Kerch in a sentence

A Russian tanker under the the Kerch bridge blocks the passage to the Kerch Strait near Kerch, Crimea, on Nov. 25, 2018.

By 1900, Kerch was connected to a railroad system, and the fairway of Kerch Strait was deepened and widened.

Last month, in another blow to Putin, 's newest ship Askold was destroyed in Kerch before it became operational.

Now Ukrainian forces are getting close to the narrow isthmus that connects Crimean to the mainland and the other access point, the Kerch Strait bridge in southeastern Crimea was also under constant attack.

Russia did not start large-scale missile strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure until after the truck bombing of the Kerch Bridge, which connects Crimea to the Russian mainland.

Tellingly, Ukraine has yet to strike the Kerch Bridge using the Storm Shadow.

The Russian Defense Ministry said late Saturday that Ukrainian forces fired 15 cruise missiles at the Zaliv shipyard in Kerch, with at least two striking a ship and the shipyard.

The tanker was hit at around 11:20 pm (2020 GMT) on Friday south of the Kerch Strait, Russia's Federal Agency for Sea and Inland Water Transport said.

This satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows damage to the Kerch Bridge, in October 2022.

Ukraine's armed forces said they hit marine and port infrastructure at a factory in the port city of Kerch in Russian-occupied Crimea on Saturday.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called the Kerch Bridge, which connects occupied Crimea to Russia, "the road that fuels the war with ammunition" while speaking to the Aspen Security Forum.

With the other key rail link - the one across the Kerch Bridge - the target of repeated Ukrainian attacks since last October, Mr Kuzan says Russia is transporting 70% of its supplies along the M-14 highway, which runs closer to the coast.

Such weaponry would help that country strike ’s logistics depots and supply lines, such as the Kerch Strait Bridge that links Crimea to Russia proper.

The attack happened near the Kerch Strait, off the Crimean peninsula that Moscow annexed in 2014.

The crucial Kerch bridge was temporarily closed overnight and the Russian Defence Ministry has not as yet made any comments.

The Ukrainian military intelligence agency said a special unit called Group 13 had fired Magura V5 maritime drones at the near the Kerch Strait, which connects the Sea of Azov to the Black Sea.

He added that his naval experience has also been beneficial on occasion, such as after a recent security incident in the Black Sea/Kerch Strait, an area he is familiar with from naval deployments.

Analysis of the recent Kerch Strait incident on the eurointegration.com website.

For that reason, Oleynik calls Russia’s actions at the Kerch Strait a blockade designed to specifically destabilize the economic situation in Mariupol.

New U.S. and European sanctions had been imposed even before the two Ukrainian gunboats and tugboat were seized near the Kerch Strait on Nov. 25, and Shevchenko hopes the incident and elections would prompt Canada to take follow suit.