"The head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), Vasyl Malyuk, told about how the Kerch Bridge bombing was prepared on October 8, 2022.
According to him, the explosives were hidden in rolls of film, its total capacity was 21 tons of TNT equivalent.
At the same time, all the Russians transporting the explosives, as well as the truck driver who died at the time of the explosion, were used “in the dark”.
“We have gone through seven circles of hell, used so many people in the dark! The Russians “closed” 22 people - imprisoned them. They incriminate all of them for complicity in a terrorist act. Although in fact they were engaged in their usual routine business. They were just ordinary Russian smugglers”.
Photo of preparation of rolls with explosives: SBU"
Second explosion
After the " first test of the pen", the SBU immediately began to develop a new attack on the bridge.
A major role in the implementation of this idea was played by the head of one of the military counter-intelligence departments, a pseudo officer called Hunter, who contributed to the creation of naval drones.
Ukrainian special services created explosive-filled remotely controlled kamikaze watercraft, made of a unique material invisible to enemy radars, the design of which provided for three types of control and self-destruction in case of need.
The appearance of the maritime drones developed by the SBU, which were used to attack the Crimean bridge (Photo: SBU press service) The appearance of the maritime drones developed by the SBU, which were used to attack the Crimean bridge / Photo: press service of the SBU For the first time in the circumstances of a real battle, engineers and specialists of the SBU tested floating drones on ships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, when the missile frigates Admiral Makarov and Admiral Essen attacked in the Sevastopol Bay last fall. The latter, after this special operation, stood in the dock for a long time for repairs.
Realizing that drones are not capable of sinking large ships, the amount of explosives on them was increased to 850 kg of hexane. They also modernized the drone control system, receiving a qualitatively new model of the surface " Avenger".
Malyuk enlisted the cooperation of the commander of the Navy, Oleksiy Neizhpapa, who provided significant assistance in the implementation of the entire project. The combined team of the fleet and special services began to prepare a naval operation to blow up the Crimean bridge.
The drones continued to be improved, even installing two high-range Shmel-M jet flamethrowers on the hull. There were other know-how, the details of which have not yet been disclosed by the SBU. Modified drones were ready to perform extremely difficult tasks.
In mid-July, the SBU and the Navy finally released the drones into the open sea, directing them to the target. “We stayed awake for two nights - literally every minute we were watching the drones. We were on such a drive that we had to calm down the guys a little so that they wouldn’t chase the drones,” recalls Malyuk.
In the end, the drones hit the support of the bridge, throwing from it, judging by the photos released later, the entire span of its car part.
" When the explosion happened, we screamed very loudly, because the tension inside was huge," Malyuk admits. - I’ll be honest: I prayed that everything would work out. And when the drone exploded, we also “exploded” with joy.
Legitimate purpose
The head of the SBU, describing to NV the details of the attacks on the Crimean bridge, emphasized several times: these operations were prepared exclusively by the forces of Ukraine, and no foreign special services were involved in them.
Similarly, Malyuk clarified that the Crimean bridge is a legitimate goal for Ukraine. For example, the Geneva Conventions, which regulate certain rules of warfare, do not contain a ban on attacking such objects. And the Liber Code — the Instruction for the management of the active US army — defined as a legitimate goal " obstructing the ways and channels of movement, movement or communication."
In his turn, Valery Kondratyuk, the former head of the GUR and ex-explorer of the Foreign Intelligence Service, commenting on the actions of his colleagues from the SBU, assures that the operations with the bridge were carried out in such a way as to cause maximum damage to the Kremlin and to maintain good relations with Western partners.
“It is a very delicate job for the special services to be effective and to succeed in operations, balancing between the fears of foreigners before a nuclear war,” Kondratyuk believes. “This formula encapsulates the hard work and titanic self-sacrifice of Ukrainians.”
