The undermining of the bridge is the result of an internal struggle between the Russian military and special services, the president emphasizes.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi denies Ukraine's involvement in the explosion on the bridge across the Kerch Strait< /strong>, which connects the occupied Crimea with the mainland of the Russian Federation.
“We definitely did not order this, as far as I know,” the president said in an interview with the TV channel. 400;”>CTV News.
At the same time, Zelenskyi repeated the assumption that the undermining of the bridge could be the result of an internal Russian struggle between the military and the FSB.
“There are many verticals of power. It's a big system. In the Soviet Union, it was the KGB. Today, it consists of several branches that constantly decide which of them is the main one,” Zelensky added.
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An explosion occurred on the bridge in the morning of October 8, the railway track was damaged, two car spans collapsed. Russia immediately called the detonation a “terrorist attack”, which was expected to be blamed on Ukraine. On October 19, the head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Aleksandr Bastrykinreported that “the version about the involvement of the Ukrainian special services was confirmed during the investigation”. investigators criticized both the Ukrainian and Western special services -weight: 400;”> who believe that the explosives were placed under the supports and detonated remotely.
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