In a blink of an eye, this year is the 22nd year that Putin has taken charge of Russia.
Time is a pig-killing knife, and time left traces on Putin's body - the hairline is getting higher and higher, and the wrinkles on the forehead are becoming more and more obvious.
must admit that Putin is no longer the young man he used to be.
On October 7, Putin celebrated his 70th birthday. In traditional Chinese culture, 70 years old is called "70s". According to the Kremlin release schedule, Putin spent his 70th birthday like this: signing some relevant laws, participating in the CIS country leaders, and talking on the phone with Turkish President Erdogan.
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Yes, there is no arrangement for celebrating your birthday, at least not in the official arrangements announced by Kerber.
You should know that when Putin celebrated his 67th birthday, he drove the off-road vehicle with Russian Defense Minister Shoigu, and enjoyed the scenery in the Siberian primeval forest and relaxed.
Even last year, when the epidemic situation in Russia was severe, although Putin was working on his birthday, the Kremlin added at least to the arrangement of the day: " birthday night is Putin's private time, and relatives and friends wish him a happy birthday. "
Putin is getting older, but his birthday is getting lower and lower, which is related to the increasing challenges facing Russia to a certain extent. Against the backdrop of the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, Putin’s 70th birthday is the most low-key birthday I have ever had in recent years.
What Putin did not expect was that something happened to Crimea just after his birthday.
On the afternoon of October 8, Beijing time, the Russian National Counter-Terrorism Commission issued a statement saying that a truck from the direction of the Okrasnodar Krai suddenly exploded while driving on the Crimea Bridge and ignited a train heading to the Crimea Peninsula. caused 7 oil tanks on the train to catch fire.
On-site surveillance video shows that the explosion caused a fire, passing vehicles were buried in the sea of fire, and then the axle body shook violently.
explosion caused part of the bridge deck of the Crimea Bridge to collapse, and two car ferries were damaged, but the arch above the land part of the bridge was not damaged.
Railway and road traffic on the bridge has been temporarily interrupted , Kerch Strait shipping traffic is normal, the fire list has been towed, and the accident has not caused any casualties.
Putin has ordered the establishment of a government committee to thoroughly investigate the cause of the accident.
The strategic significance of the Crimea Bridge is extremely important. The bridge is also known as Kerch Strait Bridge . It spans the Kerch Strait and connects Russia's mainland and the Crimean Peninsula. It has a total length of 19 kilometers. is the largest bridge in Europe .
After the Crimean crisis in 2014, Russia built the bridge in just 3 years.
With this bridge, Russia continuously transports troops and supplies directly to the Crimean Peninsula, and forms an "iron triangle" along the coast of Azov Sea . In a sense, the Azov Sea has become Russia's "inner lake" .
Because of the important strategic position of the Crimea Bridge, at the completion and opening ceremony in 2018, Putin drove his truck past the bridge.
0 The Crimea Bridge was bombed, and the question people are most concerned about is naturally "who did it". Honestly, I don't know either, but Ukraine's response is worth pondering. After the
accident, the Ukrainian Air Force posted on social media, saying, "In the morning, an tanker caught fire on the Crimea Bridge. Some roads were destroyed! Everything will belong to Ukraine!"
Ukraine's presidential office responded more explicitly.
Advisor Podolak, director of the Ukrainian Presidential Office, said that the Crimea Bridge incident is "just the beginning". All illegal things will be destroyed, all stolen things will be returned to Ukraine, and all Russian occupation will be expelled.
Ukraine neither admits that it did it itself nor denies it, which is worth chewing.In addition, A few months ago, Ukraine repeatedly claimed to blow up of the Crimean Bridge. Now the bridge has been really blown up, and Ukraine is naturally the most suspected.
From the earlier sunk of the cruiser "Moscow" to the recent explosion of the Nord Stream pipeline, to the today's explosion of the Crimea Bridge, a series of signs indicate that the Russian-Ukrainian conflict is gradually becoming out of control.
Ukraine said the Crimea Bridge incident was "just the beginning", which means that Ukraine might have greater military operations.
And swallowing anger has never been the Russian style, nor the Putin style. What's more, the one that was bombed this time was the strategically significant Crimea Bridge. How will Russia respond next makes people feel a little chill when they think about it.
