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WRAPUP 3-Russia says Ukrainian attack on Crimea Bridge kills two, orphaned daughter injured
* Two parents dead, girl injured * Putin's prestige project damaged again * Russia blames Ukrainian security forces * Ukrainian media says Ukraine organised attack * Russian lawmaker: no grain deal after attack (Recasts headline and lead) KERCH, Crimea, July 17 (Reuters) - Two people were killed and their daughter was wounded on Monday in what Russia said was an Ukrainian attack on the Crimean Bridge, an artery for Russian troops fighting in Ukraine and a prestige project personally opened by President Vladimir Putin.
Reuters | Moscow | Updated: 17-07-2023 13:10 IST | Created: 17-07-2023 12:57 IST
- Country:
- Russian Federation
"...Unverified imagery showed a section of road on the bridge had split and listing to one side with metal barriers buckled. Dash cam footage showed drivers braking sharply shortly after the incident. Traffic was halted. Russian officials said Ukraine was behind what they called a "terrorist" attack on the bridge - on the same day that Putin must decide whether or not to extend a UN-brokered deal that allows the export of
grain via the Black Sea .
grain via the Black Sea .
- The Ukrainian military suggested the attack could be some kind of provocation by Russia itself but Ukrainian media cited unidentified sources as saying that Ukraine's Security Service was behind the incident.
- The parents of a girl were killed and their daughter was injured in a passenger car. The girl was being treated in intensive care.
- Russian prosecutors said Ukrainian security services were behind the attack - which they cast as terrorism. Russia blamed Ukraine for an attack on the bridge last October, saying it was organised by Ukrainian military intelligence and its director, Kyrylo Budanov. Ukraine admitted only indirectly to the attack months later.
GRAIN AND WAR
It was not immediately clear what the incident on the bridge would mean for the U.N.-brokered deal that allows the safe Black Sea export of Ukrainian grain. Ukraine and Russia are among the world's top grain exporters. The U.N. deal is due to expire on Monday, with the last ship to travel under the deal leaving the port of Odesa early on Sunday, according to a Reuters witness and MarineTraffic.com.
It was not immediately clear what the incident on the bridge would mean for the U.N.-brokered deal that allows the safe Black Sea export of Ukrainian grain. Ukraine and Russia are among the world's top grain exporters. The U.N. deal is due to expire on Monday, with the last ship to travel under the deal leaving the port of Odesa early on Sunday, according to a Reuters witness and MarineTraffic.com.
- Sergei Mironov, leader of the A Just Russia party in Russia's parliament, said Moscow should respond by destroying Ukrainian infrastructure. "That is what we need to do, and not discuss a grain deal that helps Kyiv's rulers and their Western masters line their pockets. There can be no grain deal after another terrorist attack," he said on Telegram. . ."
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Russia halts grain deal after blaming Ukraine for attacks on Crimea Bridge
KERCH, Crimea (Reuters) - Russia said on Monday that it had halted participation in a landmark UN-brokered deal which allowed Ukrainian grain to be exported through the Black Sea just hours after Moscow said Ukraine had attacked the Crimean Bridge.
Two people were killed and their daughter was wounded in what Russia cast as a terrorist attack on a major artery for Russian troops fighting in Ukraine and a prestige project personally opened by President Vladimir Putin.
Blasts were reported before dawn on the 19-km (12-mile) road and rail bridge linking Russia to Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
The Kremlin said the halting of the agreement, brokered by the United Nations and Turkey to combat a global food crisis worsened by Russia's invasion of its neighbour, had nothing to do with the bridge attack.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the parts of the Black Sea grain deal package relating to Russia were not fulfilled and therefore it was ceasing effect.
The deal, he said, had ceased to be valid today and was halted. Russia, he said, would return to the deal once the conditions relating to Russia were fulfilled.
The deal was due to expire on Monday.
The Ukrainian military suggested the attack could be some kind of provocation by Russia itself but Ukrainian media cited unidentified sources as saying that Ukraine's Security Service was behind the incident.
(Reporting by Lidia Kelly in Melbourne and Guy Faulconbridge in Moscow; Editing by Nick Macfie, William Maclean)
Two people were killed and their daughter was wounded in what Russia cast as a terrorist attack on a major artery for Russian troops fighting in Ukraine and a prestige project personally opened by President Vladimir Putin.
Blasts were reported before dawn on the 19-km (12-mile) road and rail bridge linking Russia to Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
The Kremlin said the halting of the agreement, brokered by the United Nations and Turkey to combat a global food crisis worsened by Russia's invasion of its neighbour, had nothing to do with the bridge attack.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the parts of the Black Sea grain deal package relating to Russia were not fulfilled and therefore it was ceasing effect.
The deal, he said, had ceased to be valid today and was halted. Russia, he said, would return to the deal once the conditions relating to Russia were fulfilled.
The deal was due to expire on Monday.
The Ukrainian military suggested the attack could be some kind of provocation by Russia itself but Ukrainian media cited unidentified sources as saying that Ukraine's Security Service was behind the incident.
(Reporting by Lidia Kelly in Melbourne and Guy Faulconbridge in Moscow; Editing by Nick Macfie, William Maclean)
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