Putin will hold the meeting on Monday, just two days after a massive explosion on a key strategic bridge linking Crimea and Russia

CNN  — 

archive.cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/paragraph_B7C1C365-1685-59F5-88CC-BD4074CB8937@published” data-editable=”text” data-component-name=”paragraph”> Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold an operational meeting of his Security Council on Monday, just two days after a massive explosion on a key strategic bridge linking Crimea and Russia.

archive.cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/paragraph_30F6E969-83B5-DCB1-09C6-BD41135D2AAF@published” data-editable=”text” data-component-name=”paragraph”> The meeting itself isn’t out of the ordinary – Putin regularly holds operational meetings with the Security Council, usually on a weekly basis, according to TASS. However, it comes just days after a major humiliation for the Russian President, when an explosion severely damaged parts of the road and rail bridge between annexed Crimea and the Russian Federation early Saturday.

archive.cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/paragraph_015EF274-1F51-1D08-9A97-BD71F0D66A46@published” data-editable=”text” data-component-name=”paragraph”> And while the agenda has not been made public, the meeting comes at a strategic crossroads for the Kremlin, which must make a series of unenviable choices after Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine has faltered after a month of military setbacks.

archive.cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/paragraph_8CECFCAF-2BE2-5382-1533-BD41135E4E78@published” data-editable=”text” data-component-name=”paragraph”> Some road traffic and train traffic has resumed on the…