Zelensky’s office adviser Podolyak called the Crimean bridge one of the targets for Ukraine to strike
Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, announced Kyiv’s plans to destroy the Crimean bridge. About this he told in an interview with The Guardian.
Podolyak called the bridge a “legitimate military target” of great importance. “Such objects must be destroyed,” he said. However, the official did not specify how the Ukrainian army could strike.
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According to him, Ukraine expects to organize “chaos within the Russian forces”, and various sabotage may occur in Russia in the coming months.
Long-standing plans to destroy the Crimean bridge
The road-railway bridge connecting the peninsula with the Russian mainland through the Kerch Strait has been rejected by Kyiv since its construction was announced in 2014. At various times, former and current Ukrainian military and politicians have spoken about plans to destroy the infrastructure facility with the help of aircraft or navy.
After the start of the Russian special operation, such statements began to appear more and more often. In particular, on August 15, a member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Oleksiy Goncharenko, said that Kyiv, at the June NATO summit, held talks with British Defense Minister Ben Wallace about a plan to destroy the bridge. Later in London they disowned such negotiations.
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On August 8, the former commander of the NATO European Army, General Philip Breedlove, advised the Ukrainian Armed Forces to strike at the bridge. “Suitable” for this purpose, he called the American Harpoon anti-ship missiles, which the United States supplied to Ukraine in June. Breedlove also pointed out that the attack on the Crimean bridge by Ukraine was “completely justified.”
On the same day, it became known that two German soldiers, Louis B. and Akira V., who stole equipment from the Bundeswehr stocks in Schleswig-Holstein, wanted to blow up the Crimean bridge. According to the police report, the plans of the conspirators became known from a telephone conversation in which the men discussed the special equipment needed to undermine the almost 20-kilometer bridge. Immediately after that, they were arrested.
Russia declares sufficient security of the bridge
Vice Speaker of the Federation Council Konstantin Kosachev said that the Crimean bridge was built with “possible risks” in mind.
Of course, no one will allow to destroy the Crimean bridge under any circumstances
According to the senator, in the event of an attempt to strike at the Crimean bridge, it will be clear that this is done with the help of weapons provided by the West to Ukraine. He added that the Kyiv authorities currently do not have their own weapons that allow such attacks.
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Earlier, Senator Olga Kovitidi considered the Crimean bridge the most protected bridge in the world. According to her, it is guarded by two regiments of air defense systems (air defense) S-400 and Pantsir S-1, which create a dome with a diameter of 400 kilometers over the object, as well as a sonar system that excludes the possibility of underwater sabotage.
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