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Russia has blamed Ukraine for the deadly blast on the bridge linking Crimea to Russia. During a meeting with the head of the investigation committee on Sunday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the authors, perpetrators and sponsors were related to the Ukrainian secret services. Mr Putin has ordered the creation of a commission to look into the Crimea bridge blast, and the Russian leader will chair a scheduled meeting of his Security Council today.
Meanwhile, in a statement, Russia’s Federal Security Service, which is responsible for border security, has said that since the start of October, the number of attacks from Ukrainian armed formations on Russia’s border territory has considerably increased.The statement said that more than a hundred artillery attacks, concentrated on the western border regions of Belgorod, Bryansk and Kursk, have hit housing and administrative buildings. The governor of Kursk region, Roman Starovoyt, said Ukrainian fire had hit the Garnalski Saint Nicolas monastery on the border.
In a separate development,Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has denounced a Russian missile strike yesterday that killed at least 13 people in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia.