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Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused Ukraine of attacking the bridge to Russian-annexed Crimea, saying that it was an “act of terrorism”.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n President Putin said Ukraine’s intelligence forces had aimed to destroy a critically important piece of Russia’s civil infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He was speaking at a meeting with the head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Officials say three people were killed in the blast on the bridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The victims were in a nearby car when a lorry blew up, Russian officials say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “There is no doubt, this is an act of terrorism aimed at destroying Russia’s critical civilian infrastructure,” Mr Putin said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Its authors, perpetrators and beneficiaries are the security services of Ukraine.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr Bastrykin said that citizens of Russia and some foreign states had aided preparations for the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Mr Bastrykin, investigators have established that the truck which they say blew up travelled through Bulgaria, Georgia, Armenia, North Ossetia and Krasnodar Territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He has ordered an investigation into the incident which brought down sections of the roadway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ukrainian officials have not indicated that their forces were behind the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But an adviser to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, Mykhailo Podolyak, denied Mr Putin’s accusation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He wrote that there is “only one terrorist state here” and that the “whole world knows who it is”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Does Putin accuse Ukraine of terrorism? It looks too cynical even for Russia,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On Saturday, President Volodymyr Zelensky acknowledged the incident in his nightly address, saying: “Today was not a bad day and mostly sunny on our state’s territory.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Unfortunately, it was cloudy in Crimea. Although it was also warm,” he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BBC News: Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused Ukraine of attacking the bridge to Russian-annexed Crimea, saying that it was an “act of terrorism”. President Putin said Ukraine’s intelligence forces had aimed to destroy a critically important piece of Russia’s civil infrastructure. He was speaking at a meeting with the head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin. Officials say three people were killed in the blast on the bridge. The victims were in a nearby car when a lorry blew up, Russian officials say. “There is no doubt, this is an act of terrorism aimed at destroying Russia’s… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27845,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27846,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27844\/revisions\/27846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}