two days after The explosion that partially destroyed the Crimean bridge On Sunday, Russian President Vladimir Putin blamed Kyiv for the Crimean Bridge bombing, describing the incident as a “terrorist act.”
He said during a meeting with the head of the Russian Investigative Committee, that “the perpetrators and planners are the Ukrainian intelligence services,” according to what was reported by “AFP.”
“The bombing of the Crimean bridge was aimed at Russian infrastructure,” he added.
The truck passed through Bulgaria
In turn, the head of the Russian Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, said that the Russian Federal Security Service learned that the attack was carried out by the Ukrainian intelligence with the help of Russians and foreigners.
Bastrykin also said during his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin that the truck took off from Bulgaria and arrived in Georgia, from there to Armenia, then to North Ossetia in Russia, before reaching the Krasnodar Territory, bordering Crimea in southwestern Russia.
He added that “the path of the truck was determined by the efforts of the Federal Security Service, which was able to identify those involved in planning the terrorist attack.”
From the bombing of the Crimean bridge
Doomsday scenario
Dmitry Medvedev, deputy head of the National Security Council, warned last July that striking the Crimean bridge would unleash For the scenario “Doomsday”referring to the possibility of the use of nuclear weapons.
It is noteworthy that the truck explosion, which occurred on Saturday morning, seriously damaged this bridge that crosses the Kerch Strait, which also includes a road and a train track, in a blow to a prominent symbol of Moscow’s annexation of the peninsula.
It is also an important supply route for the Russian forces that controlled most of the Kherson region in southern Ukraine, as well as the coastal city of Sevastopol.
Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, and Putin inaugurated the 19-kilometre bridge linking the peninsula to Russia’s transport network in a grand celebration four years later.
The Kremlin depicts Crimea, whose residents speak the Russian language, as a historical and dear part of Russia, and the focus has been on promoting this image in particular this year, after the launch of the Russian military operation on Ukrainian soil on February 24 (2022).