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| FSB prevents car bomb attack on Crimean Bridge |
| 2025-08-19 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Federal Security Service (FSB) officers prevented a terrorist attack on the Crimean Bridge, which was planned by Ukrainian special services. On Monday, August 18, the FSB Public Relations Center (PRC) reported that the sabotage was being prepared using a mined car. According to the department, a powerful homemade explosive device was in a Chevrolet Volt, which arrived in Russia in transit through several countries. The car entered the territory of the Russian Federation through the Verkhniy Lars checkpoint in North Ossetia. The plan was for another driver in Russia to take the wheel and head to Crimea across the bridge, unaware that he was carrying a bomb, thus becoming an unwitting suicide bomber. The FSB noted that despite the attempts of the Ukrainian special services to carefully disguise the explosive device, it was discovered and neutralized in a timely manner. In addition, it was possible to detain everyone involved in organizing the delivery of the explosives. A criminal case was opened on this fact. The special service also published footage of the arrest of those planning to commit a terrorist attack and the inspection of a mined car. This is the second attempt by Ukrainian special services in 2025 to sabotage the Crimean Bridge using a car bomb. On April 2, Belarusian security forces detained a minibus containing more than 500 kg of synthetic explosives at the Brest customs office on the Belarusian-Polish section of the Union State border. It was also intended to commit a terrorist attack on the Crimean Bridge. According to the department's employees, in that case the driver also did not know that he was carrying explosives and was supposed to be a suicide bomber. The head of the Russian Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, said at the end of July that five citizens of Ukraine and Georgia were put on the wanted list during the investigation of the terrorist attack on the Crimean Bridge in 2022. According to him, all these individuals were charged in absentia with committing a terrorist attack, as well as with illegal trafficking and smuggling of explosive devices. |
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