Opening of Kerch Bridge was postponed to December 2019

The opening of the Kerch Bridge has been postponed to December 2019: The opening date of the railway part of the Kerch Bridge, which will connect Crimea to Russia, which started construction after Russia invaded Crimea, has been postponed from December 2018 to December 2019.
Russia to postpone the Kerch Bridge project With the decision of the Russian government published on Thursday, July 7, the opening date of the railway part of the Kerch Bridge, which will connect Crimea to Russia, which started construction after the Russian invasion of Crimea, is December 2018 to December 2019 delayed. In addition, the government decided to transfer the Kerch bridge construction project from banking services to treasury services. It was announced in June that the Russian Stroygazmontage company, which built the bridge, temporarily suspended the construction of the bridge that would connect the occupied Crimea with Russia and cross the Kerch Strait.