Bomb truck splits Kerch bridge in two
A bomb truck exploded on the Kerch bridge, which connects Russia to Crimea, causing a vast fire. This was reported by Tass citing the National Counter-Terrorism Committee of Russia. The news has just been broken by Ansa.
As a result of the explosion, the Committee said in a statement, seven fuel tanks of a freight train caught fire.
"A truck from the Taman peninsula exploded on the road part of the Crimean bridge (also known as the Kerch bridge, ed) at 6:07 today, causing the fire of seven fuel tanks of a train bound for the Crimea. - reads the note -. Two spans of the road bridge have partially collapsed ".
The Committee specified that the navigable arch of the viaduct was not damaged. Commenting on the explosion, Mikhailo Podolyak, adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, wrote on Twitter: "Crimea, the bridge, the beginning. Everything illegal must be destroyed, everything stolen must be returned to Ukraine, everything belonging to the Russian occupation must be expelled ”.
Nuclear Armageddon conjured up by Biden
Joe Biden warns: Vladimir Putin "is not joking" and his more or less veiled threats to use tactical atomic weapons in the conflict confront the world with the prospect of an "Armageddon, for the first time since the Cuban missile crisis". Biden specified that Putin "He doesn't joke when he talks about the possible use of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, because his army is in trouble". The situation is so serious that it can be compared to “Threat of nuclear Armageddon since Kennedy”When the US and the former USSR challenged each other because of the Russian missiles deployed in Cuba.
The White House said "not having precise indications that Russia is preparing to use the atomic weapon, but Putin's irresponsible rhetoric risks creating an uncontrollable escalation "The US administration then clarified that there are no signs of an imminent attack while, according to Zelensky, the tsar is already preparing the Russian people for "nuclear strike".
For the Biden administration it remains to be understood what could be the way out for Putin. The American secretary of state Antony blinken, in an attempt to return to the path of peace, he said: "we are ready to resolve the war through diplomacy when Moscow proves that it is serious about going down this path ".
To throw fuel on the fire, the tones of the last message of Zelensky: "Since October 500, over XNUMX square kilometers of land and dozens of settlements have been liberated in the Kherson region, but there is still a lot to endure and a lot to do. The day will come when we will also report on military successes in the Zaporizhzhia region and talk about the liberation of Crimea ".
Zelensky, notes the dose: "Putin and his people", He denounced in an interview with the BBC,"they are starting to prepare Russian society for a potential attack with nuclear weapons: I don't know if they will, but I think it is dangerous to even talk about it ".
In the Kremlin on the day of the Tsar's 70th birthday, emphasis is placed on the controversial intervention of the Ukrainian leader in a think tanks Australian, in which it would have posed the need for preventive NATO attacks on Russian soil to prevent the use of nuclear weapons. Zelensky, however, then clarified that his reasoning was misinterpreted, but that was enough for the Kremlin to affirm that Putin's decision to launch “The special operation has been corrected".
The Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused Kiev of "possible use of weapons of mass destruction". The Ukrainian president also mentioned the "nuclear disaster" by addressing the European leaders gathered in Prague, "due to the capture of the Zaporizhzhia power plant by Russian troops“, Which today also targeted the city with Iranian kamikaze drones, writes the Ansa.
Europe responded by reiterating its support for Kiev, with the green light to one EU training mission for Ukraine. Emmanuel Macron announced “a special fund of 100 million that will allow Kiev to purchase war material directly from our industrialists ”.
The president of the European Parliament Robert Metsol he called for the immediate dispatch of "heavy weapons and tanks" to the Ukrainians.
The Turk Erdogan spoke once again on the phone with the Tsar, to whom he explained that the "Turkey is ready to contribute to the search for a peaceful solution". Receiving thanks for his "mediation" efforts, already decisive in resolving the wheat crisis.