good morning, modern lifestyles and the mediterranean meeting people are hearing their dreams. are many to me journey this week on d, w ah, ah, this is dw news live from berlin brush as a bridge to crimea has partially collapsed after a massive explosion. moscow says 3 people were killed in the blast, which has caught the vital link between the russian mainland and the legally an excellent incident vice after the ukrainian precedents call said the beginning,

but stopped short of calling it claiming responsibility to me. well, you green continues to push back ration forces, but departing troops leave behind another grim reminder of the outpatient ingredients, discover hundreds of forties in the eastern town of lima and canada, boston leaders of the rounds revolutionary god and rome sanctions. the government says the measures were raised pres, around by its crackdown mass protest after the death of a woman in police custody. ah, i am eddie mike, a junior and you are welcome to the program. the bridge connect in crimea to russia has partially collapsed after being hit by a major explosion. it's a key rude on the rail link from the russian mainland to the annex the crimean peninsula. russian authorities are blaming the blast on the truck bumping and says

that 3 people were killed. a massive explosion lights up the pre dawn sky over the straight between russia and crimea. social media footage appears to show the moment of detonation, which russian authorities say was caused by a truck bomb. opened bloody to land, according to preliminary information this morning, a truck was blown up on the motorway section of the crimean bridge. from the side of the time on peninsula causing 7 fuel tanks of the train heading towards the crimean peninsula to catch fire. as a result to spans of the road bridge partially collapsed, the my bill for i loot that. officials closed the road bridge and railway to traffic while they assess the damage. while ukraine has not claimed responsibility, many military analysts are already assuming they're behind the attack. keith has

repeatedly threatened to strike the crimean bridge, which is the only direct road and rail link between russia and crimea, the territory it illegally annexed in 2014. it's railway is a key route for troops and material to the front lines of russia's war and ukraine . but it also carries symbolic value. vladimir putin ordered its construction after season crimea, and inaugurated its opening behind the wheel of a truck. one analyst says the attack, which came a day after putin's 70th birthday, is likely to turn up the heat on the russian president back home. this bridge has peterson's name leveretts. it's the symbolism of his projects. and this comes at a time where there is already been lots of factions, maneuvering in moscow, blaming the military, blaming the vog degree, blaming puts in the blame game started. and the such a symbolic,

it's hot by the ukrainians is any going to accelerate that? ukrainian officials celebrated the attack on line and adviser to the ukrainian president, wrote crimea the bridge, the beginning. everything illegal must be destroyed. everything stolen must be returned to ukraine. everything occupied by russia must be expelled with an image of the collapsed bridge. while the official twitter account of the ukrainian government simply commented sick, bern, rushes foreign ministry said the social media post revealed ukraine's quote, terrorist nature russian installed officials and crimea had said the damage would be quickly repaired. did of you correspondence, matthew, belinda, who is now in ukraine city of miracle, i eve told us more about ukraine's official reaction to the incident.

yeah, ukrainian officials haven't said much about it. of course, there's a lot of speculation on how and by whom this was conducted this attack, whether it was which seems a little at the 2 most people at the moment, the most likely version by a truck loaded with explosives or whether it was some kind of or asked try rockets most probably. um, but the ukranian officials haven't said much about it that there was a tweet by a presidential advisor, me hi. lo for the jak will kind of own did say saying that every territory must be returned. and this was a legitimate target as it was in the legal construction. but there's not much more than that. there's also been speculation about ukraine secret service, which has denied any on me. okay, now are we from the officials, you've been talking to other ukrainians? what have they been saying?

well, we've just been somewhere outside of town, where old people, they were working in their gardens and staying in these dutch as these summer houses. and they were saying they were celebrating today. and that's pretty much the mood all across the country. the strike has been expected. the ukrainian postal service has even issued a sam about destroyed ridge, of course, not with pictures from today, but with drawings. and that they, the government has said several times that they consider this a legitimate target. so was more a question of when and how and where they would be possible. then whether they would attempted is seen as a legitimate target and the whole of the country, and then lots of meet on the internet celebrating this means, for example, showing a president lensky grilling meet skew is over the burning bridge, or a high mass, a rocket launcher, swimming on the sea, on a, on a, on a rubber boat next to the bridge. all kinds of, i mean,

celebrating this. okay. it'll be correspondence with yes. belinda reporting from the queen's at city of mich alive. thank you. that. let's get more on the i ration perspective with our rashana is constantine. again in veiled is hello constantine. now the blast to please just one day after put in spirit day. how big of a political blue is this for him? well, it is a very good damage jane image to see this burning bread ah, a few hours after within 70 if anniversary ended bots. look, russia is not a democracy. and no one's going to mock futon on television. then of, there's not going to be an opposition time when they'll question time in parliament, people asking questions. oh, why? the thought is that love prevent destruction of the bridge, which leads as you rightly sent from russia to illegally occupied crimea,

up. so it is not going to be a big public problem boots because it's going to be more, oh, oh, is ations of ukraine of terrorism? stuff like that as the russian foreign ministry already did. but of course, if you consider what people at the top will be thinking, of course they will be thinking, look, this is a blow. this is someone who said that this is a symbol. someone who opened this bridge, someone who made a big point over big case, also linking rock, the grimy of saying is going to be forever. so i think it's rather showing again to the elite of russia, that putin is not fully in control. that's the significance. oh, i mostly we ever had how i ration officials have reacted to those spots out. what. how bout about rations saw on the ground a holiday reacting to the blast? well, i think the population will evidently learn about it. and quite

a few people who really think that the crimea is legally russian will be enraged by this kind of a callous acts by ukrainians growth and quote a. but i suppose that more than one people ever since the mobilization was an out on the 25th 7th december. realize this is real war, this is not some kind of tv show which you're just to watch every evening. if i suppose that is going to add to realization that this is an old old war, but then again eddy, it will not lead to revolution to morrow to a crowd storming the gramlin then saying, ah, down the boot, ah, these things take a lot of time to germinate in russia, if ever, oh, if ever, it also has a thing that the deputy chair of the security council of the russian federation dmitri amendment to have previously issued a warning about such an attack. while the attack has happened,

what is likely to be their response from russia? yeah, people are asking this question including, by the way, lots of people on ukrainian social media, whether putting this finally going to escalate. um, let me put it like that. i do not think that this warren's ah, some kind of a nuclear demonstration. i don't think that we can will go for that. but what i think could happen, you could have more shelling of. ah, let us say, ah, major ukrainian cit is ah, we can see more of a prussia on peaceful populations in ukraine, more of demonstrative atrocities. this could be the thing that, of which i could employ just as usual, hair tactics. but if you, i mean everyone's asking now about the possibility of are over kind of nuclear strike or nuclear demonstration. rather, i personally made the wrong, i do not think that puts in. we'll see even this symbolic act, highly symbolic,

beg warranty, nuclear as well. okay, did abuse rashana list constantine, i get. thank you. i now, i asked frank led bitch, a military analyst for his take on russia, blaming the incident on the track, bumping. his inquiry that because the putin has ordered, we'll be looking in blue, looking into all this in some detail. my own view is that there's probably a little bit more to it than a truck. i doubt it was a mess. all you crazy. don't have massage with that range. demolition experts of course spend their lives of this kind of operation. this is a dream for military saboteurs. i have a suspicion to maybe something of a, maybe a submersible involved or perhaps prelate explosives. but we'll see. we'll see what, what comes out of this as i say the russians. they say, here's a truck and that's probably like to remain their story. okay, here's the thing. do you green hasn't taken any direct responsibility,

but it's official. celebrate that the incident or light, if it actually was you green. why wouldn't be officially claimed responsibility for the same reason that they avoid claiming direct responsibility for attack, such as bel garad and other ammunition dump sand installations inside russia. over the last 7 or 8 months, let's not forget, this is whatever the russians say it is a key part of russian infrastructure. but look, there had been leaks as mathias said, everybody knows who did it. there's no doubt about it of mothers formerly announced or not. this was a ukrainian operational. you said a significant part of russia's infrastructure. tell us how significant is this bridge? most of russia's military supplies heading towards the front. that mathias was on a mic alive. curse on nova cock of a comes through over that bridge is 36000 tons a day of material people and fuel cross that bridge. and it's going to get said

that the, the function of the bridge simply cannot be replaced. what the russians will have to do now is use fairies. they have got some military transport there to replace some of the military carrying capability. but it simply won't come near to the, the capacity the bridge. their big problem now is that a lot of the traffic will come down through the town of multiple, which is just northwest, actually my alpo. and that puts, it puts the supplies to crimea right within the range of, of ukrainian artillery who can exercise. and let's say the influence over that. so it's a vital artery into the crimea. i mean, russia, it's obviously not happy about her. despite a glance at enzo walked called video response to this. yes, eddie, that's, that's the, that's the key question here. there's a lot of quite understandable jubilation about this, but it won't go unanswered. now,

this is the 1st significant strike all on a russian territorial key infrastructure item of key infrastructure. it's outside you credit territory from the russian perspective course from the credit perspective. it isn't what we saw last week with respect to the pipes in the north sea. but the russians indicated a capability. that's my analysis to be able to strike outside their territories. of course, we know they can, and i have a suspicion that's where the response may come, not within ukraine itself, but outside you, craig, and not might be a, another step along the escalator path that we're already on. we'll have to wait and see how that develops there, but thank you very much. frank led bitch, military analyst for your time. so i said it ukrainian authority say we have found $200.00 individual graves and a mass grave in the eastern city of lyman. the military governor of the juniors region has posted photos of the graves on line. the governor says estimations have

already begun fully see the exact number of bodies in the mass. grievous still unknown. officials have also not yet confirmed if the dead at civilians or ukrainian soldiers. russian troops retreated from the area last weekend. though ukraine has re captured thousands of square kilometers and it's counter offensive. moscow's forces asked launch an assault of the own. a town of fact note has been under intense rash and shelling for weeks. residents are trying to flee to safety, but that is proven difficult. blown up to hinder, the advancing russians. now back. moot residents are forced to make a difficult journey across what's left of this bridge? some like this pensioner on her way home need help from their neighbors. it's a little easier for the able bodied, but no less dangerous. as explosions ring out not far away. flores and i feel the main problem.