The Russian Security Services (FSB) announced on Wednesday, October 12, that they arrested eight people who are suspected of participating in the explosion on the bridge connecting Crimea with Russia on Saturday.
The FSB statement said that five Russians and “Three citizens of Ukraine and Armeniawere arrested without further details on the exact nationalities of these last three suspects. “The explosive device was hidden in 22 22 straw plastic rolls with a total weight of 22,770 kg.“They are informed by FSB.
“Terrorist attack”.
According to this source, the explosives were sent by boat from Odessa port in Ukraine to Ruse port in Bulgaria at the beginning of August. They then passed through the Georgian port of Poti before being sent to Armenia before arriving in Russia by road, again according to the FSB.
Russian services claim that the explosive device entered Russia on October 4 in a Georgian-registered truck before reaching Russia’s Krasnodar region, which borders Crimea, two days before the October 6 explosion. The FSB claims that this “terrorismorganized by Ukrainian military intelligence, ensuring that an agent from Kiev coordinated the transit of explosives and was in contact with various intermediaries.
On Saturday, the Crimean bridge, which connects this Ukrainian peninsula connected by Moscow to the rest of Russia, was seriously damaged by a powerful explosion. However, rail and road traffic was then partially restored along this vital communication route for the Russian military. The Russian authorities claim that the explosion was caused by a mine-laden truck. In response, Russia carried out massive bombings across Ukraine on Monday and Tuesday.
Two attacks failed near Moscow and Bryansk
In addition, the FSB also announced on Tuesday that it had foiled an attempted attack in the Moscow region and another attack in Bryansk, not far from Ukraine, accusing Kiev of plotting the attacks.
In two separate statements cited by Russian news agencies, the FSB claimed to have arrested a Ukrainian suspected of planning a missile attack in the Moscow region and another Ukrainian national accused of planning an explosives attack on a logistics center. in Bryansk.
Source: Le Figaro
