Ukraine's SBU claims responsibility for last year's Crimea bridge blast

FILE PHOTO: A warship sails next to the Kerch bridge after an explosion destroyed part of it, in the Kerch Strait, Crimea, October 8, 2022. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo

KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine's domestic intelligence agency claimed responsibility for the first time on Wednesday for a sabotage operation that badly damaged the Russian-made Kerch Bridge linking occupied Crimea with Russia last October.

Vasyl Malyuk, the head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), said his agency was behind the attack, speaking in comments shown on television as he presented a commemorative postage stamp marking wartime special forces operations.