Russian diplomats respond to US statement on Crimea bridge
Russia will not ask anyone for permission to build transport infrastructure for the benefit of its own people, the Russian Embassy in the US said in response to the US State Department's comments on the opening of the Crimean bridge.
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"Washington will certainly not be pleased. But Crimea is Russia's. We will not ask anyone's opinion on building transport infrastructure for the benefit of people in Russian regions" - quoted from the comment of the Russian Foreign Ministry posted on Facebook. Previously, the US State Department stated that the inauguration of the Crimean bridge made this country worried.
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According to the official representative of the Ministry, Ms. Heather Nauert, "the construction of this bridge will certainly affect the supply of goods by sea, and thus people, Crimea and Ukraine." She added that the construction of the bridge not only "strengthens Russia's aggression and occupation of Crimea, but also affects maritime transport."
President Putin officially opened the motorway on the bridge over the Kerch Strait on May 15. The head of state drove a Kamaz from Krasnodar to Kerch in just over 15 minutes.
