People trying to leave Crimea are spending hours in kilometers-long traffic jams in the hope of reaching the Kerch bridge, linking the Russia-annexed peninsula with the mainland, October 9.

"They say that you can spend almost 24 hours in this traffic jam," one driver waiting his turn told The Associated Press on Sunday.

Car traffic has resumed along both road sections of the Kerch Bridge, Russia's deputy prime minister said on Sunday.

Marat Khusnullin, who also heads a government commission investigating the blast which tore through the bridge on Saturday, said in a Telegram post that previously, only one section was open to alternating traffic.

Crimea has been a popular, year-round sun-and-sea destination for Russian tourists, both before and after its annexation by Moscow in early 2014, which was condemned by Western nations and Ukraine as illegal.

An explosion caused the partial collapse of the sole bridge linking the peninsula to Russian territory early on Saturday.

According to Reuters, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Sunday that the explosion on a key bridge linking Crimea and the Russian mainland was a terrorist act planned by the Ukrainian special services.

"There is no doubt. This is an act of terrorism aimed at destroying critically important civilian infrastructure," Putin said in a video on the Kremlin's Telegram channel. "This was devised, carried out and ordered by the Ukrainian special services."

Putin was meeting Alexander Bastrykin, the head of Russia's Investigative Committee, who was presenting findings of an inquiry into Saturday's explosion and fire on the bridge.

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