Russian President Vladimir Putin has opened the country’s newly built bridge to the annexed Crimean peninsula, driving a truck across the span and drawing angry condemnation from Kyiv and the European Union. Mr. Putin was shown live on state television at the wheel of a Kamaz truck in a convoy of vehicles that crossed what…...

A $3.7-billion, 19-kilometer long bridge connecting Russia to the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea that Moscow illegally annexed four years ago was officially opened on May 15.