Russia’s FSB Stopped Ukrainian Plot To Blow Up Crimean Kerch Bridge

Aug. 19—The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) thwarted a Ukrainian attempt to launch a terrorist attack on the Crimean-Kerch Bridge, aimed at sabotaging talks on resolving the Ukraine conflict, said Rodion Miroshnik, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s ambassador-at-large in charge of overseeing the Kiev regime’s crimes, reported TASS on Aug. 18. “Against the backdrop of the emerging negotiation process, a new attempt [was made] by Ukraine and its allies to carry out a terrorist attack as a provocation to disrupt the talks and the search for a peaceful resolution,” Miroshnik wrote on his Telegram channel.

A Chevrolet Volt with a powerful improvised explosive device inside was traced and the bomb was defused.

RT reported Aug. 18: “According to the FSB, the rigged vehicle had crossed into Russia from Georgia. The Ukrainian plan was to deliver the Chevrolet to Russia’s southern Krasnodar Region via a car transporter truck and then ‘pass it on to another driver, who was supposed to ride in it to Russia’s Crimea via the Crimean Bridge and become an unwitting suicide bomber,’ the agency said.” Some 130kg of Finnish-made explosives had been packed into the Chevrolet Volt.

On Oct. 8, 2022, the Ukrainian intelligence service detonated a truck bomb on the Kerch Bridge, which exploded and damaged the roadway, causing sections to collapse into the sea, and also ignited fuel tanks on a passing train. Russian officials reported that the explosion killed three people. The Ukrainian Security Service has claimed responsibility for using underwater explosives to target the bridge.