Russian security services have detained eight people, including five Russian nationals, for their alleged connection to Saturday’s attack on the Kerch Bridge, which Moscow has blamed on Ukrainian military intelligence.
According to the Federal Security Service (FSB), all the detainees, among whom there are also citizens of Ukraine and Armenia, were involved in some way in the preparation of an action that partially destroyed the bridge connecting Crimea with the Russian Federation. In total, it has identified twelve accomplices.
Russian investigators have attributed the attack — «terrorist» in Moscow’s eyes — to a hidden explosive device that was initially shipped from the port of Odessa in Ukraine to the port of Ruse in Bulgaria. The trail of the cargo would continue through Georgia and Armenia.
The last phase, that of the entry of the device into Crimea, would have been possible thanks to the falsification of documents perpetrated by five Russians and a Ukrainian who created a ghost company responsible for receiving the goods, according to the official version reported by the Interfax agency.
Finally, a powerful explosion occurred on October 8 that destroyed part of a particularly symbolic infrastructure for Russia, insofar as it is its land connection with a peninsula that it has claimed as its own since 2014, following an annexation that Ukraine has always contested.