: :inin Kyiv (EET)

Putin opens new bridge to Crimea, provoking Ukraine, Western ire


KERCH: President Vladimir Putin drew condemnation from the US, Europe and Ukraine on Tuesday after he opened a new bridge linking mainland Russia and Moscow-annexed Crimea by driving a truck across it to the peninsula.
Putin dressed in jeans and a casual jacket was shown by Russian state television behind the wheel of a construction truck to drive 19km across the bridge, which links the Taman peninsula in southern Russia to Ukraine’s Crimea, which was annexed by Moscow in 2014.
“I want to sincerely congratulate you with this remarkable, festive and, in the full sense of the word, historic day,” Putin …read more

Source: theSun

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