9 October 2022 at 19:47 Putin claims Ukraine is behind the explosion on the Krym bridge Russian President Vladimir Putin calls the explosion on the Krym bridge an act of terrorism, and claims the Ukrainian intelligence service is behind the attack, according to Reuters. In a statement on Sunday evening, Putin condemned the attack and called it a “terrorist act targeting civilian Russian infrastructure”. Putin made the statement in a meeting with Aleksandr Bastrykin, the head of the Russian Investigative Committee investigating the explosion. Bastrykin also claims that Russian and foreign citizens helped Ukrainian special agents carry out the attack. On the night of Saturday, it exploded on the Krym side of the bridge. Three people were killed and parts of the bridge were destroyed. It set fire to seven oil tankers being transported to Crimea by rail. That is what the Russian anti-terrorist committee says, according to AFP. The bridge connects the Krym Peninsula and Russia, and was completed in 2018. It is the only road and rail connection between the Russian mainland and the occupied Krym Peninsula. It is not clear who is behind the explosion. On Twitter, Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to the Ukrainian president, says that the explosion is the “first step” and that “everything illegal must be destroyed” and that “everything stolen must be returned to Ukraine.”
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