LONDON, Oct 8 (Reuters) - The road-and-rail bridge linking Russia and the Crimean peninsula was damaged in a powerful blast on Saturday, hitting a crucial supply route for Russian forces in Ukraine.


Following are key facts about the bridge.

CRIMEA AND RUSSIA LINK

The 19-km (12-mile) Crimea Bridge over the Kerch Strait is the only direct link between the transport network of Russia and the Crimean peninsula, which Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014.

The bridge was a flagship project for Russian President Vladimir Putin, who opened it himself for road traf*** with great fanfare by driving a truck across in 2018.

It consists of a separate roadway and railway, both supported by concrete stilts, which give way to a wider span held by steel arches at the point where ships pass between the Black Sea and the smaller Azov Sea.

The structure was built, at a reported cost of $3.6 billion, by a firm belonging to Arkady Rotenberg, a close ally and former judo partner of Putin.

WHY IT MATTERS

The bridge is crucial for the supply of fuel, food and other products to Crimea, where the port of Sevastopol is the historic home base of Russia's Black Sea Fleet.

It also became a major supply route for Russian forces after Moscow invaded Ukraine on Feb.

24, sending forces from Crimea to seize most of southern Ukraine's Kherson region and some of the adjoining Zaporizhzhia province.

Russia's Defence Ministry said on Saturday that those troops could be fully supplied by existing land and sea routes.

WHAT HAS BEEN DESTROYED

The blast on Saturday brought down sections of road taking traf*** in one direction.

Traf*** was initially suspended after the incident but by Saturday evening cars and buses were allowed to start crossing the bridge in alternating directions on the remaining intact lanes, while heavy goods vehicles waited to cross by ferry.

Russian of***ials said railway traf*** would resume on Saturday evening.

The span through which ships pass the strait was not damaged.

(Reporting by Reuters Editing by Kevin Liffey and Frances Kerry)





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The Senate is already on a knife's edge. 

Democrats are in control by the tiniest of margins, using Vice President Kamala Harris as a tie-breaker in the chamber that's split 50-50.


On November 8, all Republicans need to do is flip one seat and guard their current territory to give Senator Mitch McConnell the opportunity to become majority leader again. 

However, thanks to a number of Trump-backed candidates and potent issues like abortion, flipping control of the upper chamber looks easier said than done. 

In August, McConnell warned that 'candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome.' Last week, he said he didn't believe abortion would be the central issue in the midterms - pointing to inflation, crime and open borders. 

Recent polling has shown that in some Senate races, Republicans have been able to expertly hammer Democrats on crime. 

At least two big races are currently in flux - Georgia and Pennsylvania - over shocking revelations that an anti-abortion Republican allegedly paid for a pregnancy termination and a GOP TV personality's medical research resulted in the deaths of hundreds of dogs.   

DailyMail.com looks at the eight Senate races that could decide the fate of the upper chamber: 

















Arizona: Sen. Mark Kelly (D) vs. Blake Masters (R) 

Sen. Mark Kelly has had a consistent advantage over his Republican rival, Blake Masters, in Arizona's Senate race. 

released Wednesday showed Kelly with 51 percent support over Masters' 48 percent.

has Kelly with a 3.9 percent edge, and

Kelly is a retired astronaut who became a household name after his wife, former Rep. Gabby Giffords, survived an ass***nation attempt in January 2011. The couple became known as fierce gun control advocates, with Kelly entering politics in 2019 to run for Arizona's Senate special election in 2020. 

Masters is the protégé of Peter Thiel, the Silicon Valley billionaire most politically aligned with former President Donald Trump. Thanks to that relationship, Masters received Trump's blessing in Arizona's five-way Republican primary. 

The first-time candidate has attracted criticism for moderating his stances after winning the early August primary - from flip-flopping on wanting to see Social Security privatized to scrubbing hardline abortion positions from his campaign website. 
















Blake Masters (left), the protégé of Peter Thiel, the Silicon Valley billionaire most politically aligned with former President Donald Trump, hopes to flip Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly's (right) Arizona Senate seat red 


Like other Trump-backed candidates, Masters has repeated the ex-president's election fraud lies.  

The race is competitive because Kelly is being dragged down by issues related to the economy and immigration in the border state. Arizonans rated immigration as the No. 3 issue and among those who ranked it 'very important,' 73 percent are backing Masters. 

Masters' bid has also been hobbled by some behind-the-scenes drama between Thiel and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell - with each expecting the other to pony up funds for the Republican's general election campaign. 

As of early September the Thiel-linked group that helped Masters win the primary was back buying ads, but without any more of the billionaire's money, .






The Trump-backed Republican nominee for U.S.

Senate in Georgia, Herschel Walker (pictured), has had his campaign rocked by alle***s that he paid for an abortion, after coming out as staunchly pro-life during the campaign


Georgia: Sen. Raphael Warnock (D) vs.
Herschel Walker (R)

In the Senate superlatives, Georgia's race currently ranks No. 1 for most salacious. 

The Trump-backed, Heisman-winning, former University of Georgia-turned-NFL football star Herschel Walker has had family matters trip him up from the start. 

An ex-wife claimed he held a gun to her head, during the years he said he struggled with mental illness. 

An ex-girlfriend recently told  that Walker - who has portrayed himself as an anti-abortion absolutist - paid for her to have an abortion in 2009.

She provided the news outlet with a receipt from the procedure, a check signed by Walker and a get well soon card. Walker, who has called abortion 'murder' and wants it banned without exceptions, denied the claims allegedly made against him by one of his children's mothers. 

On the heels of that revelation, his son Christian came out against him. 

'You're not a "family man" when you left us to bang a bunch of women, threatened to kill us, and had us move over 6 times in 6 months running from your violence,' Christian Walker said. 






Democratic incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock is fighting to keep his seat.

He's a pastor by trade and his opponent Herschel Walker has been hit again and again by salacious alle***s, but the race continues to be tight since Georgia is such a swingy state


And prior to that, it was revealed that Walker hid several love children from public consumption. 

Yet the race - in which Walker is running against a pastor, incumbent Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock - remains close. 

A Wednesday poll from showed Warnock just three points ahead - within the survey's 4.2 percent margin of error.

The has the incumbent leading by 3.8 points. Warnock having a two-point advantage. 

It's helped that Republicans, including former President Donald Trump, have stayed at Walker's side.

Trump complained Tuesday that Walker had been 'slandered and maligned.' 

And Warnock, who won one of two run-off races in early January in Georgia in 2021 to flip control of the Senate, is being dragged down by historical trends that don't help his party, as well as running in one of the nation's swingiest states. 






In Nevada, Republicans are running Spanish-language ads against Democratic incumbent Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, the first Latina to serve in the U.S.

Senate 


Nevada: Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D) vs. Adam Laxalt (D) 

Republican hopeful Adam Laxalt is being billed as the Republicans' '' for a Senate pick-up, as he hovered just above Democratic incumbent Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto in every September poll. 

The former Nevada attorney general has a recognizable name among the voter base: his grandfather was a former Nevada senator and governor. 

He's also got the MAGA seal of approval: he called the 2020 election 'rigged,' and tried to contest the result as former President Donald Trump's Nevada co-chair.

He also told the Associated Press he believes 'very few' participants in the January 6 Capitol attack should be prosecuted. 

Trump plans to rally alongside him this weekend. 

But unlike midwestern states where Democratic support is often overestimated, there's a trend in Nevada that has Democrats winning even if the polls show they're down. 






Republican Nevada Senate hopeful Adam Laxalt has been leading Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto in the polls, but Democrats have come from behind to win races in Nevada 


Part of this is the power of the Culinary Workers Union, which historically gets out the vote for Democratic candidates - even if there's not much enthusiasm. 

But points out, about 20 percent of Culinary Workers Union employees remain unemployed in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and Democrats are receiving the brunt of the blame. 

Hispanic voters have moved toward Republicans in recent elections, with the GOP taking advantage of this trend by running Spanish-language ads against Cortez Masto, calling her 'weak on crime' among other things. 

At the same time, Cortez Masto was the first Latina elected to the U.S.

Senate. 

Like Laxalt, she's also a former Nevada attorney general, and pointed to an endorsement this week from the Nevada Police Union to push back on the GOP's cries of her being soft on crime. 

She's also distanced herself from the not-so-popular President Joe Biden when needed, including recently criticizing his student debt relief plan, pointing out that it doesn't help with college affordability. 






Republican Don Bolduc hopes to beat incumbent Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan in the New Hampshire Senate race, but he's flip-flopped on the 'big lie' and suggested microchips are embedded in COVID vaccines 


New Hampshire: Sen. Maggie Hassan (D) vs.

Don Bolduc (R)

Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan is looking less endangered as Election Day nears thanks to the Granite State's late-in-the-cycle primary. 

It wasn't until September 13 that Republican voters picked her rival, the more Trumpy, election denier Don Bolduc. Bolduc won the GOP primary by less than 2,000 votes over Chuck Morse, the president of the New Hampshire state Senate. 






Democratic incumbent Sen. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire looks stronger in polling after Republicans chose conspiracy theorist Don Bolduc as her challenger 


Trump stayed out of the race, but the state's popular GOP Gov.

Chris Sununu threw his weight behind Morse days before the primary, having criticized Bolduc previously. 'He's kind of a conspiracy theory-type candidate,' Sununu said in August. 

Bolduc has called Sununu a 'Chinese Communist sympathizer' and suggested COVID vaccines contained microchips. 'The only chip that's going inside me is a Dorito,' he said during a 2020 run for the U.S.

Senate. 

Since his primary win, Bolduc tried to moderate his election denialism - at one point saying that Biden is the 'legitimate president' and the 'election was not stolen.' 

Hassan's campaign had a field day with that, with a spokesman noting: 'A word salad on Fox will not erase his record of election denial.' 

And earlier this week, Bolduc rephrased his answer again, telling a voter that he doesn't have enough information to say if the 2020 election was rigged.

'But what I can say is that we have irregularity,' he said.  

has Hassan a comfortable 6.6 points ahead, while  the Democrat an 84 percent change of winning as of Wednesday. 

A  found that Hassan's lead is holding steady thanks to female independents flocking to her, as she leads Bolduc 65 percent to 19 percent in this important New Hampshire demographic group. 






Democrat Cheri Beasley, who had been previously elected statewide in North Carolina, as a judge, is campaigning on local issues and highlighting her rival GOP Rep.

Ted Budd's support for Sen. Lindsey Graham's 15-week federal abortion ban 


North Carolina: Rep. Ted Budd (R) vs. Cheri Beasley (D) 

North Carolina's low key Senate race pits the Trump-backed Rep.
Ted Budd against Cheri Beasley, who was previously elected statewide as a judge. If elected, Beasley would become the state's first black senator. 

The seat is being vacated by retiring Republican Sen. Thom Tillis. 

Former President Donald Trump jumped into this race early, endorsing the relatively unknown Budd in June 2021. 

Budd's chief opponent in the Republican primary was the state's former Republican Gov.

Pat McCrory, who had signed the controversial, anti-trans 'bathroom bill.' 

Budd was one of the 147 Republicans who contested the results of the 2020 election on January 6. 






Former President Donald Trump (right) endorsed Rep.

Ted Budd (left) for North Carolina's open Senate seat in June 2021. The relatively obscure congressman was among the 147 Republicans who voted to oppose the results of the 2020 presidential election 


Budd is running slightly ahead in the state, that twice chose Trump for president, but has a Democratic governor.

.  

Beasley has benefited from Budd's primary being tougher than hers - meaning she had more money to spend on advertising throughout the summer. 

She's ran a campaign focused mostly on local issues - to combat the historic drag Democratic candidates have in the first midterm a president of their party holds the White House. 

Republicans, however, are running ads against her, tying her to President Joe Biden's economic record. 

Budd was one of the Republican Senate hopefuls who said he'd support GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham's 15-week national abortion ban, something Beasley has also highlighted.  
















President Donald Trump gave his blessing to Hillbilly Elegy author J.D.

Vance (left) to help him win the GOP Ohio Senate primary. He now takes on Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan (rightO) for the open Senate seat 


Ohio: Rep. Tim Ryan (D) vs.
J.D. Vance (R) 

As he did in Pennsylvania with Dr. Mehmet Oz, former President Donald Trump went with national name recognition when he backed Hillbilly Elegy author J.D. Vance over a handful of more traditional GOP candidates for the Ohio Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Rob Portman. 

Vance is up against Democratic Rep.

Tim Ryan, who briefly ran for the White House during the 2020 cycle, and previously challenged then House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi for her gavel.  

Vance, formerly a Trump critic, has gone full MAGA in the race. He pushed that people were ' on a large-scale basis' in the 2020 election. And he's invited Trump and Donald Trump Jr.

to campaign with him. 

Ryan, who's behind Vance in polls by between 1.2 and 3.4 points - according and , respectively - has generally impressed Democrats with his campaign in a state Trump won over President Joe Biden in 2020 by eight points. 

To cut off some of the headwinds facing Democrats in a midterm year, the 10-term congressman has pointed out that he 'voted with Trump on trade' and he's floated that he wouldn't be opposed to Biden not running for a second term.  

He told Fox News on Monday that he had no plans to invite Biden to campaign alongside him. 






Pennsylvania's Lt.

Gov John Fetterman is vying for the commonwealth's open Senate seat in what's been the most colorful Senate race this midterm cycle


Pennsylvania: Lt. Gov.
John Fetterman (D) vs. Dr. Mehmet Oz (R) 

Pennsylvania's Senate race is turning out to be the most colorful - if not the most competitive. Early on, Democrats believed they could flip the seat of retiring GOP Sen. Pat Toomey. 

But days before the Democratic primary, Lt.

Gov. John Fetterman - the frontrunner against Rep. Conor Lamb - suffered a stroke. He still won every county. On the Republican side, former President Donald Trump selected Dr. Mehmet Oz - the TV personality - over David McCormick, seen by many conservatives as the more electable choice. 

McCormick's wife had even worked for Trump's White House. 

Sidelined from campaigning due to his stroke recovery, Fetterman used web savvy staffers to create viral momentum, hitting Oz for being a rich, out-of-touch, carpetbagger from New Jersey.

Fetterman's campaign utilized Jersey greats including Snooki, flew a banner over the Jersey shore welcoming Oz home and mocked the doctor for saying 'crudite' instead of veggie tray. 






TV personality Dr.

Mehmet Oz (left) narrowly won the Pennsylvania Republican Senate primary thanks to an endorsement by former President Donald Trump (right) 















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Meanwhile, Oz fanned the flames that Fetterman might not be able to do the job due to his health. 

Earlier this week,  the race from 'lean Democrat' back to 'toss-up' due to the flurry of ads from GOP groups characterizing Fetterman as soft on crime. 

But polls have yet to capture the most recent twist -  that claimed Oz's medical experiments resulted in the deaths of 329 dogs, including puppies. 

Fetterman was quick to pounce: 'Dr.

Oz kills puppies. That's the tweet.' 

The two hopefuls will only face-off once, in an October 25 debate. Oz had wanted to debate Fetterman earlier in the cycle, but the Democrat resisted saying the the Republican's campaign was mocking a stroke survivor after an Oz staffer put out a list of 'concessions' the doctor would make - including giving Fetterman access to bathrooms, an earpiece an 'any additional medical personnel he might need.' 






Democrats would love to pick off Republican Sen. Ron Johnson, a top Trump ally who has said things like January 6 wasn't an 'armed insurrection' 


Wisconsin: Sen. Ron Johnson (R) vs.

Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes (D) 

Democrats would love to pick off Republican Sen. Ron Johnson, a top Trump ally on Capitol Hill, who heralds from a purple state. 

Just this week, Johnson irritated those across the aisle by saying it was 'inaccurate' to call January 6 an 'armed insurrection.' And he has the lowest approval rating of any incumbent senator on the ballot this year. 

But Johnson's chances continue to look good against Democrat Mandela Barnes.






Democrat Manela Barnes' lead in the Wisconsin polls vanished after Republicans started running ads against him highlighting crime 


Johnson has a three-point advantage in the , though the most recent poll - conducted - has the two candidates tied.

, Johnson was given a 67 percent chance to win the seat as of Wednesday. 

Barnes had previously been leading in the polls. 

Johnson and outside Republican groups have hit Barnes, Wisconsin's first black lieutenant governor and a progressive, heavily on crime, claiming he's for 'defunding the police.' Barnes has countered that he's not. 

They've also highlighted past controversial tweets. 

In one, Barnes said that House Minority Whip Steve Scalise was 'taking one for the team' when he was shot at Congressional Baseball Game practice, yet still was against gun control measures.

'I question how people vote against self interest but this is next level. He literally almost died on this hill,' Barnes commented. 

In recent days, Barnes has punched back using abortion. 

A narrator in a new Barnes ad accuses Johnson of co-sponsoring a bill that makes no exception for rape, incest, or the life of a woman. 

'And Johnson said if women don't like it, they can move,' the ad says. 





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