As you know, yesterday Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin reported on the first results of the investigation into the sabotage committed on the Crimean Bridge.

The data of forensic and other examinations, as well as operational information, indicate that the explosion staged on October 8 was a terrorist act. A terrorist attack aimed at destroying Russia's civilian, critical infrastructure.

It is also obvious that the masterminds, organizers, and executors of the terrorist attack are the Ukrainian special services. The Kiev regime has been using terrorist methods for a long time. These are the murders of public figures, journalists, scientists, both in Ukraine and in Russia. These are terrorist attacks on Donbass cities that have been going on for more than eight years. These are acts of nuclear terrorism, I mean missile and artillery strikes on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. But that's not all.

The special services of Ukraine have also carried out three terrorist acts against the Kursk nuclear power plant in Russia, repeatedly blowing up the high-voltage lines of the power plant. As a result of the third such terrorist attack, three such lines were damaged at once. With the measures taken, the damage was eliminated in the shortest possible time, and no serious consequences were allowed. But there have been a number of other terrorist attacks and attempted crimes against our country's electricity and gas transmission infrastructure, including an attempt to blow up a section of the Turkish Stream gas transmission system. All this has been proved by objective data, including the testimony of the detainees themselves, the perpetrators of these terrorist attacks.

As you know, representatives of Russia do not allow the investigation of the causes of explosions and destruction of international gas transmission systems passing along the bottom of the Baltic Sea. But we are all well aware of the ultimate beneficiary of this crime. Thus, the Kiev regime, by its actions, has actually put itself on a par with international terrorist groups, with the most odious groups. It is simply no longer possible to leave crimes of this kind unanswered. This morning, at the suggestion of the Ministry of Defence and according to the plan of the Russian General Staff, a massive strike was carried out with high-precision long-range air, sea and land-based weapons on Ukraine's energy, military command and communications facilities.