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What Moscow said after the Crimean Bridge blast
Summary
A look back at the political moves in Russia in the days before 10 October 2022, from the annexation votes to the accusation over the Crimean Bridge.
What had Moscow set in motion by 10 October 2022? The preceding days had brought a run of formal political steps in Russia, ending with an accusation against Kyiv.
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 followed on 5 October 2022. Putin signed a law formally annexing the Donetsk People's Republic, the Luhansk People's Republic, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia into Russia.
The next development came on 9 October 2022, after an explosion on the Crimean Bridge that killed three people and partially destroyed part of the structure. Putin formally accused Ukraine, and specifically the Security Service of Ukraine, of being behind the blast. He called it an act of terrorism.
A sequence of announcements
Taken together, the reports from 4 to 9 October 2022 show a rapid sequence: parliamentary approval of the annexation, the president's signature a day later, and then a public attribution of blame for the bridge explosion to Ukraine's security service. Those were the political positions on record going into 10 October 2022.
