Russia hands life sentences to 8 people convicted for attack on key bridge to Crimea

All of the defendants denied the charges and insisted they didn’t know the truck carried explosives, according to Russian media reports. AP AP —

A court in Russia on Thursday convicted eight people on terrorism charges over an attack on a bridge linking Russia to illegally Moscow-annexed Crimea that is a key supply route for Kremlin forces in the war with Ukraine.

The court sentenced all of the defendants to life in prison.

The October 2022 attack on the bridge came when a truck bomb blew up two of its sections and required months of repairs. The blast killed the truck driver and four other people in a car nearby. Moscow decried the attack as an act of terrorism and retaliated by bombarding Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure, targeting the country’s power grid over the win