President RussianVladimir Putin will meet his Security Council on Monday, two days after a strong explosion partially destroyed the Crimean bridge, the only one linking the annexed Ukrainian peninsula with Russia.
“Tomorrow the president will hold a meeting with the permanent members of the Security Council,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov said today, quoted by Eph.
He did not specify whether the meeting, of which only the president’s introductory speech is normally seen on public television, will address the situation of the bridge, but normally these types of meetings are held more in the middle or at the end of the week, points out the Spanish agency agency.
Putin commissioned the Federal Security Service (FSB, former KGB) on Saturday to strengthen infrastructure protection measures, a personal project of the president that cost some 3.5 billion dollars.
In addition, he created a government commission that must investigate the circumstances of the explosion, which occurred early on Saturday morning when a truck blew up on the automobile part of the bridge and caused a fire in seven fuel tanks on a train. on the adjacent railway line.
At least three dead in strong explosion on bridge between Crimea and Russia
Russia’s Investigative Committee has so far reported at least three dead in the attack, which some Russian lawmakers and local authorities in Crimea attribute to Ukraine, as do Ukrainian media. kyiv, beyond celebrating the explosion with derision, has not officially ruled on the authorship.
The explosion that occurred on Saturday morning threw one of the tracks of the bridge, inaugurated in 2018, into the sea, recalls the newspaper The world: the infrastructure is the symbol of the annexation of Crimea by Russia in 2014, and has served to supply the Russian troops deployed in Ukraine.
With information from EFE.
