Sabotage of Ukraine? – Bridges collapsed: Russia speaks of “terror”

“The given incidents were qualified as a terrorist law,” said the spokeswoman for the investigative committee, Swetlana Petrenko, the Interfax News Agency. The authority, which investigated serious crimes, said that both bridges had been blown up.

Two trains derailed, 7 dead
In the night of Sunday there were two incidents in the areas that borders Ukraine adjacent to Kursk and Brjansk, in which trains derailed as a collecting bridge. Seven people were killed in Brjansk and at least 71 injured. In Kursk the authorities speak of an injured person.

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There should also be damage in a third place in Russia. The Reuters news agency reports on damaged traces in the Brjansk region. However, there were no injuries. It is unclear whether this third incident is related to the two bridge accidents.

Putin informs about incidents
According to Kremlangaben, Russian President Vladimir Putin called the head of the Russian railway and the governor of the Brjansk region, Alexander Bogomas.

Russian politicians spoke of Sabotage and blamed Ukraine for the rays of the bridges. “All this is intended to harden the position of the Russian Federation and to feed aggression before negotiations,” said the chairman of the defense committee in Duma, Andrej Kartapolow. Since the start of the war, Ukrainian secret services have regularly committed sabotage files and attacks on the Russian field.

The recent incidents took place one day before the planned discussions between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul about a ceasefiring -the war in the war.

Ukraine: no explanation, but reporting on train explosion
There was no explanation of Ukraine about the allegations. The Ukrainian Military Intelligence Agency, however, announced that he had blown up a freight train in the part of the Saporischschja area governed by Russian troops. The incident took place on Saturday evening.

A train with fuel tanks and freight wagons was derailed on the track bed because of an explosion, according to the statement. It was a military train that drove in the direction of the Black Zeegiereiland Crim, annexed by Russia. The explosion has interrupted an important logistics traffic artery of the Russian army in the occupied territories of the Saporischschja and De Krim region. Russia did not comment on the incident. The information could not be checked independently in the beginning.

Serious damage in Brjansk
With regard to the collapse in Brjansk, the State Moscow -railway company had stated that this was “the result of an illegal intervention in transport”. The passenger train was on the route between Klimow and Moscow and derailed by the collapse of the bridge.

Rescue workers published in online networks showed rescue workers for a huge rubble. A train from the Russian railway company was apparently buried under it. Another video showed screaming people in need and to help people. “There are children in it,” a woman who is called desperate. Pages published online of the Russian authorities also showed a collapsed part of the bridge and damaged vehicles. The rescue workers were therefore used all night.

The consequences of the second fall in the bridge were less dramatic: a train in the Kursk region derailed on a destroyed railway bridge. “A part of the train fell on a street under the bridge,” said the governor of the region, Alexander Chinstein. The locomotive caught fire that was quickly removed. One of the drivers sustained leg injuries.