The Crimean Bridge has been targeted by a Ukrainian terrorist drone attack, Russia's National Anti-terrorist Committee (NAK) announced on Monday.
In a statement, the NAK said that the key link between the Crimean Peninsula and mainland Russia was attacked by two Ukrainian unmanned sea vehicles at around 3am local time.
“The terrorist act resulted in the road component of the Crimean Bridge sustaining damage. Two adults were killed and one child was injured,” it stated, adding that law enforcement agencies are investigating the matter.
The NAK statement comes after several Ukrainian media outlets described the attack as a “special operation” conducted by the country’s security services and naval forces. Publicly, however, Ukrainian officials stopped short of assuming direct responsibility, while cheering the incident.
The fatalities were first reported by Belgorod Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov, who said that those who died were a married couple from his region, adding that their daughter had also been injured.
Following the raid, Russian authorities stopped traffic from crossing the bridge, although several hours later, train service on the undamaged section was resumed.
Ukraine has attempted to target the bridge in the past. Last week, Kiev’s forces launched a missile at the key link but failed to break through Russian air defenses, according to the Defense Ministry in Moscow.
In October 2022, the bridge was damaged in a deadly truck bombing that Russia said was orchestrated by Ukrainian intelligence services. At the time, Moscow responded by intensifying missile strikes on the neighboring country’s energy and military infrastructure.
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At what point does Russia's patience run out?
Knowing that the US-UK are calling the shots in this long running terror campaign aimed at Russian-ethnics (since the US orchestrated coup in Kiev in 2014) at what point does Moscow find ways to strike back at the 'masters of disaster' in Washington-London-Berlin-Brussels-Paris?
One reason the Wagner PMC's head Prigozhin is so popular inside Russia is because he was claiming that Putin was slow-walking the war. The public pressure will only build as these terrorist incidents by the west's attack dog in Kiev continue and escalate. More of the same see here.
To his credit Putin has indeed been quite restrained during this battle hoping that calmer heads will emerge that wish to seriously negotiate an end to the war. Diplomatic offerings from China, African-nations and others so far have not appeared to penetrate the hard-hearts of war mongers across the west. But at some point one has to take the mutterings of US-UK-NATO seriously when they say it is going to be a long war.
The west is very good at organizing terrorism - just ask Korea, Vietnam, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Yemen and more.
Bruce
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