Who blew up the Kerch bridge? One of President Zelensky’s most senior advisers, Mikhailo Podolyak, has suggested that the Russians did it themselves. ‘Isn’t it obvious who made an explosion?’ he asked on Twitter. ‘Truck arrived from RF (Russian Federation).’ Officially, the Ukrainian government is saying nothing: its secret service has said it will remain quiet until after the war. Zelensky himself has so far refrained from commenting on the attack, except to say that the ‘weather has been cloudy in Crimea.’
If indeed they were responsible, why would the Ukrainians not claim responsibility for a sabotage attack of high sophistication that caused widespread jubilation in Ukraine and across the world? The answer may lie in the details of the attack’s planning and execution that have emerged on anonymous, pro-Kremlin channels of the Telegram messenger and news service.
According to the ‘112’ Telegram channel, quoting Russian police sources, the truck that exploded on the bridge was driven by one Makhir Yusubov, a former resident of Kazan, Tatarstan.
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