Russia on Saturday castigated the Ukrainian reaction to the explosion which damaged the Crimean bridge, a key and symbolic infrastructure of this peninsula annexed by Moscow.
“kyiv Regime’s Reaction to Civilian Infrastructure Damage Shows Its Terrorist Nature“Said the spokeswoman for Russian diplomacy, Maria Zakharova, quoted by Russian news agencies. Ukrainian officials on Saturday multiplied mocking and ironic comments about the explosion, without claiming responsibility.
Among other sardonic jokes and sarcastic comments, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense compared this attack to the one that sank the cruiser Moskva in the Black Sea in April, another “symbol of Russian power in Ukrainian Crimea“. “What else awaits you, russkofs?“, he wrote insultingly on Twitter.
The Kyiv security services (SBU) for their part published on Telegram hijacked verses by the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko on “the sun rising over the burning bridge“. “Today is a perfect opportunity to revise some poems by Taras Shevchenko“, quipped the SBU.
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The Ukrainian Post has announced that it is preparing to print stamps bearing the image of the “Crimean bridge, or, more exactly, what’s left of it“. His boss Igor Smelyansky posted the design of these new stamps on Facebook, showing an explosion on the Crimean Bridge and another ironically depicting an iconic scene from the movie Titanic.
However, no Ukrainian official has claimed direct responsibility for the attack on the bridge, which comes as Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was close to the project, celebrated his 70th birthday on Friday. Ukraine had already multiplied the jokes and ironic comments during explosions that damaged Russian bases in Crimea last summer. She did not admit to being the cause of these explosions until several months later.