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		</div><p>Russian President Vladimir Putin has tried to boost Russian morale by driving across a bridge to Crimea that a truck bomb damaged in October.</p>
<p>He took the wheel of a Mercedes to drive across the bridge linking Russia’s mainland with the peninsula, which Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014.</p>
<p>Like other western car makers, Mercedes halted sales of vehicles to Russia and stopped production at its assembly factory near Moscow after the start of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine.</p>
<p>Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Mr Putin did not try to make a political point by driving the Mercedes and not a Russian-made Auris sedan, saying the president just used an available car.</p>
<p>While driving, Mr Putin discussed the repairs of the Crimean Bridge with Marat Khusnullin, a deputy prime minister in charge of the project, an exchange broadcast by Russian television.</p>
<p>The president also spoke to workers involved in restoring the 12-mile bridge, which has been the main conduit for ferrying supplies to Crimea, which has served as a key base for Russian military operations in Ukraine.</p>
<figure id="attachment_176710" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-176710" style="width: 793px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/F1B4F5F0-B4C9-485A-81C2-0C50E5C74B75.jpeg" alt="" width="793" height="530" class="size-full wp-image-176710" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-176710" class="wp-caption-text">The bridge was damaged by a truck bomb attack in October</figcaption></figure>
<p>In view of Ukrainian threats to launch new attacks on the bridge, Mr Putin emphasised the need to build a motorway along the Sea of Azov coast to link Crimea with regions in southern Russia, the Kremlin said.</p>
<p>The truck bomb attack on October 8 disrupted travel on one of the two lanes of the bridge.</p>
<p>Russia blamed the attack on Ukrainian military intelligence and responded with several waves of strikes on Ukraine’s energy facilities and other key infrastructure.</p>
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