The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has blamed Ukraine for the blast at the Kerch Bridge linking Russia and Crimea, describing it as a 'terrorist act' carried out by the 'special services of Ukraine' in a video released on the Kremlin’s Telegram channel.
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'There's no doubt it was a terrorist act directed at the destruction of critically important civilian infrastructure of the Russian Federation,' Putin said in the video of a meeting with the chairman of Russia’s Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin. Crimea was illegally annexed by Putin in 2014 and is not Russian territory.

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