“With the help of FSB operatives, we managed to identify suspects from among those who could have been preparing a terrorist attack,” Bastrykin said at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Bastrykin also said that after the incident on the Crimean bridge, a case was opened under the article “Terrorism”.

Vladimir Putin said that the special services of Ukraine were the customers, authors and executors of the undermining of the Crimean bridge.