Vladimir Putin blamed the Ukrainian secret service for carrying out the explosion that left three dead on the Crimean bridge on Saturday. The Russian president said that it is a terrorist act.
The Russian President, Vladimir Putintoday accused the secret services of Ukraine of the “terrorist act” once morest the crimean bridge on Saturday, which caused partial damage to the only infrastructure linking the annexed Ukrainian peninsula with Russia and in which foreign countries would be involved.
“There is no doubt that this is a terrorist act aimed at destroy critically important civilian infrastructure of the Russian Federation,” he said at a meeting with the chairman of the Russian Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrikin.
“The authors, executors and clients are the Ukrainian secret servicePutin noted.
The head of the Investigative Committee clarified that in the “terrorist act” of the Ukrainian secret services “Russian citizens and foreign countries They helped with the preparation.
“We have already established the route of the truck that exploded. That is Bulgaria, this is Georgia, this is Armenia, North Ossetia, the Krasnodar Territory.”Bastrikin noted.
He indicated that, with the help of the Federal Security Service (FSB, former KGB), it was possible to identify “suspects among those who might prepare a terrorist attack.”
The head of the Investigation Committee explained that a a criminal case for terrorism following the explosion on the bridge.
“We opened a case under the second part of article 205 ‘Terrorism’ and this is confirmed by the data from the initial stage of the investigation,” he stressed.
interrogations
Bastrikin argued that many witnesses were questionedalso ocular, special expert studies were initiated and an explosive, genetic and forensic examination was carried out.
All examinations are now largely finished, he added.
He also stressed that relevant instructions had been given to the FSB and the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs to carry out searches and the search for suspects.
According to the official version of Russia, on Saturday early in the morning a truck exploded on the automobile part of the bridge, which caused a fire in seven fuel tanks in a tanker train on the rail side of the infrastructure.
Two sections of the highway carriageway collapsed in the attack, in which at least three people diedaccording to the Instruction Committee.
Ukraine, which has sarcastically celebrated the explosion, has not confirmed his involvement or authorship so far.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), to which Putin and Bastrikin are referring, wrote on its Telegram channel on Saturday a quote paraphrasing the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko. “The bridge burns beautifully at dawn. A nightingale meets the SBU in Crimea,” the text read.
Ukrainian media such as Ukrainska Pravda or the Ukrinform and Unian agencies already indicated the day before that, according to their sources, the SBU is behind the explosion.