Molfar, a global open-source intelligence community, has published a report pointing to a lack of damage on the road surface itself as another reason to doubt the Russian theory while postulating: 'The bridge could be blown up from below.' Just days before the explosion, a mysterious craft that appeared to be some kind of unmanned boat had washed up in Crimea - with analysts concluding it may have been a Ukrainian drone. Given there were no such waves under other parts of the bridge, analysts say it could indicate that some kind of aquatic drone was involved. Some have pointed to an alternative CCTV showing underneath the bridge, that appears to capture a small wave just before the bridge comes down.
While it does show a truck and overtaking car heading along the bridge before the explosion, the moment of the blast itself is nothing more than a white flash - making it impossible to say where it came from. Russian claims that a truck bomb was responsible for the blast have also been questioned.ĬCTV of the blast is inconclusive. Ukraine has called the FSB's allegations 'nonsense' and has not claimed responsibility for the blast, which partially crippled the main road and rail link between Russia and occupied Crimea. The FSB says accompanying paperwork was changed at least twice to conceal its origins, under the direct orders of Ukrainian security service chief Kirill Budanov. They say the bomb - disguised as industrial plastic sheeting - began its journey in Odesa, in southern Ukraine, before going via Bulgaria to Armenia, then across Georgia and into Russia before it was diverted to Simferopol, in Crimea.Īt some point a truck carrying the device was X-rayed. Moscow's spies say the men - five Russians and three people from Ukraine and Armenia - worked with a Ukrainian agent named 'Ivan Ivanovic' to ship the 23-ton device through four countries over two months before it detonated on the bridge. The FSB has arrested eight people over the Crimean bridge attack while revealing an X-ray of what it says was the bomb that caused the blast.
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