{"id":158003,"date":"2022-10-08T23:46:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T23:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=158003"},"modified":"2022-10-09T00:00:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T00:00:07","slug":"an-enormous-explosion-caused-a-bridge-between-crimea-and-russia-that-is-crucial-to-putin-s-war-plans-to-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/an-enormous-explosion-caused-a-bridge-between-crimea-and-russia-that-is-crucial-to-putin-s-war-plans-to-collapse","title":{"rendered":"An Enormous Explosion Caused A Bridge Between Crimea And Russia That Is Crucial To Putin&#8217;s War Plans To Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Explosion causes fire at the Kerch bridge in the Kerch Strait, Crimea on October 08, 2022. Anadolu Agency \/ Anadolu Agency via Getty Images An explosion on a bridge that connects Crimea to Russia, and is vital to the Kremlin&#8217;s military operations in Ukraine, caused it to partially collapse on Saturday. Three people died, reported the Associated Press . No one has taken responsibility for the attack, although Ukraine has threatened to attack the bridge in the past. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky made a cryptic comment during a video address that many took to be commenting on the clouds of smoke and fire from the explosion. &#8220;Today was a good and mostly sunny day on the territory of our state,&#8221; said Zelensky. &#8220;Unfortunately, it was cloudy in Crimea. Although it is also warm.&#8221; The Kerch Bridge, the longest in Europe, was opened by Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2018. Spanning 12 miles long, it symbolized Putin annexing the peninsula from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky made a cryptic comment that many took to be commenting on the clouds of smoke and fire from the explosion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23],"tags":[42],"class_list":["post-158003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}