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Global News Podcast

Ukraine says it carried out attack on Crimea bridge

Global News Podcast

BBC

Daily News, News

4.38.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Moscow says two people were killed in the attack on Kerch bridge. Also: the Kremlin says a deal allowing Ukraine to export grain through the Black Sea has ended because the conditions have not been met, and local temperature records are broken in southern Europe as heatwave continues.

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0:00.0

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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

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I'm Paul Moss and at 13 hours GMT on Monday 17th of July,

0:24.0

these are our main stories. The bridge which connects Russia to occupied Crimea

0:29.0

has been closed after explosions, two people were killed.

0:33.0

The Kremlin says a deal allowing Ukraine to export grain through the Black Sea has ended

0:39.0

and thousands of people have been moved from their homes on one of Spain's Canary Islands

0:43.0

as emergency services work to contain wildfires.

0:49.0

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with a decline in mental power slowed down.

1:03.0

The Ukrainian military says it carried out the overnight attack on the strategically important

1:07.0

Kirch bridge linking Russia with occupied Crimea.

1:11.0

Moscow also blamed Ukraine, saying the attack killed a civilian couple in a car and injured their daughter.

1:17.0

The bridge is considered by Ukrainians as a symbol of Russian occupation in Crimea,

1:23.0

which Russia annexed in 2014.

1:25.0

Our correspondent Paul Adams told me what Ukraine might hope to achieve from this operation.

1:31.0

If you look at it at the map, you'll see that the Kirch bridge is the only direct link between Russia

1:39.0

and Russian occupied Crimea.

1:43.0

Obviously this is something that the Russians took control of back in 2014

1:47.0

and one of the first things Vladimir Putin did was to commission the construction of a bridge

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