Putin meets with Security Council after explosion at Crimean bridge
Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with the Security Council today, a day after accusing Ukraine of being behind the powerful explosion that partially destroyed the Crimean bridge, the only bridge connecting the annexed Ukrainian peninsula to Russia. The Kremlin only confirmed the meeting, but did not specify whether the meeting, which normally only shows the president’s introductory speech on public television, would address the bridge situation.
However, such meetings are usually held in the middle or end of the week. “Authors, practitioners and clients are Ukraine’s secret service,” he said in a meeting with Alexandr Bastrikin, head of the Investigative Committee the day before, describing the incident as “a terrorist act aimed at destruction.” A critically important civilian infrastructure of the Russian Federation”. Bastrikin claimed that “Russian citizens and foreign countries assisted the Ukrainian secret services in the preparation”.