According to Ukrainian military intelligence, the Russians are sinking ferries in the Kerch Strait to protect the Crimean Bridge from attack.
“In the Kerch Strait area, near the illegally built bridge connecting occupied Crimea to Russia, the Russian occupiers began preparations to sink the second ferry,” said the main directorate of the Ministry of Defense’s Military Intelligence Service. Defense of Ukraine (HUR) said in a statement.
According to the Ukrainian side, in order to create a protective barrier for the Crimean bridge, the occupiers plan to sink at least six ferries and put barriers between them. “So the enemy is trying to protect the bridge in the Kerch Strait from further damage,” we read.
Ukraine’s military intelligence: Russia wants to protect itself
The HUR emphasizes that the Crimean Bridge has suffered serious damage, especially to the road section and railway lines, as a result of several successful attacks.
The recent bombing of the border crossing “has further aggravated the situation of Russian troops deployed in the south of mainland Ukraine and provoked a hysterical reaction from the Russian military and political leadership,” the Ukrainian services argue.
They said the Kremlin demanded that the bridge, which is an important supply artery for the Russian invasion forces, be secured against further attacks from Ukraine.
“The simplistic solution of protecting a 19-kilometer bridge by sinking ferries in front of it demonstrates the feverish urgency of the decision-making process in Moscow and the intellectual crisis within the military-political leadership of terrorist Russia,” argues the Ukrainian military intelligence.
Explosion on the Crimean bridge
October 8 last year In 2007, an explosion occurred on the Crimean bridge, which led to the partial collapse of one of the two carriageways of the road bridge and the fire of a train carrying fuel tankers on the adjacent railway bridge. Russian President Vladimir Putin called the Crimean bridge explosion a “terrorist attack” and began bombing Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in retaliation.
She admitted to carrying out the attack in August this year. Security Service of Ukraine. Vasyl Maluk, head of the SBU, revealed that a truck carrying plastic-wrapped explosives had been used in the operation. The explosive loaded on the truck was equivalent to 21 tons of TNT or 42 warheads of Russian Kh-47M2 Kinzhal hypersonic missiles.
Putin: The case is finally closed
Russia occupied Crimea in 2014. An illegal ‘referendum’ was held in the presence of the military, and the peninsula was subsequently announced as part of the Russian Federation. According to Moscow, 97 percent. residents of Crimea and 95 percent. in Sevastopol chose to join Russia.
Russian propaganda has been repeating for years that the inhabitants of the peninsula have voted for democratic union with Russia, in accordance with international law and the UN Charter. According to Putin, the question of Crimea is “finally closed”.
The preservation of the annexed peninsula is one of the main conditions that Russia sets for Ukraine before possible peace negotiations. The authorities in Kiev do not want to agree to this; they regard Crimea as temporarily occupied territory.
Source: Do Rzeczy
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