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[NYPOST] A 25-year-old Russian man owns the truck that Russian authorities say blew up its crucial Kerch Strait bridge to Crimea — but he was not in the driver’s seat.
Not if he's still talking.
Russian law enforcement named Samir Yusubov, a resident of the Russian city of Krasnodar — about an hour’s drive from the span that supplies Vladimir Putin’s troops in southern Ukraine — as the registered owner of the red International Prostar truck that was enveloped in a massive fireball early Saturday morning.
"Yeah, but I wasn't driving it!"
"Can you prove it wass nut you, comrade?"
In a video filmed for Baza Media and posted to social media, the seemingly stunned young man said that an older relative, Makhir Yusubov, 52, was using the vehicle.
"Da, da. He wass driver, not me."
“I’ve got nothing to do with what happened on the Crimean bridge,” he said in the 28-second clip.
"Youse got nuttin' on me, comrade coppers! Nuttin!"
“It was my uncle working with it, my father’s cousin, Makhir Yusubov. He has been into cargo transportation all life long.”
"Up until yesterday, anyway."
His uncle usually arranged his work orders through a website, Samir Yusubov said — and has not been heard from since the blast ripped through the roadway, collapsing part of the span.
"And chto wass he transportink, comrade?"
"Ummm... Explosives?"
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Massive fireball that destroyed part of Russia-Crimea bridge seen in wild video
[NYPOST] A stunning series of photos and videos shows the
A monstrous fireball bloomed over all four of the bridge’s vehicle lanes at 6:07 a.m. as a passenger car and a freight truck drove side by side up the incline to its towering arch.
The flames appeared to reach across the water, enveloping the twin railroad bridge about 100 feet away.
A moment later, flaming shrapnel and sparks could be seen raining down onto the roadway and into the water below.
The mysteriously powerful blast killed three people on the 12-mile bridge and caused a partial roadway collapse.
Russian authorities said a truck bomb caused the extensive damage — but Western demolitions experts cast doubt on the claim, speculating instead that a missile or water-borne explosives had been used against the span.
"You can’t get that much stuff in a vehicle going over a bridge," security analyst Michael Clarke told Sky News. "Bridges are designed to withstand accidents of that sort."
The massive blast targeted a major military supply route to Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...’s forces in southern Ukraine, just one day day after the Russian president’s 70th birthday.
