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Russian authorities on Monday encouraged holidaymakers stranded in Crimea after the Crimean bridge attack to return home. A governor established by Moscow after the annexation of Crimea, Sergey AksyonovHe asked for example “Residents and guests of the peninsula should avoid traveling over the Crimean Bridge and, in the interests of safety, choose an alternative land route through the new territories”. The proposed 400km route passes through some territory affected by fighting with the Ukrainian army, which has been bombing Russian supply routes.

Russian television broadcast a map of the route through Melitopol, in Ukraine’s southern Zaporizhzhya region, and the bombed-out major port city of Mariupol, in southern Russia, before reaching Rostov-on-Don.

Vladimir Zalto, the official appointed by the Russian authorities to head the Russian-controlled area of ​​Kherson region (southern Ukraine), announced that the curfew for passing motorists would be shortened and the Russian military would be strengthened. Security. He warned that there would be checkpoints to avoid “nasty job”But formalities are light.

In the neighboring region of Zaporizhzhya, Moscow-appointed governor Yevgeny Politskyi vowed that authorities would respond to the Ukrainian counteroffensive. “Security” of the road.

Pro-Russian officials in Crimea advised travelers to pass through “Beyond Military Vehicles and Columns” of players.

According to the official Russian agency RIA Novosti, 50,000 tourists are in Crimea, most of them arriving by car from Russia over the partially damaged bridge on Monday.