Today under massive rocket fire were Kyiv, Dnipro and a number of other cities of Ukraine. Vladimir Putin said that this was Russia's response to the explosions on the Crimean bridge, which in Russia was called a "terrorist attack" aimed at destroying infrastructure, which was behind the "Ukrainian special services", allegedly assisted by citizens of Russia and third countries.
What do such actions of the Kremlin say, does this mean that the Russians themselves organized the undermining of the bridge for the sake of escalation and how events may develop further in the stories in Comments experts.
Director of the International Institute of Political Philosophy, political analyst Viktor Savinov: “Giving this comment, I am sitting under fire. There were five explosions near my house in Kyiv (Khreshchatyk) in the morning, the nearest one was 200 meters from my house, 300 meters from the SBU building, was this expected?
After I found out about the explosion of the Crimean bridge, I immediately said that the Russian Federation would use it as a pretext for escalation, and it seems that they created the pretext themselves by blowing up the bridge. A terrorist state needs at least some reason to intensify its terrorist activities. What we are witnessing today in the form of missile strikes all over Ukraine, including the heart of our country - Kyiv."
According to Viktor Savinov, yesterday he spoke with friends from the USA, Great Britain and Switzerland. All of them were sure that the Kremlin was using the detonation of the Crimean bridge as a pretext for powerful strikes, up to a nuclear attack on Kyiv. "At the same time, there is already a serious shortage of missiles in the Russian Federation," the expert notes. - But even the existing arsenal is quite enough to cause enormous damage to the capital of Ukraine and other cities. Kyiv is a sacred place for humanity in general and the Slavic world in particular, to which Russians refer. Including saying that Kyiv is the mother city of Russians. Well, we once again saw how the Russian leadership treats the mother of its people...".
Mykhailo Chaplyga, a political expert emphasizes that the Russian Federation has been methodically trying to expose Ukraine as a "terrorist" for a long time, perfectly understanding that the struggle for the freedom of its state in the occupied territories has always been called a "partisan movement".
"The entire Russian political and military elite grew up in the parks of "partisan glory", exactly partisan, not terrorist glory.
Recently, all international and lobbying efforts of Russia are aimed at preventing the recognition of the Russian Federation as a state sponsor of terrorism (with all the consequences) and its inclusion in the FATF list. And, in their opinion, the best strategy is to denigrate Ukraine. The Russian Federation sponsored a number of publications in the Western press, trying to hint at Ukraine's involvement in the Dugina case, the Nord Streams case, and now the Crimean Bridge case. According to the Russian Federation, Ukraine is not a superpower that controls the whole world. Thank God, they haven't blamed changes in the climate and the earth's magnetic field yet," the expert notes.
He is sure that the explosion on the Crimean bridge is an obvious manifestation of the interdepartmental war in the Russian Federation. "No one wants to take responsibility for the shameful loss of the war in Ukraine. First, they organized a campaign in their media against the leadership of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, and then the Ministry of Defense (with an explosion on the bridge) shifted the responsibility to the FSB, Mykhailo Chaplyga explains. - But most likely, this explosion is a repetition of the "burning of the Reichstag", when it was necessary to justify the brutal actions of the Nazis. The Russian Federation desperately needs a "casus belli". It has already lost on the battlefield, and now the only option is to launch massive strikes on civilian infrastructure, which will create a humanitarian catastrophe, and they are creating an excuse."
Ex-speaker of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, military expert Vlad Voloshyn: The Crimean (Kerchen) bridge is the most important logistical artery for the Russian Federation. In particular, for the troops that are concentrated in the Crimea, on the occupied territories of the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions.
"The destruction of this object is the priority of our country. That was repeatedly stated by the higher military-political leadership. If Ukrainian special services are behind the undermining of the bridge, then they have long and carefully developed this operation. But Ukraine has not officially taken responsibility for what happened. Although the Russians must understand that we will get them everywhere, that we will fight for our territory everywhere," the expert notes.
In response, Vlad Voloshyn continues, the aggressor predictably used missile terror. We will endure. And Russia is already scared. It is in a hurry to withdraw its ships from the Crimea to other bases, withdraws some military units, tries to do something in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia directions. But they concentrated their main efforts precisely on terrorist attacks on critical infrastructure objects (primarily energy ones), just in the centers of our big cities. While the Armed Forces continue to advance and destroy the enemy army. And we cannot be stopped.
