kyiv mocks his ‘birthday present’

This bridge is located on the kerch strait, located between the Chushka tip of the Taman Peninsula and the Kerch Peninsula, in Crimea. It was inaugurated on May 16, 2018, at least in its road connection, and it was not until December 2019 that the railway was inaugurated. It was built by a company with no experience in building such relevant bridges: Stroygazmontazh, which caused no insurance company to cover the project.

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The Research Committee has reported at least three dead and that it has been possible to establish the truck owner identity that exploded Investigative actions have been “launched” at his place of residence in Krasnodar. Members of this body and the Ministers of Emergency and Transport went to Crimea to inspect the damage to the bridge. This infrastructure was built by a company owned by a friend of Putin, Arkadi Rotenberg, and it cost about 3,500 million dollars. The Union of Insurers estimates the damage at between 200 and 500 million rubles (3.2 million and 8.1 million dollars), according to the RIA Nóvosti agency.

In Russia it is known as the “work of the century” forks the longest in Europe with its 19 kilometers. The Russian President, Vladimir Putinhas ordered the creation of a government commission made up of several ministries to “find out the causes of the incident and eliminate the consequences as soon as possible.”

Crimean authorities attributed the explosion to “Ukrainian hooliganism”while in Moscow some legislators attributed it to the Ukrainian secret services.

“Ukrainian hooligans managed to get to the Crimean bridge with their bloody hands. Now they have something to be proud of: during 23 years of management, they have failed to build anything worthy of attention in Crimeabut they managed to damage the Russian bridge,” said the chairman of the Crimean State Council, Vladimir Konstantinov.

Teasing from kyiv

The Secretary of National Security and Defense of Ukraine, Oleksy Danilovhas published a video on his personal account of Twitter to sarcastically congratulate Vladimir Putin for his 70 years, fulfilled this past Friday. No western leader sent a message for the anniversary of the Russian president.

In this video appears the American singer, Marilyn Monroeintoning his famous “Happy birthday” -dedicated on May 19, 1962 to President JF Kennedy- along with some images of the collapse of part of the Kerch Bridge, which connects Russia with the Crimean peninsula.

The Ukrainian secretary has accompanied the tweet with a message in which he says “Good morning, Ukraine”. A statement that reflects the general mood of his troops after the latest advances on the battlefield and Putin’s failures.

“Crimea, the bridge, the beginning. Everything illegal must be destroyed, everything stolen must be returned to Ukraineeverything occupied by Russia must be expelled,” Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to the Ukrainian president, tweeted.

Ukrposhta, the national postal service, will launch a new stamp with the Crimean bridge on fireas he already did with the “Moskva”.

The Ukrainian authorities have repeatedly threatened to destroy the bridge over the past seven months of war. Some leaders such as presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestóvych suggested that with missiles it would be more difficult, since the infrastructure is stronger than others that have been targeted by kyiv, such as the Antonivka bridge in Kherson, and it is also well protected by anti-aircraft systems.

Though kyiv has not acknowledged responsibility for the attack this Saturday on the longest bridge in Europe, Danilov’s publication hints that they may be behind this action.

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The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) would be behind the explosion, according to a source from said agency quoted by the Ukrainian digital newspaper Ukrainska Pravda. The newspaper acknowledges that the secret service itself has not made an official statement about its involvement in these events.

The Ukrinform news agency has quoted a SBU post on Telegram to admit, together with information provided to them by sources from the security services, the participation of the Ukrainian security services in the explosion and fire of the bridge.

The russian agency TASS It also indicates that “there was a partial collapse of two sections of the automobile part of the bridge.” Although Ukraine has celebrated the collapse of the bridge, at the moment it does not claim responsibility for the attack.

Possible response from Russia

The Kremlin he has always claimed that an attack on Crimea is a red line that would not go unanswered. In Moscow several legislators have already called for a forceful reply by Russia.

The leader of the Just Russia for Truth party, Sergei Mirónov, considered that the time has come to “crush the infrastructure of the neo-Nazi regime in kyiv”such as “all power plants and all bridges and railways.”

And the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party and chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Leonid Slutski, said that, if the “Ukrainian trail” in the explosion is confirmed, the consequences will be “inevitable” and “hard”.