October 12th, 2022, 05:25am.
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) arrested eight people it claimed were involved in the attack on the bridge connecting Russia with the annexed territory of Crimea.
There is an explosion at the bridge.
Russian news agency Tass reported that the FSB had arrested seven people, including five Russians and three Ukrainians.
The domestic intelligence agency says it has identified 12 people who are connected to the bridge blast.
The explosives used to carry out the blast traveled from the Ukrainian port of Odesa to Armenia, via Bulgaria and Georgia, before arriving at a shell entity.
The amount of explosives used in the attack was 22 tons.
The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defence Ministry was blamed by the FSB for the attack on the bridge.
The only bridge connecting Russia with the annexed territory of Crimea was destroyed on Saturday. The explosion was called an act of terrorism by Putin a day later. There was an explosion on the road bridge and a train carrying fuel exploded on the rail bridge, which caught fire for several hours. A senior military official told the New York Times that the attack was a success and that it was probably the work of the Ukrainians.
In response to the blast, Russia launched a series of missile strikes on major Ukrainian cities, killing 19 people and wounding more than 100. Russia has been accused of engaging in terrorism by targeting civilians by the west. Putin has threatened to carry out more strikes but the feasibility of such an approach has been questioned due to Russia's thin supply of precision-guided weapons.
The International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General said on Tuesday that the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant had lost all external power for the second time in a week. Russian forces are preventing the Ukrainian state-run Energoatom from delivering more diesel to the site, despite the fact that the plant's systems are running on backup diesel generators. The power supply is needed to keep the safety and security systems running.
Putin allies want more attacks on Ukraine.
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