This was announced on Thursday by Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Marat Zhusnullin. full opening of the Kerch bridge, infrastructure connecting the Crimean peninsula with the Russian mainland and which was the subject of burst at the beginning of October last year.

“Crimean Bridge” completely open to traffic on all its pages 39 days ahead of schedule,” Yusnullin said during a speech to the press, according to the Russian news agency TASS.

Zhusnullin took the opportunity to evaluate all the work to repair the infrastructure, which is already since the beginning of December, traffic has been partially openedin such a way that communication between Crimea and mainland Russia “practically did not stop.”

According to the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, more than half a thousand employees more than 50 cars and even two floating cranes.

On October 8, the day after the birthday of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Kerch bridge was partially blown up in an incident that although Ukraine does not recognize it, it celebrates. Russia, for its part, has always stated that what happened is part of terrorist attack.

Now the infrastructure, symbolically important for Russia to certify communications with Crimea, annexed in 2014, is up and running again. a day to one year after the start of the war.

Russian security services eight people were arrested including five citizens of Russia, in connection with their alleged involvement in the terrorist attack on the Kerch bridge, of which Moscow blamed Ukrainian military intelligence for this.

According to the Federal Security Service (FSB), all the detainees, including citizens of Ukraine and Armenia, somehow participated in the preparation of the action, which partially destroyed the bridge. In total, he identified twelve accomplices.