Vladimir Putin opened a controversial new bridge crossing a strait from mainland Russia to Russian-occupied Crimea.

Putin"s trip across the bridge launched rail traffic on the bridge.
Ukraine, the EU, and the U.S. have all condemned the 19-kilometer bridge connecting Russia to a peninsula they say is under illegal occupation.
The bridge, the longest bridge in Europe and Russia, crosses the Kerch Strait into the Sea of Azov, and includes a motorway section opened last year.