Russia’s terror strikes fail to do much damage to Ukraine

stands for something. The 19km (12 mile)-long Kerch Bridge was meant to cement Vladimir Putin’s seizure of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 by joining the peninsula to Russia. On October 8th a massive explosion blew out one of its carriageways and crippled one of its rail-tracks. Most analysts pinned the bombing on Ukraine’s special forces. The attack will hamper Russian military logistics in occupied Ukraine. But it also struck at a central myth of Mr Putin’s imperial regime: his claim to have made Crimea Russian.Kyiv’s Glass Bridge is symbolic, too. Built under Vitali Klitschko, the mayor and a former boxing champion, the elegant pedestrian and cycling bridge represents Kyiv’s future as a walkable, liveable, cosmopolitan European city. It stands for Ukraine’s turn towards the . On October 10th and 11th Mr Putin unleashed a furious response to the Kerch bridge attack, launching more than 100 missiles at civilian targets. One was the Glass Bridge.