Occupiers claim they can repair the Chongar Bridge in a few weeks

The road bridge linking Crimea and Kherson Region was blown up last night. However, the occupiers hope to rebuild it.

This was reported by Ukrayinska Pravda, citing the Russian mass media.

Journalists report that the statement about the complete bridge restoration is attributed to the so-called "minister of transport of Crimea," Nikolai Lukashenko. He believes it will take several weeks to repair it.

If we take into account the full restoration of the bridge structure, the span, which is damaged there, it will take a few weeks at most, because we need to order the appropriate materials, said Lukashenko.

He also said that now the occupants will redirect the traffic flows on the Chongar bridge to the checkpoints of Armyansk and Perekop.

Earlier, Sotsportal reported that an explosion occurred at night in Chongar, which caused the bridge to collapse.