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On the fact of the preparation for the vehicular bridge explosive destruct in the territory of the Lugansk People’s Republic, a criminal case is opened.

The Military Investigative Unit of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation launched a criminal charge against the soldiers MoD А3814 of the Ukranian Armed Forces  - the Commanding Officer of the diving troop Roman Verkhoglad and the head driver, the Private First Class – Ruslan Maisturk, into the offence under Part. 1, Art. 30 and paragraphs «a», «f», «g», «l» Part. 2, Art. 105 the Criminal Code of the RF (preparation to commit a murder of two or more persons by group of persons, in commonly-dangerous way, based upon hatred and animosity).

It has been preliminarily established that the Ukrainian military command decided to blow up a vehicular bridge over the Derkul river located in Gorodische town of Belovodskiy rayon in LPR.  Realizing the conceived, on the checkpoint, located at the exiting of the road Т-1314 to the community town called Nozdrevka, 10 cumulative charges of KZ-4 were delivered, each of which contained about 50 kg of explosive and was designed to destroy armor and reinforced concrete structures. The fulfillment of this task was entrusted to Verkhoglad and Mastruk.

Having received the information about the convoy of the Russian military vehicles approach, they decided to dispose it by blasting the appointed bridge, proceeded to undermining it. Meanwhile, the Russian military command took the proactive actions, in this connection, the Ukrainian soldiers could not make a conceived. Along the clash Verkhoglad died, and Maistruk capitulated.

To date, all detected cumulative charges are neutralized. During the inspection of the checkpoint, the documentation that testifies the preparation for the explosive destruct of the vehicular bridge, is seized, as well as the literature of the extremist content.

The preliminary investigation continues.