There Russia confirms the arrest of eight people in connection with the explosion on Saturday morning on the Kerch bridge and for the “terrorist attack” points the finger at Ukrainian military intelligence and its number one. “The Federal Security Service, together with the Investigative Committee, have established that the organizer of the terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge is the Chief Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, its head Kyrylo Budanov, its employees and agents – says the FSB according to the Russian agency Tass – Five Russian citizens and three other citizens of Ukraine and Armenia who participated in the preparation of this crime were arrested “.
Meanwhile a strong explosion was felt this morning in Melitopol, a city in southern Ukraine occupied by Russian forces. The Kyiv Independent reports it quoting Mayor Ivan Fedorov and reports that according to the first reports a vehicle exploded.
According to the local authorities of the occupied city cited by the Russian agency Tass, the explosion was instead “slight” and took place near “the main entrance of the central market of Melitopol”. It would have been caused by a “handcrafted device”. No casualties or damages are reported.
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