Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday (July 21) said that the bridge which links Russia to the Crimea peninsula "brings war not peace" and hence it is a military target.

Zelensky calls Crimea bridge 'legitimate military target', says it feeds ammunition for war

A bridge linking the annexed Crimean peninsula to a region of southern Ukraine partially occupied by Russia got damaged after it was struck by Ukrainian missiles, a Russian official claimed on Thursday.

Crimean bridge struck by missile attacks, Russia blames Ukraine

On December 5, ten months after Vladimir Putin announced ‘special military operations’ against Ukraine, the Russian President drove across the strategically crucial Crimean bridge that links southern Russia to the Crimean peninsula administered by Russia since 2014.

Putin walks along Crimean bridge destroyed as 'birthday gift' in October