Crimean Bridge blast SBU's published footage

Jun 3, 2025

The SBU-branded excerpt shows a fixed view of bridge supports before an explosion throws water and dark smoke beside a pier. It continues through the immediate aftermath, then ends with the SBU's closing slate. There is no spoken report or explanatory caption. The video alone supplies no explosive quantity, casualty assessment, measurement of structural damage or evidence about subsequent traffic.

On June 3 the SBU announced an underwater operation against a Crimean Bridge support. TSN relays its claim of 1,100 kilograms of explosives and describes support and roadway damage, while qualifying reports of a later second explosion and closure. Vremya calls the attack unsuccessful, asserts the bridge remains secure and fully operational, and shows evening traffic after two stoppages. Its correspondent says vehicles are moving in both directions without queues. These conflicting assessments remain attributed: resumed traffic does not independently settle structural damage, and the retrieved accounts do not establish a separate second explosion. The separately retrieved SBU release (show 511) supplies a direct, speechless view of the setup, detonation beside a pier and immediate aftermath. Kadchenko's complete report places the two traffic pauses at 06:00–09:00 and from 15:42 for over two hours, with resumed traffic at his stated 18:56 recording time. The footage and traffic observations establish no independent measurement of underwater damage.