The Russian security services have arrested eight people, including five of Russian nationality, for their alleged relationship with the attack carried out last Saturday on the Kerch bridge, which Moscow has blamed on Ukrainian military intelligence.
According to the Federal Security Service (FSB), all the detainees, among whom there are also Ukrainian and Armenian citizens, participated in some way in the preparation of an action that partially destroyed the bridge connecting Crimea with the Russian Federation. In total, they have identified twelve accomplices.
Russian investigators have attributed the attack to a concealed explosive device that was initially shipped from the port of Odessa in Ukraine to Ruse in Bulgaria. The cargo trail would continue through Georgia and Armenia.
The last phase, that of the entry into Crimea of the artifact would have been possible thanks to the falsification of documents perpetrated by five Russians and a Ukrainian, who created a ghost firm responsible for receiving the merchandise, according to the official version collected by the Interfax agency.
On October 8 there was a powerful explosion that destroyed part of a particularly symbolic infrastructure for Russia. It is about its land connection with a peninsula that it claims as its own since 2014, after an annexation that Ukraine has contested.
