05:50, 19 August 2025

Traffic on the Crimean Bridge has resumed without traffic jams

Crimean Bridge. Photo from Sergey Aksenov's Telegram channel

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There are no queues at the entrances to the Crimean Bridge either from the Crimean or Kuban side, according to motorists, the inspection takes 10-15 minutes.

As "Kavkazsky Uzel" wrote, on August 18, security forces discovered an explosive device in a car that arrived from Georgia. According to the FSB, the car was supposed to go to Krasnodar Krai, it was planned to be used for the explosion on the Crimean Bridge. Against the backdrop of this information, the queue in the Krasnodar Territory reached 1,910 cars during the day, then decreased to 1,025 cars.

On July 17, 2023, the Crimean Bridge was attacked by Ukrainian drones, one span was destroyed, another was damaged. Traffic on the bridge was restored only on November 1 of the same year.

According to data as of 05:00 Moscow time today, August 19, there are no queues at the approaches to the Crimean Bridge from either Kerch or Taman, according to data published in the telegram channel "Crimean Bridge: Operational Information".

Subscribers to the "Crimean Bridge. Chat" community confirmed that there are no queues for manual inspection at the entrance. "At 3.50 we lined up for inspection, at 04.05 we entered the bridge from the Kerch side," Elena wrote.

"There is no traffic jam from Crimea, 3.20 straight to inspection, 10 minutes and the Crimean Bridge," Anastasia confirms.

"Caucasian Knot" also wrote that on October 8, 2022, an explosion occurred on the Crimean Bridge, two spans collapsed. Vladimir Putin called the incident a terrorist attack, the FSB said that the organizer of the terrorist attack was the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. Traffic on the bridge was resumed a month later.

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