{"id":1566443,"date":"2022-07-22T12:24:47","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T16:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1566443"},"modified":"2022-07-22T12:35:09","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T16:35:09","slug":"fact-check-did-ukraine-attack-the-crimean-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-ukraine-attack-the-crimean-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did Ukraine Attack The Crimean Bridge?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-did-ukraine-attack-the-crimean-bridge%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1566443&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2021-02-03T000000Z_773845592_RC20LL9I9103_RTRMADP_3_UKRAINE-CRISIS-RUSSIA-CRIMEA-scaled-e1658426260557.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>A video <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ukrainevsrussiaFiosl\/posts\/3245409745787950\/\"><span>shared on Facebook<\/span><\/a><span> claims Ukrainian forces attacked the Crimean Bridge.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><b>Verdict: False<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There is no evidence to suggest Ukrainian forces have attacked or damaged the Crimean Bridge.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A key bridge in the Kherson region of Ukraine was \u201cbadly damaged\u201d this week by Ukrainian shelling, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/bridge-kherson-region-badly-damaged-by-ukraine-shelling-tass-2022-07-20\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reuters<\/a>. The bridge serves as one of only two routes for Russian forces in the region to be resupplied, <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/ukrainian-forces-strike-key-bridge-russia-occupied-south-87106730\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ABC News<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a Facebook video, viewed over 154,000 times, claims the Ukrainians have attacked another important bridge. \u201cBIG EXPLOSION 5 Minutes Ago! Ukraine Attacks the Crimean bridge \u2013 A Terrible Explosion will kill Russia!\u201d reads the video\u2019s caption. The Crimean Bridge, also known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/the-war-zone\/russia-seems-to-be-preparing-the-vital-kerch-bridge-for-missile-attacks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kerch Strait Bridge<\/a>, connects Russia to Crimea.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cDays after Russians were spotted preparing the Kerch Strait bridge, which connects mainland Russia to Crimea, for missile attacks, statements made by U.S. defense officials signaled that the prized piece of Russian infrastructure is a fair target in their minds,\u201d an automated voice states in the video. The video continues to describe the ongoing war efforts in Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The video\u2019s caption is baseless. <\/span><span>Neither the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mil.gov.ua\/en\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ukrainian Ministry of Defense<\/a> nor the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/search.usa.gov\/search?query=Crimean%20Bridge&#038;affiliate=defensegov&#038;utf8=%26%23x2713%3B\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Department of Defense<\/a> has issued any statement about the Russian bridge being hit or destroyed by a Ukrainian attack. There are likewise no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Ukraine+Attacks+the+Crimean+bridge&#038;source=lnms&#038;tbm=nws&#038;sa=X&#038;ved=2ahUKEwimm4zQm4r5AhU8FFkFHSfdDvYQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&#038;cshid=1658414831181188&#038;biw=1536&#038;bih=722&#038;dpr=1.25\">credible news reports<\/a> about the bridge being attacked or destroyed.\u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/07\/20\/fact-check-ukraine-russia-invasion-kherson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Did Ukraine Defeat The Russians In Kherson?)<\/a><\/strong><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The post\u2019s video does not show any footage or photos of the alleged attack. Rather, it shows a slideshow of unrelated pictures of warships and missiles. It provides no additional evidence to support the claim made in the post\u2019s caption.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>While there is no evidence the bridge in Crimea was attacked, Russian forces have reportedly been preparing for a potential missile attack on the bridge by deploying decoy barges and using smoke to obscure it, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/davidaxe\/2022\/07\/06\/the-russians-scramble-to-protect-a-juicy-target-the-bridge-connecting-russia-to-the-crimean-peninsula\/?sh=1821da3536a7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forbes<\/a>. Ukrainian general Dmitry Marchenko <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/world\/1465651\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> in June that the bridge is \u201ctarget number one for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The video&#8217;s caption is baseless<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":613,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1566443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1566443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1566443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1566443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1566443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}