Explosibles placed at the Kerci Bridge (Video)
Kerci Bridge, hit again. The Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) assured on Tuesday that it damaged in a special operation the foundations of the Kerci Bridge, which link the Crimea Peninsula to continental Russia, detonating 1,100 kilograms of explosives placed under water, informs EFE.
‘The operation lasted a few months. SBU agents have placed me in the foundations of this illegal structure. And today, without any victim among the civilian population, at the local time 04:44, the first explosive was activated, « SBU said in a statement accompanied by a video recording and a photo of the damaged bridge.
According to SBU, it is the third Ukrainian attack on this bridge built by Russian President Vladimir Putin after Russia’s annexation of the Ukrainian Peninsula Crimea in 2014.
The chief of SBU, Vasil Maliuk, personally supervised the operation.
In a statement, Maliuk said that ‘Crimea Bridge is an absolutely legitimate target’, being built to unite Russia with an occupied Ukrainian territory and also having the role of ‘logistical artery for the supply of the Russian army.
« Crimea is Ukraine and any manifestation of occupation will receive a firm answer, » Maliuk said.
Efe recalls that SBU performed on Sunday perhaps the most ambitious operation behind the enemy lines throughout the war, in a drone attack on over 40 Russian fighter jets located in several air bases inside Russia.
According to the report on the losses of the enemy, published on Tuesday by the Ukrainian General Staff, in this operation Russia lost 12 planes, and the rest of the struck flights would have been damaged.
