"Missile Intercepted over Annexed Crimea, Brief Traffic Halt on Key Bridge"

Russian-installed authorities in Crimea reported intercepting a cruise missile near Kerch and briefly halting traffic on the Kerch bridge, while authorities in the nearby Russian region of Rostov reported shooting down a Ukrainian missile. Attacks on Russian regions and Crimea have become common during the ongoing war in Ukraine. Last October, the Kerch bridge was severely damaged in an explosion, which Ukraine's Deputy Defense Minister recently admitted to orchestrating. In other developments, one of the defense commanders of the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, who had been taken into Russian captivity, announced his return to the battlefield, and the death toll from a Russian missile strike on Lyman rose to nine.