The Director of the Russian Federal Bureau of Investigation briefs the Russian President on the progress of the investigations into the Crimean Bridge bombing, and Putin announces that the bombing is a terrorist act aimed at destroying a vital site sensitive to the Russian infrastructure.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced today, Sunday, that the planners and perpetrators of the terrorist attack on the Crimean Bridge are the Ukrainian special services, stressing that the attack is directed once morest Russia’s vital infrastructure.
“As I just mentioned, there is no doubt that this is a terrorist attack aimed at destroying civilian infrastructure of critical importance to the Russian Federation,” Putin said at a meeting with the head of the Russian Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin.
Putin asked: “Are the planners, executors and agents of the Ukrainian special services?” Bastrykin replied: “Ukrainian special services and citizens of Russia and foreign countries helped in the planning and execution of this terrorist attack.”
“The investigators of the Russian Federal Security Service have identified the masterminds of the attack,” Bastrykin added.
Bastrykin said, “We have already identified the route of the truck where the explosion occurred. It took off from Bulgaria (a NATO member country), Georgia, Armenia and North Ossetia, and then Krasnodar. The truck was identified with the help of FSB operational officers.”
and promises Kerch bridge Which was inaugurated by Russian President Vladimir Putin in May 2018, extending over 19 km, is a huge and expensive project, and it took two years to build to connect Russia with the Crimea, and aims to reduce the isolation of the peninsula following 4 years of its annexation.
Deputy Speaker of the State Duma Oleg Morozov stressed that the long-announced terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge It’s not just a challenge anymoreRather, it is a “declaration of war without rules”.