Light traffic has resumed on Russia's only bridge to Crimea, hours after a large blast damaged sections of the route.
According to investigators, the blast on Europe's longest bridge, a symbol of Russia's annexation of the peninsula from Ukraine in 2014, killed three people.
According to Russian officials, the victims were in a nearby car when a lorry blew up.
The railway portion of the bridge, where oil tanks caught fire, appears to have reopened as well.
On Saturday evening, Russia's foreign ministry released a video that appears to show cars using the bridge.
The rail and road crossing was opened in 2018 and is a key supply route for Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
An adviser to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, Mykhailo Podolyak, did not directly claim Ukrainian responsibility but wrote: "Crimea, the bridge, the beginning.
"Everything illegal must be destroyed, everything stolen must be returned to Ukraine, everything occupied by Russia must be expelled."
Ukraine's defence ministry compared the bridge explosion to the sinking of Russia's Moskva missile cruiser in April.
"Two notorious symbols of Russian power in Ukrainian Crimea have gone down," it tweeted. "What's next in line?"
The Ukrainian government itself simply tweeted: "Sick burn."
Russia's foreign ministry said: "The Kyiv regime's reaction towards destruction of civilian infrastructure is a testament to its terrorist nature."
It is hard to exaggerate the significance, and symbolism, of seeing the bridge - which was opened by President Putin - on fire.
Russia has used the bridge to move military equipment, ammunition, and personnel from Russia to battlefields in southern Ukraine.
As such, Ukrainian authorities said it was a legitimate target, as they vow to retake the peninsula.
Any attack on Crimea, where the Russian army has a massive presence, will be seen as another massive humiliation for the Kremlin.

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