Officials: Georgia has nothing to do with truck explosion on Crimea bridge
Officials: Georgia has nothing to do with truck explosion on Crimea bridge

Georgian Deputy Interior Minister, Aleksandre Darakhvelidze, on Wednesday, remarked on the Russian media reports that the truck linked to the blast that damaged Russia’s bridge to annexed Crimea had travelled via Georgia.

“Transit and non-transit cargoes pass customs control in Georgia, and no suspicious facts have been detected,” Aleksandre Darakhvelidze, told media outlets in Gori.

Darakhvelidze claims, “Georgia has nothing to do with the said issue.”

Furthermore, the Deputy Minister of Finance, Giorgi Kakauridze, reassured Georgian media that not a single cargo loaded with TNT, nor a truck or wagon loaded with other explosive substances crossed the customs border of Georgia.

Alexander Bastrykin, the head of Russia’s Investigative Committee, earlier said that the vehicle had passed through Bulgaria, Georgia, Armenia, South Ossetia and Russia’s Krasnodar region before arriving on the bridge.

Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine of attacking the bridge to Russian-annexed Crimea, calling it an “act of terrorism”.