Attack on the Crimean bridge: Vladimir Putin accuses the Ukrainian services

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with the head of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin during their meeting in Saint Petersburg, this Sunday, October 9, 2022. AP - Gavriil Grigorov

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Vladimir Putin will convene his Security Council on Monday in Moscow.

During an exchange with the head of the committee of inquiry into the Crimean bridge affair, this Sunday, October 9, he denounced a “ 

 ” fomented by the Ukrainian secret services.

This meeting between security force officials could be an opportunity for Russia to announce a military response.

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With our correspondent in Moscow,

Forty-eight hours after the explosion of the Crimean bridge, the investigation committee unveiled its first conclusions to the Russian president.

agents

with the help of Russian citizens and foreign nationals.

The Kremlin has just broadcast an exchange between the head of the commission of inquiry into the explosion of the Kerch bridge and V Putin.

Bastrykin telling #Putin that the FSB thinks the attack on the Kerch bridge was carried out by the Ukrainian secret service 1/2

— Anissa El Jabri (@anissaeljabri) October 9, 2022

With the help of Russians and foreign nationals.

V Putin: "This is a terrorist attack aimed at destroying Russia's essential civilian infrastructure" 2/2

— Anissa El Jabri (@anissaeljabri) October 9, 2022

Surprisingly, these accusations bring together everything that the Kremlin

in Ukraine and therefore sound like the signal of a strong announcement to come.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, speaks to the head of the investigative committee Alexander Bastrykin during their meeting in Saint Petersburg, this Sunday, October 9, 2022. AP - Gavriil Grigorov

A few minutes earlier, another worrying signal had been sent by the Russian security services, the FSB.

According to them, Ukraine

its firing on Russian territory in recent days.

The services do not specify whether they are talking about Russian territory or Ukrainian territories recently annexed by Moscow.

But these accusations sound like a second worrying signal.

Everything therefore suggests that the Security Council convened by Vladimir Putin could be the subject of a strong declaration, a response to all the humiliations suffered by the army and the authorities in recent weeks.

However, the Kremlin told Russian journalists responsible for following presidential news that the attack on the Crimean bridge would not lead to the use of nuclear weapons.

The Kremlin tells journalists in the pool that the attack on the Crimean bridge will not involve the use of nuclear weapons.

https://t.co/KrVF9xT0Zd

— Paul Gogo (@Paugog) October 9, 2022

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