Explosion on Crimean bridge: how Russian FSB fabricates "evidence of terrorist attack"
STANISLAV POHORILOV — THURSDAY, 13 OCTOBER 2022, 12:48
The Centre for Strategic Communications and Information Security of Ukraine analysed the "evidence" of the FSB regarding the involvement of who they described as "Ukrainian infiltrators" in the explosion on the Crimean Bridge.
Source: The Centre for Strategic Communications
Quote: "In attempts to find out what really has happened on the Crimean bridge, Moscow drowned in fakes, сuts, tampering with facts, and official denials by various countries."
Details: The Russians claim that the bomb that led to the bridge’s explosion was "camouflaged" in rolls of construction polyethylene wrap and sent from the port of Odesa to Bulgaria in early August, then transported to the Georgian port of Poti and then on to Armenia.
Then the cargo crossed the Georgian-Russian border and was unloaded at the wholesale base of Armavir [a city in Krasnodar Krai, Russia].
However, this version does not stand up to criticism, the Centre for Strategic Communications states.
First of all, it is hard to believe that a bomb weighing a tonne crossed the borders of several countries (in particular, the Russian border) undetected.
Secondly, the photo that the FSB attached to the "documents" do not depict the same truck that appeared in the previously released footage.
The Russian Federation also claims that the X-ray photo shown by the Russian security forces refers to another truck that was transporting explosives during one of the transportation stages. The X-ray shot was allegedly taken at the customs post in Armenia.
In addition, Armenia provided a detailed, hour-by-hour track of a "truck bomb" on its territory. As the truck was staying at the Ararat Customs Office, it was in the area of surveillance cameras; the footage confirmed that the car was not unloaded or additionally loaded.
In Georgia, they said that the truck that exploded on the bridge over the Kerch Strait had not crossed the country's border at all.
Background:
- On the morning of 8 October, it was reported that a large fire had broken out on the railway portion of the Crimean Bridge. The occupying authorities in Crimea claimed that a truck had exploded on the Crimean Bridge. Meanwhile, Volodymyr Konstantinov, the so-called head of the Parliament of Crimea, said that the road surface on the Crimean Bridge had been damaged by "Ukrainian vandals".
- Later, Russian media shared a video that captured the moment of the explosion on the Crimean Bridge.
- The occupiers claimed that the movement of cars and buses across the Crimean Bridge had resumed.
- Sources of Ukrainska Pravda reported that the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) is behind the explosion on the Crimean Bridge that occurred on early 8 October.
- Russia’s FSB reported on an investigation into the explosion on the Crimean Bridge. A total of 8 people have been detained; according to Russian investigators, the Chief Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine and its chairman Kyrylo Budanov were allegedly responsible for orchestrating the explosion.
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