The main bridge linking the Russian mainland to annexed Crimea was blown up in October 2022 using an improvised explosive device with a power equivalent to 10 tons of TNT, a Russian newspaper has reported.
“The group members, at an unspecified time, but no later than August 2022, presumably, on the territory of Ukraine, ‘using industrially produced components, manufactured a high-explosive improvised explosive device (IED) with a capacity of about 10 tons of TNT’,” Kommersant reported. A hidden detonator was triggered by a GPS signal “at the moment of passing a predetermined route point.”
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Source: MSN News
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