Moscow court arrests three Russians with regard to Crimean bridge explosion case

A court in Moscow has sent three Russian nationals to a pre-trial detention facility with regard to the Crimean bridge explosion case, a Moscow courts Telegram channel and Interfax report.

Alexander Bylin, Oleg Antipov and Dmitry Tyazhelykh are the men in question, they will be locked up in a pre-trial detention facility until 8 December. The three are charged with committing an act of terrorism.

A court in Simferopol arrested and sent five defendants in a criminal case on the Crimean bridge explosion to a pre-trial detention centre until 8 December on 14 October.

The bridge connecting Russia and Crimea suffered a heavy explosion on 8 October. The bridge partially collapsed, and a freight train transporting fuel caught fire; four people were reported dead.

Vladimir Putin called the Crimean bridge explosion “a terror attack against Russia’s essential infrastructure” and accused Ukraine’s secretive agencies of preparing the attack. Russia’s FSB accused Kyrylo Budanov, the head of Ukraine’s Defence Ministry Intelligence, of organising the Crimean bridge explosion.