Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, stated that Russia would respond harshly if there were more efforts to carry out terrorist attacks on the soil of Russia. He also confirmed that this morning, Russian long-range missiles attacked the Ukrainian military, communications and energy facilities. He emphasizes that Russia conducted these attacks to avenge Ukranian acts of terrorism to disturb Russia’s energy and gas transmission network, including trying to blow up a portion of the Turkish Stream gas pipeline.
According to Putin, “Operational information, forensic evidence, and other data suggest that the explosion on October 8 was a terrorist act. A terrorist assault intended to damage Russia’sRussia’s vital infrastructure for the country’s citizens. The Ukrainian secret services planned, organized and executed the terrorist act to destroy Russia’s crucial civilian infrastructure.
Russian representatives are not permitted to look into the reasons behind the explosions and the devastation of the global gas transmission networks running along the Baltic Sea’s bottom.
Russian officials identified the truck driver as Krasnodar resident Samir Yusubov, 27. The man claimed via social media that he was unrelated to what occurred on the Crimean bridge. He said his relative, who is 51 years old, was the truck driver. Samir Yusubov has left Russia already. They searched his Krasnodar flat.
This morning, a number of rocket strikes were made in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and neighbouring locations. Numerous injuries and at least five confirmed fatalities were recorded. 75 Russian missiles were reportedly fired at Ukraine this morning, according to Kyiv.
Putin, the president of Russia, has been charged with terrorism by Ukrainian authorities. These are the first attacks in months on the Ukrainian capital. The attacks were conducted a few hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin labelled the bombing of the Crimean bridge Kerge as an act of terrorism.