The Russian President, Vladimir Putinhas pointed out to the Ukrainian secret services of the “terrorist attack” perpetrated once morest the Kerch bridge last Saturday and that has left it partially unusable.
“There is no doubt that it is a terrorist attack that sought to destroy a civil infrastructure of vital importance to the Russian Federation,” he said. Putin during a working meeting with the director of the Russian Investigative Committee (FSB), Alexander Bastrikin, reported by the Interfax news agency.
At least three people died in the explosion of a truck on the bridge of Kerchwhich connects Russian territory with the peninsula of Crimeaunder Russian occupation. The explosive was detonated as a fuel transport train passed by.
For its part, Bastrikin added that there are “citizens of Russia and foreign countries who have helped prepare this terrorist attack” and explained that they have traced the route of the truck that exploded on the bridge from Bulgaria and through Georgia, Armenia, North Ossetia and the Krasnodar Territory. “The FSB and the Ministry of the Interior have been instructed to carry out operational searches,” he said.
In Moscow it is suspected that Ukraine is behind the partial destruction of this infrastructure, a symbol of the Russian annexation in 2014.
According to the Governor of Crimea, Sergei Aksionov, two sections of the automobile part of the bridge over the Kerch Strait collapsed, in which 1.3 kilometers of railway tracks were also damaged.
Zelensky jokes regarding bridge explosion
The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, spoke sarcastically regarding the strong explosion that has destroyed part of the Crimean bridgewhich links it to Russia, with an unusual message with meteorological content: today it was “cloudy in Crimea”, but also “hot”.
“Today was a good and mostly sunny day on the territory of our state. It was regarding 20 degrees and it was sunny in much of the country. Unfortunately, it was cloudy in Crimea. Although it is also hot. But no matter what the clouds are, the Ukrainians know what to do. And they know that our future is sunny,” the president explained.
(With information from Europa Press and AFP)