London, SANA- The secret British intelligence plot to blow up Crimea\u2019s Kerch Bridge is revealed in internal documents and correspondence obtained exclusively by The Grayzone.<\/p>\n
The Grayzone has obtained an April 2022 presentation drawn up for senior British intelligence officers hashing out an elaborate scheme to blow up Crimea\u2019s Kerch Bridge with the involvement of specially trained Ukrainian soldiers.<\/p>\n
Almost six months after the plan was circulated, Kerch Bridge was attacked in an October 8th suicide bombing apparently overseen by Ukraine\u2019s SBU intelligence services.<\/p>\n
Detailed proposals for providing \u201caudacious\u201d support to Kiev\u2019s \u201cmaritime raiding operations\u201d were drafted at the request of\u00a0Chris Donnelly, a senior British Army intelligence operative and veteran high ranking NATO advisor. The wide-ranging plan\u2019s core component was \u201cdestruction of the bridge over the Kerch Strait.\u201d<\/p>\n
Documents and correspondence plotting the operation were provided to The Grayzone by an anonymous source.<\/p>\n
Ward suggests that destroying the bridge \u201cwould require a cruise missile battery to hit the two concrete pillars either side of the central steel arch, which will cause a complete structural failure,\u201d and \u201cprevent any road re-supply from the Russian mainland to Crimea and temporally disrupt the shipping lane.\u201d<\/p>\n
Source: The Grayzone<\/p>\n
Manar Salameh\/Hala Zain<\/p>\n
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