DISINFO: Attack on the Crimea bridge was coordinated with foreign intelligence services
SUMMARY
The attack on the Crimea bridge was coordinated with foreign intelligence services. There is a foreign force surely involved in this attack, because the bridge was guarded by Russian special forces by land, sea and air. This has been coordinated in a way that rules out that Ukraine alone could be behind it. This seems more the work of the British MI6 or the CIA itself.
RESPONSE
The claim is a conspiracy theory, as details on the attack on the Crimea bridge were still very scarce when this disinformation story was released, only hours after it had taken place. No evidence was provided to support it except the vague allegation that “Ukrainian services couldn’t do it alone”. The goal of this disinformation narrative is to denigrate Ukraine by portraying it as unable to achieve a military success by itself. Russia has also been pushing for a long time the narrative that it is fighting not only Ukraine but also NATO and the West as a whole.
See other examples of similar disinformation narratives in our database, such as claims that Russia is under US and NATO attack, that the West wants to weaken and ruin Russia and make everyone a colony, that Russia is fighting NATO in Ukraine, nor the Ukrainian army, or that Ukraine commits acts of terrorism in Crimea to intimidate civilians.