October 9, 2022 23:38
Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Kyiv on Sunday of committing a “terrorist act” by orchestrating and carrying out the explosion that partially destroyed Saturday the Crimean bridge linking Russia and the peninsula, which was followed at night by bloody Russian strikes on a Ukrainian city.
“The perpetrators and planners are the Ukrainian intelligence services,” Putin said during a meeting with the head of the Russian Investigative Committee, according to a video clip broadcast by the Kremlin.
“There is no doubt that it is a terrorist act aimed at destroying a very important Russian civilian infrastructure,” he added.
This is Putin’s first reaction to the explosion, which occurred at dawn on Saturday at a time when his forces are facing difficulties on the ground in Ukraine.
The Kremlin announced that the Russian president will hold a meeting of the Security Council on Monday.
The Ukrainian army and the Ukrainian special services refused to deny or confirm their responsibility, and President Volodymyr Zelensky only mocked the issue in a video in which he ridiculed Saturday the “cloudy” and “hot” weather in Crimea, in reference to the fire that broke out on the bridge following the explosion.
During the night, Russian bombing of residential buildings in Zaporizhia targeted the site of 12 to 17 dead people, according to different numbers, three days after a previous bombing that killed 17 people in the city.
The latest toll issued by the local administration indicated that 13 people were killed and 60 wounded, including women and children, after a previous toll issued by the municipal council stated that 17 people had been killed.
Source: agencies
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