Putin inspects a bridge linking Russia and Crimea, two months after an explosion partially destroyed it.

Russian Invasion of Ukraine (2022)
When the bridge opened in 2018, it was a powerful symbol of the connection the Kremlin was attempting to forge between Russia and Crimea, a Ukrainian region illegally annexed by Moscow.

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