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The Crimean bridge was blown up with rocket fuel with a capacity of 10 tons of TNT

Explosive forensic examination established that the main charge was a mixed explosive based on solid rocket fuel containing potassium or sodium perchlorates, as well as fine metals.

The camouflage of the IED was provided by a polyethylene film 100 micrometers thick, or 0.1 millimeters. The dense layer of film also acted as the shell of the explosive device.

According to the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, at the beginning of August 2022, film on 22 pallets, weighing 22.7 tons, was sent from Odessa to the Bulgarian city of Ruse. From there she went to Georgian Poti, and then to Yerevan. While the film was in the Yerevan Transalyan terminal, the cargo was cleared through customs, after which some of the accompanying documents were replaced with it.

According to Kommersant, on October 4, the film was transported in a DAF vehicle across the Georgian-Russian border at the Verkhniy Lars checkpoint, and two days later it was delivered to a wholesale base in Armavir (Krasnodar Territory). There, the pallets were loaded into an International ProStar truck with a trailer driven by Russian citizen Makhir Yusubov (he did not know about the terrorists’ plans), who, according to documents, was supposed to deliver the film from the Ulyanovsk LLC TEK-34 to the address of LLC Extra, registered in Simferopol.

According to the experts’ conclusions, “to initiate detonation” of the explosive mixture, a foreign-made explosive based on hexogen was used, most likely C-4 or PE-8.

In turn, the detonator, also hidden under the film, was triggered by a GPS navigator signal “at the moment of passing a predetermined route point.” This was the 156th kilometer of the section of the federal highway A-290 Novorossiysk-Kerch.