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What Moscow said after the Crimean Bridge blast
Summary
A look back at the political backdrop on 10 October 2022, after Russia's annexation steps and its accusation over the Crimean Bridge explosion.
What was the political picture on 10 October 2022? It was shaped by two developments in the days before: Russia's formal annexation moves and a public accusation over an explosion on the Crimean Bridge.
On 4 October 2022, the Federation Council of Russia unanimously approved the annexation of Ukraine's Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions. The annexation documents were then to receive final signing by Russian president Vladimir Putin.
That signing came on 5 October 2022, when Putin signed a law formally annexing the Donetsk People's Republic, the Luhansk People's Republic, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia into Russia.
On 9 October 2022, Putin formally accused Ukraine, and specifically the Security Service of Ukraine, of being behind the explosion on the Crimean Bridge. The blast killed three people and partially destroyed part of the bridge. Putin described it as an act of terrorism.
Taken together, the reports from those days show a sequence in which Russia first completed the legal steps of annexation and then put a direct charge against Ukrainian security services at the centre of its public line on the bridge. By 10 October 2022, that accusation was the latest formal position from the Russian president on the explosion.
