Queues of cars appeared at the entrance to the Crimean Bridge, which connects the Russian continent with the annexed Crimean Peninsula, the Telegram channel “Crimea Bridge: Operational Information” reported on the morning of June 26.
As of 10:00 Moscow time, there were 980 vehicles in line for manual inspection from Taman, and 1,780 from Kerch. The waiting time for inspection is three to four hours.
A large queue began to form at night when the Crimean Bridge was temporarily closed – the crossing was closed from midnight until six in the morning. The bridge was closed amid a Ukrainian drone attack on Crimea on the night of June 26.
In the earlier days on the bridge too I grew up Several kilometers of traffic jams, where most of the queues are occupied by cars departing from Crimea.
In recent days, electricity was cut off (1, 2) in the annexed Crimean Peninsula and Sevastopol due to Ukrainian attacks. Since the end of May, the fuel crisis in Crimea has continued; Fuel sales on the peninsula stopped. Against this background, admission to children’s camps in Crimea has been suspended until the end of the summer.
Traffic on the Qurum Bridge is regularly stopped, but rarely for several hours. The reasons for the closure are usually not given, but it is assumed that this happened during the attacks on the bridge.