Пресс-секретарь президента Дмитрий Песков назвал безумием предложение журналиста американского издания Washington Examiner взорвать Крымский мост. "Я бы даже сказал, наверное, это просто такое уродливое проявление некачественной журналистики", — цитирует Пескова РИА Новости.
Материал опубликован 15 мая, в день, когда Путин открыл мост, проехав по нему во главе колонны из 20 грузовиков. Вот, что написал американец на родном языке: "Russian President Vladimir Putin opened the Kerch Strait Bridge connecting Crimea, Ukraine, with mainland Russia on Tuesday. Putin did so by in a typical show of bravado by leading a column of transport vehicles across the bridge.
Ukraine should now destroy elements of the bridge.
While that course of action would be an escalation against Putin and one that would almost certainly spark Russian retaliation, this bridge is an outrageous affront to Ukraine's very credibility as a nation. Of course, from Putin's perspective that's the whole point. The bridge cost Russia's near-bankrupt government billions of dollars, but it offers Putin a formal physical and psychological appropriation of Ukrainian territory.
Fortunately Ukraine has the means to launch air strikes against the bridge in a manner that would render it at least temporarily unusable. Because of its significant length, the Ukrainian air force could strike the bridge while mitigating the risk of casualties by those traversing it".