Bridge explosions in Russia in the vicinity of Ukraine escalate tensions prior to peace talks

• At least seven people were killed and 69 injured when two bridges were blown up in individual Russian regions that borders Ukraine, Russian officials said on Sunday.
• The Russian investigation committee has linked the incidents and explicitly said that both bridges were blown up.
• The explosions took place before planned peace talks aimed at ending the war in Ukraine.

At least seven people were killed and 69 injured when two bridges were blown up separately Russian regions that borders Ukraine In anticipation of planned peace talks aimed at the termination of the three -year -old war in Ukraine, Russian officials said on Sunday.

A highway bridge over a railroad in the Bryansk region was blown up on Saturday evening at 10:50 am (1950 GMT), just like a passenger train with 388 passengers to Moscow, Russian researchers said.

Only four hours later, a railway bridge was blown up on a highway in the neighboring Kursk region, which showered the road with parts of a freight train, the researchers said.

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The Russian investigation committee, which investigates serious crimes, connected the incidents and said explicitly that both bridges were blown up.

In the Bryansk region, social media photos and videos showed passengers who tried to climb out of broken carriages in the dark. Part of the passenger train was crushed under a collapsed road bridge and destroyed carriages lay next to the lines.

“The bridge was blown up while the Klimovo-Moskou train continued with 388 passengers on board,” Alexander Bogomaz, the governor of the region, told Russian television.

The Russian investigation committee, which investigates serious crimes, connected the incidents and said explicitly that both bridges were blown up.

There was no immediate comment from Ukraine about the incidents, which took place only one day before the United States want Russia and Ukraine to sit down to immediately discuss conversations in Istanbul to discuss a possible end to a war that, according to Washington, killed and injured at least 1.2 million people.

The Hur Military Intelligence Agency of Ukraine said on Sunday that an explosion had derailed a Russian military train that had drawn freight and fuel trucks near the settlement of Yakymivka, in a Russian-controlled part of the Zaporizhzhia region.

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The agency claimed no responsibility or attributed the explosion to someone, although Ukraine has demanded a series of attacks deep in Russia in the past.

Sabotage?

Russian politicians stood in line to blame Ukraine and said that it was clearly sabotage aimed at derailing the peace talks that the United States demanded.

“This is definitely the work of the Ukrainian special services,” said the chairman of the Defense Committee of the Lower House of the Russian Parliament, Andrei Kartapolov, at the Schot Telegram Channel.

“All this is aimed at hardening the position of the Russian federation and burning aggression before the negotiations. And also to intimidate people. But they will not succeed.”

President Vladimir Putin was informed about the explosions of the bridge by the Federal Security Service (FSB) and the Ministry of Emergency during the night, the Kremlin said. Putin also spoke with the governor of Bryansk, Alexander Bogomaz.

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US President Donald Trump has demanded that the parties are making peace and he has threatened to run away if they do not – possibly stimulate responsibility for supporting Ukraine on the shoulders of European powers.

But while politicians talk about peace negotiations, the war is warmed up, with swarms of drones launched by both Russia and Ukraine and Russian troops that go along the front in the front in the east of Ukraine.

Ukraine has not promised the Conversations in TurkeySaying that it first had to see to see the Russian proposals, while a prominent American senator Moscow warned, it would be “hit hard” by new American sanctions.