Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Kyiv on Sunday of carrying out a “terrorist act” by planning and carrying out the explosion that partially destroyed the Crimean bridge connecting Russia and the peninsula, which was followed by bloody Russian strikes on a Ukrainian city at night. This caused devastation and death throughout Ukraine and sparked a global crisis.
According to a video recording released by the Kremlin, Putin stated in a meeting with the director of the Russian Investigative Committee, “The perpetrators and planners are the Ukrainian intelligence agencies.”
Without a doubt, he continued, “it is a terrorist attack intended to damage a very significant Russian civilian infrastructure.”
This is Putin’s initial response to the blast, which happened early on Saturday morning while his soldiers are having trouble in Ukraine.
The Russian president will host a Security Council meeting on Monday, according to the Kremlin.
Three days after a previous explosion in the city that left 17 people dead, Russian forces bombed residential buildings in Zaporizhia throughout the night, according to various counts.
After a previous death toll reported by the municipal council stated that 17 people had been killed, the most recent death toll released by the local administration revealed that 13 people had been killed and 60 others, including women and children, had been injured.
“There is absolutely no significance. utterly evil. The ones who gave this command to the person who carried it out were terrorists and barbarians. They are each accountable. In front of the law and the people, “The president of Ukraine posted a message on Telegram.
The Russian airstrike, he continued, “destroyed private homes where people used to live and sleep without attacking anyone.
Four cruise missiles, two missiles fired from combat planes, as well as other anti-aircraft missiles, were fired towards Zaporizhia, according to the Ukrainian Air Force.
The Russian army, on its part, declared that it had attacked Zaporizhia with “high-precision weapons.”
The city is close to the shut-down Zaporizhia nuclear power station, which is at the epicentre of a confrontation that has been going on for months. The plant was only using emergency generators after the attacks caused it to lose its only external supply of electricity, the International Atomic Energy Agency warned on Saturday.
Following the significant explosion on the Crimean Bridge, the deputy prime minister of Russia, Marat Khosnolin, declared that divers will examine the bridge on Sunday to determine the extent of structural damage and to report “initial results” later that day.
Many hours after the explosion, which resulted in the collapse of parts of one of the bridge’s lanes and the outbreak of fire in several trailers of fuel tanker trailers on part of the railway from the bridge, which was built at great expense and inaugurated by Putin in 2018.
In light of the Crimean Bridge explosion, Putin accused Kiev of committing terrorism after destroying Ukraine.
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