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Russia arrests eight people for their alleged connection to the Kerch Bridge attack

An illustration shows in kyiv the partial destruction of the KErch bridge in Crimea – DANYLO ANTONIUK / ZUMA PRESS / CONTACTOPHOTO

Russian security services have arrested eight people, including five Russian nationals, for their alleged connection to the attack on the Kerch Bridge on Saturday, which Moscow has blamed on Ukrainian military intelligence.

According to the Federal Security Service (FSB), all the detainees, among whom there are also citizens of Ukraine and Armenia, participated in some way in the preparation of an action that partially destroyed the bridge connecting Crimea with the Russian Federation. In total, he has identified twelve accomplices.

Russian investigators have attributed the attack — “terrorist” in the eyes of Moscow — to a concealed explosive device that was initially shipped from the port of Odessa in Ukraine to Ruse in Bulgaria. The cargo trail would continue through Georgia and Armenia.

The last phase, that of the entry into Crimea of ​​the artifact, would have been possible thanks to the falsification of documents perpetrated by five Russians and a Ukrainian who created a ghost firm responsible for receiving the merchandise, according to the official version collected by the Interfax agency.

Finally, on October 8, a powerful explosion occurred that destroyed part of an infrastructure that is especially symbolic for Russia, insofar as it is its land connection with a peninsula that it has claimed as its own since 2014, as a result of an annexation that Ukraine has always contested.

Source: Europa Press

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