridge looks beautiful in the sunset....burning😉🥳😎

We are seeing very dangerous trends ...

Just heard that the German railway communication cable was sabotaged in north Germany. Trains have stopped running in north Germany.

Fascinating Russia 🇷🇺 Abysmal Ukraine 🇺🇦

That bridge ia now truly beautiful.

Could it be an ATACMS missile fired from a Himars or a m270 mlrs?

That lorry driver was sacrificed on putin's birthday - I'm disgusted!

PUBLIC NOTICE: Please do not get overexcited. This was only a practice run, more to follow. Kerch really is a Bridge too far. Wait for the next exciting episode involving Ukrainian Extra Special Forces. 💙💛 Slava Ukraini 😂🤣😂

That was the destroying of the year, This have hot the Russian pride and shows how strokng Ukraine is .God help Ukraine

Hit it again!

Ruzzia is NOT on the right of the screen (0:32)!!! the image is from the north (south is the top of the image), so Crinea is the right siode and Russia is to the left . Also - THREE span have been dropped - the 2 shown at 3:33 and a third to the left. This is seen on other images and videos.

Russians caught sleeping 😴