Three killed as huge explosion causes key Crimea-Russia road bridge to collapse – as it happened

Blast early on Saturday causes road bridge to collapse and engulfs rail bridge in flames

• Analysis: impact of bridge explosion will be felt all the way to the Kremlin

The parliamentary leader of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's party has stopped short of claiming that Kyiv was responsible for the Kerch bridge explosion but appeared to cast it as a consequence of Moscow's takeover of Crimea and attempts to integrate the peninsula with the Russian mainland.

Russian illegal construction is starting to fall apart and catch fire. The reason is simple: if you build something explosive, then sooner or later it will explode," David Arakhamia, the leader of the Servant of the People party, wrote on Telegram.