Damage to the Crimea Bridge Has Created a Long Wait for Cargo Trucks Heading to Russia

Satellite images have captured hundreds of cargo trucks backed up and waiting to cross from Crimea into Russia by ferry, days after an explosion on the bridge over the Kerch Strait, contradicting Russian authorities’ efforts to portray the situation there as under control.

The images captured Wednesday by Maxar Technologies, a U.S.-based space technology company, show substantial backlogs at the ferry port of Kerch in Crimea, the peninsula Moscow illegally annexed from Ukraine in 2014. They also show a line of trucks several miles away at an airport that is apparently being used as a staging area for freight vehicles attempting to cross by ferry.