{"id":49403,"date":"2025-06-05T14:49:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T09:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=49403"},"modified":"2025-06-10T10:51:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T05:21:34","slug":"kerch-strait-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/kerch-strait-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerch Strait"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Kerch Strait Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Recently, Ukraine claimed responsibility for a powerful underwater explosion that targeted the Kerch Bridge, a critical link between the Russian mainland and occupied Crimea.<\/p>\n<h2>About Kerch Strait<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Location:<\/strong>\u00a0It is the only water body that connects the\u00a0<strong>Black Sea with the Sea of Azov.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It separates the\u00a0<strong>Kerch Peninsula<\/strong>\u00a0towards the west from the\u00a0<strong>Taman Peninsula<\/strong>\u00a0(Russia), lying in the east.<\/li>\n<li>At its narrowest point, which lies at the\u00a0<strong>northern end of the Chushka Landspit<\/strong>, it is only three to five kilometres wide.<\/li>\n<li>The city of Kerch lies near the middle of the strait, on the\u00a0<strong>Crimean side.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It has also been a key point of conflict between Russia and Ukraine after Moscow annexed the peninsula from Ukraine in 2014.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Significance:<\/strong>\u00a0It is an important global shipping route, providing passage from the Sea of Azov to the Black Sea.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key Facts about Kerch Strait Bridge<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is also known as the Crimean Bridge, this infrastructure links\u00a0<strong>mainland Russia with Crimea.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Completed in 2018, it includes a road and rail connection and is the longest bridge in Europe at 19 km.<\/li>\n<li>It is a symbol of Russia&#8217;s annexation of Crimea in 2014.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Kerch Strait FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:\u00a0<\/strong>Where is Black Sea located?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0The Black Sea is located at the southeastern extremity of Europe<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:<\/strong>\u00a0What is a Strait?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0It is a narrow waterway between two pieces of land that connects two large bodies of water.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/news\/world\/ukraine-bombs-crimean-bridge-used-by-russia-for-troop-transport-11748957692747.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerch Strait is the only waterway connecting the Black Sea with the Sea of Azov, serving as a vital maritime route for trade and strategic navigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":49332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[713,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-49403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-kerch-strait","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}