Russia: Vladimir Putin meets his security council this Monday

Two days after the explosion that damaged the Crimean bridge, the Russian president will hold a security council this Monday, October 10.

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LRussian President Vladimir Putin will convene his Security Council on Monday, a format bringing together key ministers, politicians and representatives of the security services and the army, the Kremlin announced to Russian agencies on Sunday. “A meeting of the president with the permanent members of the security council is scheduled for tomorrow,” said Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov. If the Russian president holds such meetings regularly, this will take place two days after the explosion that damaged the Crimean bridge, a key infrastructure.

Deadly Russian shelling hit the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhia overnight Saturday-Sunday, killing many civilians the day after the partial destruction by an explosion of the Crimean Bridge built by Russia after the annexation of the peninsula. The explosion that hit and partially destroyed the bridge connecting the annexed peninsula to Russia, which kyiv had previously pointed out as illegitimacy, is another major setback for Russia, at a time when its forces are struggling in Ukraine.