On Monday, December 5, the president of the aggressor state, Vladimir Putin, visited the Crimean bridge, which was destroyed by an explosion at the beginning of October this year.

Here he talked with the builders and drove across the bridge driving a German Mercedes. 

Russian propagandists report this by publishing a corresponding video. 

The master of the Kremlin was informed that traffic on the right, repaired side of the Crimea Bridge is open.

Whether Putin personally verified this information is unknown.

The video with his movement by car lasts several seconds.

Vice Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Marat Husnullin said that four spans on the left side of the bridge were also damaged and must be replaced.

In addition, within 6-7 months, the Russians plan to restore the second track on the railway part of the bridge.

Earlier, the Ministry of Defense of Great Britain assumed that the repair of the Crimean bridge is unlikely to be completely completed by September 2023.

It will be recalled that on Friday, December 2, Russian President Vladimir Putin, during a telephone conversation with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, said that missile attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure are a "forced and inevitable" response to attacks from Ukraine.

In particular, he mentioned the Kerch Bridge, which connects the Russian mainland with the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea, annexed by Moscow in 2014 in violation of international law.

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