Posted on 10/09/2022 3:35:49 PM PDT by Mariner
ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday called the attack that damaged the huge bridge connecting Russia to its annexed territory of Crimea “a terrorist act” masterminded by Ukrainian special services.
The Kerch Bridge, which holds important strategic and symbolic value to Russia in its faltering war in Ukraine, was hit a day earlier by what Moscow has said was a truck bomb. Road and rail traffic on the bridge were temporarily halted, damaging a vital supply route for the Kremlin’s forces.
“There’s no doubt it was a terrorist act directed at the destruction of critically important civilian infrastructure of the Russian Federation,” Putin said during a meeting with the chairman of Russia’s Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin. "And the authors, perpetrators, and those who ordered it are the special services of Ukraine.”
Bastrykin said Ukrainian special services and citizens of Russia and other countries took part in the attack. He said a criminal investigation had been launched into an act of terror.
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Putin got it wrong.
“Putin accuses Ukraine of terrorism?" he said. "It has not even been 24 hours since Russian planes fired 12 rockets into a residential area of Zaporizhzhia, killing 13 people and injuring more than 50. No, there is only one state terrorist and the whole world knows who he is.”
That "residential area" is more properly characterized as barracks.
The minister got it wrong.
War is terrorism
Russian attack on Ukraine is the real terrorist attack!
It’s not terrorism if WE do it...
He probably called it Kiev
This from the clown who supported Bader Meinhoff, Red October, and the Weather Underground.
Read the Venona Papers.
L
It’s war so... STFU stupid.
Life’s just tough all over.
yep!
first of all it isn’t your bridge Putin!
2nd of all, the only terrorist in this whole matter is you!
There is no terrorism in war Mr Hammer and Sickle 😭😭😭
Exactly!
The destruction of the bridge conforms perfectly to the laws and usages of war.
Ukrainian attacks on Russians are the real terrorism.
Crimea voted 95% to remain with Russia. The other 5% are probably CIA...
The Venona papers covered signals intercepts in the 1940s.
But good point re Baader Meinhof, etc. Putin was posted in Germany during his KGB days, and he may well have had something to do with the Red Army Faction and Baader Meinhof.
I call it war
If you had a gun pointed at you, I’m sure you would vote in Russia’s favor, too. I saw the videos and pictures of just that
All acts of war are effectively terrorism. That is kind of the entire point.
I think it was the Germans
While Russia levels apartment block
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