Russia likely lacks the ability to intercept small, difficult-to-detect uncrewed surface or underwater vehicles, experts told Newsweek on Monday.
The road bridge, rather than the rail crossing, was damaged, the committee said, adding that two adults had been killed and one child injured.
The 12-mile-long Kerch bridge is a crucial route connecting mainland Russia to the annexed Crimean peninsula, which Russia has controlled since 2014. Ukraine has repeatedly said it aims to recover the peninsula, and experts have predicted its ongoing counteroffensive could target the bridge.
In October 2022, the Kerch Bridge was damaged in an explosion that Moscow blamed on Ukraine, although Kyiv has never officially claimed responsibility for the blast.
In a post to Twitter, Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to the head of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s office, appeared to refer to the Kerch Bridge, tweeting: «Any illegal structures used to deliver Russian instruments of mass murder are necessarily short-lived.»
Oleksiy Goncharenko, a member of Ukraine’s parliament, wrote on Telegram on Monday that the damage to the bridge was a «huge success for Ukraine,» adding: «Everyone involved in this should be presented with the highest state awards.
