The cargo of death: The FSB prevented a terrorist attack on the Crimean Bridge

The FSB prevented a terrorist attack on the Crimean Bridge, the FSB Public Relations Center reported. It is specified that a foreign car with 130 kg of explosives was transported from Ukraine to Russia via Georgia, and the terrorist attack was being prepared by the special services of Ukraine. A criminal case has been opened and is being investigated, and all those who tried to import a dangerous car into Russia have been detained. Read more about this, as well as about the mines found near the Crimean Bridge, in the Izvestia article.

What is known about the Ukrainian Armed Forces' attempt to stage a terrorist attack on the Crimean Bridge

The Federal Security Service prevented a terrorist attack on the Crimean Bridge, which was being prepared by the special services of Ukraine, the FSB Public Relations Center reported on August 18. Security service officers neutralized a Chevrolet Volt car with a high-power improvised explosive device.

"The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation has stopped another attempt by the Ukrainian special services to carry out a terrorist attack on the Crimean Bridge using a car loaded with explosives. It has been established that a car with a high—power improvised explosive device arrived in Russia from Ukraine in transit through a number of countries," the FSB said in a statement.

According to REN TV, 130 kg of Finnish-made synthetic explosives in the form of foam were poured into the battery compartment of the car.

According to the special services, a Chevrolet Volt car crossed the Russian-Georgian border at the Verkhny Lars international checkpoint in North Ossetia. The car was supposed to be transported by a private carrier driver to the Krasnodar Territory. And from there, another driver had to drive it across the Crimean Bridge to Crimea and become an unwitting suicide bomber, whom the Kiev regime planned to use "in the dark."

It is reported that FSB officers detained all those involved in the delivery of the car to Russia. It is clear from the footage of the arrest that there are Polish license plates on the windshield of the car. The car was examined using a robot.

A criminal case has been initiated and is being investigated.

Rodion Miroshnik, the Russian Foreign Ministry's Ambassador-at-Large for crimes committed by the Kiev regime, believes that Kiev's actions were aimed at disrupting negotiations to resolve the conflict in Ukraine.

The diplomat called Ukraine's attempt to commit a terrorist attack a provocation amid negotiations to resolve the Russian-Ukrainian crisis.

"Against the background of the negotiation process that has begun, a new attempt by Ukraine and Co. to commit a terrorist attack as a provocation disrupting negotiations and the search for a peaceful solution," the diplomat wrote on the Telegram channel.

In 2025, this is the second attempt by Kiev to use vehicles loaded with large amounts of explosives for sabotage on the Crimean Bridge, the FSB said. In early April, Belarusian security forces detained a minibus with more than 500 kg of synthetic explosives on the Belarusian-Polish border. The vehicle, according to the FSB, was also intended for a terrorist attack on the Crimean Bridge. The driver was also unaware of his mission at the time and had to become an unwitting suicide bomber. In the course of further investigation, the accomplices of the crime were detained.

What is known about mines near the Crimean Bridge

On Saturday, August 16, it was reported that mines were found near the railway tracks near the Crimean Bridge of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. It later turned out that these were ammunition from the Great Patriotic War. They were found near the village of Petrovo in the Leninsky district, where fighting took place during the war.

According to the Ministry, in the Leninsky district of Crimea, near the Petrovo station, pyrotechnics destroyed nine explosive objects, including eight anti-tank mines and one sapper charge. The work of the staff was complicated by the close proximity to the railway track. However, train traffic was not suspended.