Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the executors and customers of the undermining of the Crimean bridge were the special services of Ukraine. He announced this at a meeting with the head of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin, RIA Novosti reports .
Bastrykin announced the initiation of a criminal case under the article "terrorism". He also stated that the identity of the suspects involved in the preparation of the bombing had been established. The head of the ICR added that "citizens of the Russian Federation and foreign states were involved in the incident, they helped in the preparation of the terrorist attack."
Investigators, according to the head of the Investigative Committee, which are given in the transcript of the conversation on the Kremlin website, have established the route of the truck. Before the explosion, he passed through the territory of Bulgaria, Georgia, Armenia and North Ossetia. Bastrykin also reported to Putin on the identification of carriers.
On October 8, at 6 am, an explosion thundered on the automobile part of the Crimean bridge from the side of the Taman Peninsula, according to preliminary data, a truck exploded on the bridge. As a result, the tanks of the train, which was walking along the railway part of the bridge, caught fire. The moment of the explosion was caught on video. The Investigative Committee of Russia opened a criminal case. The head of the parliament of the annexed peninsula, Vladimir Konstantinov, said that "Ukrainian vandals" damaged the roadway.