Who - or what - caused the Crimean bridge explosion?
What do we know about what caused Saturday's dramatic explosion on the Kerch Bridge?Russia was quick to suggest this was a truck bomb, but didn't say who orchestrated it.
Russian officials named a 25-year old Krasnodar man, Samir Yusubov, as the owner of the truck, and said an older relative, Makhir Yusubov, was the driver. The speed with which the truck bomb theory started to spread in Russian circles was suspicious. It suggested the Kremlin preferred an act of terrorism to a more alarming possibility: that this was an audacious act of sabotage carried out by Ukraine.
"Bridges are generally designed to resist downwards loads on the deck and a certain amount of side loading from the wind," he said. "They are not generally engineered to resist upward loads. I think this fact was exploited in the Ukrainian attack." This is not the first time reports have circulated suggesting that Ukraine has access to such clandestine equipment.
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