{"id":155352,"date":"2025-06-03T17:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T17:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/155352\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T17:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T17:31:09","slug":"russian-investigators-blame-ukraine-for-deadly-bridge-blasts-near-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/155352\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Investigators Blame Ukraine for Deadly Bridge Blasts Near Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"160\" data-end=\"369\">Russian investigators on Tuesday <a href=\"https:\/\/sledcom.ru\/news\/item\/1989168\/\" title=\"accused\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accused<\/a> Ukraine of orchestrating the detonation of two bridges in border regions that killed at least seven people and injured more than 100 others.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"160\" data-end=\"369\">\u201cIt is clear that the terrorists, acting on the orders of the Kyiv regime, deliberately planned everything with maximum precision to ensure that hundreds of civilians would be caught in their attacks,\u201d\u00a0Investigative Committee spokeswoman Svetlana Petrenko said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"160\" data-end=\"369\">Russia\u2019s Investigative Committee, which probes major crimes, said it found fragments of explosive devices at the sites of the collapsed highway bridge in the Bryansk region and the railway bridge in the Kursk region.\u00a0Both incidents took place Saturday night and are being investigated as acts of terrorism.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"160\" data-end=\"369\">The bridge explosion in Bryansk killed seven people and injured 113 others, while three train employees were injured in the collapse in the Kursk region.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"524\" data-end=\"772\">Investigators had initially\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.themoscowtimes.com\/2025\/06\/01\/seven-dead-dozens-hurt-as-russian-bridges-near-ukraine-collapse-a89289\" title=\"described\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">described<\/a> the incidents as \u201cdetonations\u201d and \u201cacts of terrorism,\u201d but that language was later <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/vottaktv\/63481\" title=\"removed\">removed<\/a> from official statements. Until Tuesday, investigators had referred to the incidents only as \u201ccollapses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"998\" data-end=\"1049\">No group has claimed responsibility for the blasts.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"998\" data-end=\"1049\">\u201cWith assistance from the FSB and Russia\u2019s Interior Ministry, the organizers and perpetrators of these inhumane crimes will be identified and brought to justice,\u201d spokeswoman Petrenko said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russian investigators on Tuesday accused Ukraine of orchestrating the detonation of two bridges in border regions that killed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[66003,2000,299,32478,19275,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-155352","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-bryansk","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-investigative-committee","12":"tag-kursk","13":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114620627944690093","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}