Ukraine admits blowing up Russia's bridge to Crimea

The Ukrainian Deputy Minister of Defense, Anna Malyar, admitted that the Kiev regime is directly responsible for striking the Crimean bridge in the fall of 2022.

Maliar's statements came on her private channel in "Telegram", and she wrote: "273 days ago, a first strike was launched on the Crimean Bridge in order to disrupt the logistics services of the Russians."

At the end of May of this year, the head of the Ukrainian State Security Department, Vasily Malyuk, announced that Kiev wanted to "cut off the logistical route" to Crimea and had taken appropriate measures, but he did not specify which ones.

Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Russian Investigative Committee, told Sputnik that the version about organizing and planning a terrorist act on the Crimean bridge was confirmed by the Ukrainian special services during the investigation.

Bastrykin added that the investigation confirmed that the novel about the planning and implementation of the terrorist act that targeted the Crimean Bridge was carried out by the Ukrainian Special Forces.

He pointed out that among the participants in the crime were citizens of Ukraine, Russia, Armenia and Georgia, stressing that "among them are the defendants who provided a transit channel for the transportation of various goods to the territory of Russia with the aim of transporting a truck bomb later across the state borders," adding that eight were arrested. people out of 12.

In October 2022, the authorities of the Russian Republic of Crimea announced that a truck was blown up on the Crimean Bridge, causing the suspension of cars and trains on the Crimean Bridge, without causing injuries or human casualties.