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Russian services detained a car with 130 kg. of explosives intended to blow up the Crimean bridge

The terrorist act was supposed to be committed by an unsuspecting driver

In the village of Staronizhestebliyevskaya in the Krasnodar Territory of Russia, people were detained who were transporting a car with a disguised explosive device for a terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge, the failure of which was reported by the FSB, RIA Novosti reported.

The accomplices of the Ukrainian special services, who were transporting a car full of explosives on a car carrier, were detained by the roadside. There is a grain processing plant nearby, and a train station is a three-minute drive away.

According to the FSB, the car was supposed to be handed over to another driver, who in turn was supposed to drive it to the Crimean Bridge “and become an unwitting suicide bomber“.

On Monday, the Federal Security Service reported the failure of another attempt by Ukrainian special services to detonate a powerful bomb on the Crimean Bridge, planted in a car that was supposed to be driven by an unsuspecting suicide bomber.

According to the FSB, the explosive device was carefully concealed in a Chevrolet Volt. It was delivered to Russia from Ukraine through a number of countries and most recently entered the country from Georgia through the international checkpoint “Verkhny Lars“. The head of Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, announced that the car that was planned to be blown up on the Crimean Bridge was filled with 130 kilograms of explosives.