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112.ua: Russia’s Embassy responds to US State Department claim on Kerch Bridge

Published May 16, 2018 at 11:37 am

A vehicle runs down the 19 km road-and-rail Crimean Bridge passing over the Kerch Strait and linking southern Russia to the Crimean peninsula on May 15, 2018, in Kerch, prior to the opening ceremony.Russian President, on May 15 is set to unveil a 19-kilometre-long bridge linking southern Russia to the Crimean peninsula annexed from Ukraine, a highly symbolic project he has personally championed.

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The Embassy of Russia to the US has claimed that Moscow does not intend to ask the permission for the construction of the transport infrastructure as RIA News reported.

‘Washington is predictably dissatisfied. But Crimea is Russia. We will not ask anyone the permission for the construction of the transport infrastructure in the interests of the citizens of the Russian regions’, the message said.