In the early morning of the 8th local time, on the railway across the Kerch Strait Bridge, a fuel-loaded train tanker car caught fire, and many freight cars were damaged. The Crimea Bridge can pass 40,000 cars a day and transport 14 million passengers and 13 million tons of cargo

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Hello everyone, continue to pay attention to the Crimea Bridge explosion

In the morning of the 8th local time, on the railway across Kerch Strait (also known as Crimea Bridge ), a fuel-loaded train oil tanker carriage caught fire, and many freight cars were damaged. Currently, railway and road traffic on the bridge is temporarily interrupted. Shipping in Kerch Strait is normal. The accident rescue investigation has begun.

In addition, Russian President Putin ordered the establishment of a government committee on the emergency incident on the Crimea Bridge.

Just now, Ukraine responded.

Advisor Podolac, director of the Ukrainian Presidential Office, said on the 8th that the Crimea Bridge incident is just the beginning and all illegal things will be destroyed.

However, he did not directly admit that Ukraine was responsible for the explosion.

In response, the Russian Satellite News Agency interpreted that this was an advisor to the Ukrainian Presidential Office who acknowledged that Ukraine was responsible for the terrorist attack on the Crimea Bridge.

In addition, Ukrainian Post-Truth quoted anonymous sources as saying that the blow-up of the Kerch Strait Bridge was a special operation of the Ukrainian National Security Agency. The Ukrainian National Security Bureau has not issued any statement on this.

According to the Russian Satellite News Agency, the Russian National Counter-Terrorism Commission issued a statement on October 8, revealing details of the fire on the Crimea Bridge that day, saying that the truck explosion caused the train oil tank on the bridge to be ignited. The statement said that at 6:7 a.m. on the 8th, a truck from the Taman Peninsula in Krasnodar Krai exploded at the car traffic on the Crimea Bridge, igniting a train heading to Crimea Peninsula, and seven oil tanks on the train caught fire. The bridge between the two car ferries of the bridge collapsed partially. The arch above the land portion of the bridge was undamaged.

According to the " Guardian ", the road bridge of the Crimea Bridge was opened to traffic in 2018 and the railway bridge was opened to traffic in 2019. This bridge is highly symbolic to Russia and is also an important supply channel for the Russian army in Crimea and other areas in southern Ukraine controlled by Russia.

The Crimea Bridge can pass 40,000 cars a day, transporting 14 million passengers and 13 million tons of cargo each year. According to Russian officials, its opening claims mark the physical “unification” between Crimea and the Russian mainland.

Why did Ukraine attack this bridge?

On March 16, 2014, Crimea and Sevastopol held a referendum, and more than 90% of the voters agreed to leave Ukraine and join Russia. On March 18 of that year, Putin signed a treaty with representatives from both places, allowing Crimea and Sevastopol to join the Russian Federation as federal entities. Ukraine does not recognize the above referendum and opposes the merger of Crimea and Sevastopol into Russia, so the West imposes economic sanctions on Russia.

The bridge started in February 2016 is a landmark project that Putin focuses on supervising construction. The bridge was undertaken by construction giant Arkady Rotenberg. The construction cost is nearly US$4 billion and is 19 kilometers long. It will connect the Crimean Peninsula with Russia. After completion, it will be the longest road and railway dual-purpose bridge on the European continent. On the day of the launch of

, Putin drove an Kamas truck and led a convoy of more than 30 trucks, lifting cranes, cement truck and oil tankers. From the Taman Peninsula of the bridge in the Krasnodar Krai to Kerch City, the other side of the Crimean Peninsula, the entire journey took 16 minutes.

After the conflict broke out between Russia and Ukraine, the Ukrainian army repeatedly claimed that it planned to destroy the bridge. On June 15, Ukrainian Major General Dmitry Marchenko said in an interview with Ukrainian media that the Ukrainian army plans to destroy the Crimea Bridge, Europe's longest bridge, and called the bridge the "number one target" of the Ukrainian army.

On April 21, according to the Ukrainian National News Agency, Ukrainian National Security and Defense Commission Secretary Danilov claimed in an interview on the 21st that Ukrainian side does not rule out an attack on the Crimea Bridge. Russia responded at the time that the move was a terror statement.

Russian State Duma representative Oleg Morozov said that the incident was an act of "declaration of war". "An undisguised terrorism war is being launched against us." Morozov, from the United Russia Party, told Russian News Agency, . "In addition, the long-declared attack on the Crimean Bridge (Ukraine) is no longer just a challenge, but a declaration of war without rules." Morozov said that if there is no "full reaction", such incidents will occur more frequently.

At present, Russian Vice Prime Minister Husnulin will fly to Crimea as soon as possible to personally inspect the damage to the Crimea Bridge and decide on the scene how to restore the bridge operation in the shortest time.

China responded to the US implementing new export controls on chips:

maliciously blocked and suppressed Chinese companies in order to maintain technological hegemony. On the 8th, Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao Ning presided over a regular press conference. AFP reporter asked questions about the US Department of Commerce’s announcement to implement new export controls on chips. Mao Ning responded that the United States abused export control measures to maliciously block and suppress Chinese companies in order to maintain technological hegemony. This practice deviates from the principle of fair competition and violates international economic and trade rules, which not only harms the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese companies, but also affects the rights and interests of American companies.

Mao Ning said that this practice hinders international scientific and technological exchanges and economic and trade cooperation, and will have an impact on the stability of the global industrial chain and supply chain and the recovery of the world economy. The US politicization, instrumentalization and weaponization of science and technology and economic and trade issues cannot stop China's development, but will only block itself and backfire itself.

Previously, the U.S. government included 31 Chinese companies, research institutions and other groups on the so-called "unverified list" on the 7th, limiting their ability to obtain certain regulated U.S. semiconductor technology.

Reuters quoted sources as saying that the new restrictions target two chip manufacturers in China, one is to produce DRAM chips that hold information from applications when the system is used, and the other is to produce NAND flash chips for data and file storage. If a U.S. supplier sells cutting-edge production equipment to Chinese local chip manufacturers to produce DRAM chips of 18 nanometers or less, NAND flash chips of 128 layers or more, and logic chips of 14 nanometers or less, they must apply for a license and will be subject to strict scrutiny. Some experts say that once these new restrictions are released, it will mark the first time that the United States has suppressed the memory chip , which has no special military use, produced by China through export controls, and this also represents the United States' renewed expansion of the so-called "national security" concept. Reuters said that China's Changjiang Storage Technology Co., Ltd. and Changxin Storage Technology Co., Ltd. will be affected as a result.