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Oct 13 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
1/ The Russian media reports that 12 suspects in the 8 October attack on the Kerch Bridge to Crimea have been identified and 8 arrested. They all appear to be linked to a truck cargo that the Russians say caused the explosion (see below).
2/ Those accused of involvement include:

🔴 Samvel Azatyan, his sons Georgy and Artyom, as well as worker Yuri Postnikov. Samvel and Azatyan are co-owners of Agro-Business, a company in Armavir, Krasdonar region. Artyom is a lawyer in Simferopol, Crimea.
3/ The truck cargo was delivered to their warehouse by an Armenian trucker and taken to the bridge by a Russian trucker. According to the Russian authorities, Artyom called his father to ask him to accept the cargo for a day on behalf of a friend.
4/ 🔴 Artur Terjanyan. The Armenian trucker who transported the cargo from Poti, Georgia to Armavir via Yerevan, Armenia. He was arrested while queuing at a Russian border post on his way back from delivering the cargo to Armavir.
5/ 🔴 Denis Olegovich Kovac, Mikhail Vladimirovich Tsyurkalo, and Roman Ivanovich Solomko. Ukrainian citizens who are said to have been involved in organising the transportation of the cargo from Bulgaria to Georgia.
6/ 🔴 Georgian citizens Inosaridze Sandro and a broker named Levan, who were also claimed to be involved with the transportation through Georgia. The Georgian government has denied its citizens were involved.
7/ 🔴 Vladimir Vasilyevich Zlob and "five more established citizens of Russia", who were allegedly involved with changing the paperwork of the cargo to send it on to a non-existent company in Crimea.
8/ 🔴 "Ivan Ivanovich", a Ukrainian citizen, is accused by the Russians of coordinating the whole attack. The Russians say he used a number registered to Sergey Vladimirovich Andreichenko, another Ukrainian citizen.
9/ The FSB says it's detained five Russian citizens and three citizens of Ukraine and Armenia, but hasn't named them.

Sources:
🔹 vesti.ru/article/2988004
🔹 vlasti.info/news/50580-v_f…
🔹 vlasti.info/news/50618-pro…
🔹 bbc.com/russian/news-6…
🔹 eurointegration.com.ua/rus/news/2022/…

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1/ Armenia's State Revenue Committee (=customs service) has published an annotated video compilation showing the passage through Armenia of the cargo that reportedly exploded on the Kerch Bridge to Crimea on 8 October. Translation follows. ⬇️
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3/ The cargo was transported through Georgia, Armenia and southern Russia in a DAF truck driven by an Armenian citizen, Artur Terjanyan. It was transferred to a different truck in Russia and subsequently exploded on the bridge.

The newly published video shows:
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