Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told the Kyiv regime would have more retaliatory strikes aside from this first incident. He added that the Ukrainian government would be subject to dismantling as one of Moscow's goals.
Russia Strikes Back After Crimea Bridge Attack
Medvedev, the current deputy chairman of the country's Security Council, said it was just the start of the first episode, reported Anadolu.
On his Telegram account, the former president said it is only the first, more to come, and called dismantling the Ukrainian state necessary. He stressed that as his personal opinion that the current Ukrainian leadership, with its Nazi sympathizing leaning, is and always be a constant existential threat to Russia, noted Yenisafak.
The Former Russian president has a reputation for loud and bellicose statements publicly, even on the deployment of nuclear weapons.
On Monday, Russian president Vladimir Putin said the attack on the Kerch Bridge was the reason for retaliation against the Zelensky regime and accused Ukrainian intelligence services as the alleged author of the assault on the Crimean Bridge.
Even if Ukrainians had not admitted to the regretful incident, the way senior Ukrainian officials worded their statements after Saturday was suspect.A remark by Ukrainian Presidential aide Mykhailo Podolyak stated the blast is just the start.
Russian Ministry of Defense Reacts
A missile attack aimed at Ukrainian military objects and facilities has achieved its goal, the Russian Defense Ministry stated on Monday. The attack occurred after Moscow suspected Kyiv of organizing a dangerous blast on the strategically important Crimean Bridge, citing RT.
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Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov mentioned at a regular briefing that Moscow was using high-precision and long-range weapons to target objects on Ukrainian territories, such as key military facilities, communication systems, and power sources.
He added the intended targets of the missile assault were struck, and none was missed. These comments came several hours after Moscow ordered targets struck by multiple missile strikes.
The mayor, Vitaly Klitschko, claimed that "critical infrastructure" had been harmed. The main office of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) did appear to have also been struck by the attack, according to Anton Gerashchenko, a consultant to the interior minister.
Together with Kyiv, many Ukrainian cities, like Dnepr in the east and Lviv in the west, were punished. As a result of the strikes, the power supply had been partly interrupted in those other regions of the country, as said by Ukrainian authorities, who also reported power outages in the regions of Lviv, Poltava, Sumy, Kharkov, and Ternopol.
Last Monday, Vladimir Putin reiterated, as a stern warning, that if Ukraine does not stop its terrorist attack against Russia, which will meet a worse response than the prior missile attacks.
The Saturday blast on the Kerch Bridge was rocked by an intense explosion that ended the lives of three civilians and partly collapsed part of the road section. A blaze on the rail tracks was registered on the parallel span of the bridge.
This incident drew suspicions from Moscow who did the attack on the civilian infrastructure threatened an escalation in the Ukraine conflict. Former Russian President Medvedev did not mince his words to the Kyiv regime that retaliatory strikes would be forthcoming.
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