Russia today put a face to those allegedly responsible for the attack on the bridge that connects the annexed Crimean peninsula with the Russian mainland perpetrated last Saturday and arrested eight people, three of them Russians and the rest from Ukraine and Armenia.
“The Federal Security Service (FSB, former KGB) established, together with the Investigation Committee, that the terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge was organized by the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, led by Kiril Budanov”, the agency reported.
Explosive long route
“In the framework of the investigation, five citizens of Russia and three of Ukraine and Armenia who participated in the preparation of the crime have been detained,” the FSB added.
He pointed out that “the explosive device was concealed in rolls of polyethylene for construction contained in 22 pallets with a total weight of 22,770 kilograms”, in a shipment dispatched in early August from the Ukrainian port of Odessa to the Bulgarian port of Ruse, on the Danube.
Subsequently, the cargo was sent to the Georgian port of Poti, on the Black Sea, and from there by land to Armenia, to finally reach Russia.
The tracking of the route of the cargo with explosives and the contacts with the participants in the operation were carried out by a agent of the Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, who identified himself as “Ivan Ivanovich”, according to the FSB.
More arrests
This same Wednesday, Russia announced the arrest of two other Ukrainian citizens who intended to perpetrate terrorist attacks by order of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) in Russian territory.
The Russian President, Vladimir Putintook advantage of the rostrum of the V Russian Energy Week, to once again accuse Ukraine of terrorism, the Moscow’s main excuse to destroy Ukrainian infrastructure as revenge for the detonation of explosives on Saturday at the Crimean bridge.
Ukraine “does not contain itself in the face of nuclear terrorism”, he denounced, referring to the bombing of the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporizhia and the alleged attempts to attack the Russian nuclear power plant in Kursk.
“To this are added the attempts to blow up a segment of the Turk Stream gas pipeline,” he added without giving further details, although he settled that these are “proven and documented facts.”
The SBU today reacted to these accusations by pointing out that “all the activities of the FSB and the Russian Instruction Committee are nonsense”.
“They are false structures that serve the Putin regime, so we will not comment on these new statements,” said the entity’s spokesman, Andriy Yusov, quoted by UNIAN.
‘Didn’t go through Georgia’
Georgia today denied that the explosive charge detonated on the 8th and that damaged the Crimean bridge passed through Georgian territory, as reported by the Federal Security Service.
“The Georgian border has not been crossed by a wagon or a truck with explosives,” Georgian Deputy Finance Minister Gueorgui Kakauridze told Public Television.
He stressed that Russia’s accusations in this regard are not supported in any way.
“Our Western partners, the United States and the European Union, know very well how we control customs,” Kakauridze said.
He added that if anyone presents substantiated arguments that the cargo crossed the Georgia border, an investigation will be opened.
Non-stop bombing of electrical infrastructure
Meanwhile, Ukraine today suffered for the third consecutive day Russian bombardments focused on electrical installations, which already led to a 30% loss of the country’s capacities, Ukrainian Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko told CNN.
The Minister of Energy pointed out that this is the first time since the beginning of the war that Russia seeks to hit the Ukrainian energy infrastructure on such a scale.
The governor of the Dnipropetrovsk regional administration (center), Valentin Reznichenko, today denounced attacks against these facilities in Kamianske, where “there is a great fire and destruction”, and urged the population to save.
In the face of this Russian offensive, the United States Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, assured on Wednesday that NATO is willing to maintain its support for kyiv.
“We will continue to boost Ukraine’s defense capabilities for today’s and long-term urgent needs,” he stressed at a meeting of Ukraine’s defense contact group countries held at the Atlantic Alliance headquarters.
For his part, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg demanded at the beginning of the meeting that NATO Defense Ministers will hold for two days in Brussels, to deliver “different types” of air defense systems to Ukraine to defend itself. of Russian missiles and drones.
The “terrifying indiscriminate attacks” that Russia launched on Monday and Tuesday against Ukrainian cities, “killing civilians” and destroying Ukrainian power infrastructure, “show the urgent need for more air defense systems for Ukraine,” he said. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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