Russia’s terror strikes fail to do much damage to Ukraine
Its retaliation for the bombing of the Kerch bridge falls flat
EVERY BRIDGE stands for something. The 19km (12 mile)-long Kerch Bridge was meant to cement Vladimir Putin’s seizure of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 by joining the peninsula to Russia. On October 8th a massive explosion blew out one of its carriageways and crippled one of its rail-tracks. Most analysts pinned the bombing on Ukraine’s special forces. The attack will hamper Russian military logistics in occupied Ukraine. But it also struck at a central myth of Mr Putin’s imperial regime: his claim to have made Crimea Russian.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “Missiles and bridges”
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