Responsibility for the attack on the bridge connecting Russia to Crimea remains a controversial subject. All analysts get bogged down in guesswork, failing to find evidence one way or the other.
The official Russian version is that a truck was used as a vehicle for a large charge of explosives.
In this context, the Federal Security Service (FSB) made eight arrests of suspects: five Russian citizens and three Ukrainians and/or Armenians (without further details).
The explosive charges believed to have originally been packaged in rolls of plastic wrap are believed to have left the port of Odessa in August. But the evidence presented by the Russian press has inconsistencies. Namely that the scan showing the “explosives” would not correspond to the suspected vehicle (source: Rebecca Rambar’s site).
They would then have passed through Bulgaria and then Georgia (maritime transfer to avoid Turkey is possible, which saves Ankara from explaining why this truck would not have been properly inspected when it was transiting Turkish soil), Armenia before entering Russia. There, geographically, there is an impossibility since Armenia has no common border with Russia…
The FSB accuses Ukrainian military intelligence (Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine also known as the HUR MO or GUR) and its director, Major General Kyrylo Budanov of masterminding the attack. Twelve other people are also said to have been identified as “accomplices”.
The Ukrainian authorities vigorously contest this investigation and their enemy represented by the FSB. For the moment, kyiv must not be involved in this operation, which was directed against what Moscow considers to be its “territory” because Crimea has been annexed since 2014. If the affair becomes official, Moscow’s reactions could be even more important and deadly.
The future will undoubtedly give the key to the enigma because those who participated in this operation (like those who participated in the plasticing of the NordStream 1&2 gas pipelines) will not one day resist the attraction of boasting about it.
1. See “Destruction of the NordStream 1&2 gas pipelines” of September 30, 2022.
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