ZAPORIZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday called the attack on the sprawling Kerch Bridge into Crimea a “terrorist act” through Ukraine’s special services, and Russia’s top investigator has opened a fraudulent investigation into the explosion that destroyed a major Russian monument. . .
What the Russian government says is that a truck bomb hit the massive bridge connecting Russia to the Crimean peninsula, which Moscow annexed to Ukraine 8 years ago, on Saturday. a blow to Russian prestige.
“There is no doubt that this was a terrorist act aimed at the destruction of the critical civilian infrastructure of the Russian Federation,” Putin said in a video of an assembly Sunday with Russian investigative committee chairman Alexander Bastrykin. “And the perpetrators, the perpetrators and those who ordered it are special from Ukraine. “
Bastrykin said special citizens from Ukraine and Russia and other countries participated in the attack.
“We have already set the direction of the truck,” he said, adding that he had visited Bulgaria, Georgia, Armenia, North Ossetia and Krasnodar, a region in southern Russia, among others.
The remarks followed Russian missile movements overnight in the town of Zaporizhzhia that destroyed part of a giant building, killing at least a dozen people.
The six missiles used in Sunday night’s attack were brought in from Russian-occupied spaces in the Zaporizhzhia region, the Ukrainian Air Force said. The region is one of 4 that Russia claims as its own this month, its so-called capital remaining under Ukraine. control.
Russia has suffered a series of setbacks just about 8 months after invading Ukraine in a crusade that many think was short-lived. In recent weeks, Ukrainian forces have staged a counteroffensive, retaking spaces to the south and east, while troops have provoked protests and an exodus of tens of thousands of Russians.
Recent fighting has focused on spaces just north of Crimea, Zaporizhzhia added. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy lamented the latest attack in a Telegram message.
“Once again, cruel attacks on civilians, targeting residential buildings, in the middle of the night,” he wrote. At least 19 other people were killed Thursday in Russian missile movements against apartment buildings in the city.
“From the one who gave this order, to everyone who complied with this order: they are going to respond,” he added.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba called the attacks on civilians a war crime and called for an investigation.
Stunned citizens watched the gang of cops as emergency crews tried to succeed on the upper floors of a building that was hit directly. An abyss at least 12 meters (40 feet) wide burned without flame where apartments once stood. In an adjacent construction, barrage of missiles blew windows and doors out of their frames within a radius of a pile of feet. At least 20 personal houses and 50 apartment buildings were damaged, city council secretary Anatoly Kurtev said.
Regional police said Sunday afternoon that thirteen other people were killed and more than 60 injured, in addition to at least 10 children.
Tetyana Lazunko, 73, and her husband, Oleksii, took refuge in the hallway of their top-floor apartment after hearing sirens from an airstrike. The explosion shook the building and led to the theft of his belongings. his home for nearly five decades.
“Why are they bombing us? Why?” She.
Others the relentless missile attack.
“There was one explosion, then another,” said Mucola Markovich, 76. In an instant, the fourth-floor apartment he shared with his wife disappeared.
“I don’t know when it will be rebuilt,” Markovich said. I find myself without an apartment at the end of my life. “
About 3 kilometers (2 miles) away, in a missile-ravaged neighborhood, 3 volunteers dug a shallow grave for a German shepherd killed in the attack, the dog’s paw being swept away by the explosion.
Abbas Gallyamov, an independent Russian political analyst and former Putin speechwriter, said the Russian president, who formed a committee on Saturday to investigate the bridge blast, had not responded forcefully enough to satisfy war hawks. The attack and response, he said, have “inspired opposition, while loyalists are demoralised. “
“Because again, they see that when the government says everything is going according to plan and that we are winning, they are lying and that demoralizes them,” he said.
Putin personally opened the Kerch Bridge in May 2018 by driving a truck over it as a symbol of Moscow’s claims to Crimea. The bridge, the longest in Europe, is important for Russian army operations in southern Ukraine.
No one claimed duty for it.
Traffic on the bridge was temporarily suspended after the blast, but cars and trains crossed on Sunday. Russia also restarted a ferry service for cars.
Crimea is a popular holiday hotel for Russians. People who arrived at the bridge and mainland Russia on Sunday encountered hours-long traffic jams.
“We were ready for that turn,” said one driver, Kirill Suslov, sitting in traffic. “That’s why the temperament is a bit gloomy. “
The Institute for War Studies said videos of the bridge indicated that the damage caused by the explosion “likely generates friction in Russian logistics for some time,” but paralyzes Russia’s ability to equip its troops in Ukraine.
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In the devastated Ukrainian city of Lyman, which recently recovered after months of Russian occupation, Ukrainian national police said the government had exhumed the first 20 bodies from a mass burial site. According to initial indications, about two hundred civilians are buried in a single position. and another grave comprises the bodies of fallen Ukrainian infantrymen. Civilians, in addition to children, were buried in individual graves, while infantrymen were buried in a 40-meter-long ditch, according to police.
The Ukrainian military said on Sunday that violent clashes were taking place around the towns of Bakhmut and Avdiivka in the eastern Donetsk region, where Russian forces recently claimed territorial gains. The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces acknowledged any loss of territory but said “the situation of maximum tension” had been observed around those two cities.
Meanwhile, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe’s largest, had been reconnected to the grid after wasting its last external force on Saturday morning following a bombing.
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