{"id":39579,"date":"2025-11-27T11:51:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T11:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/2022-crimean-bridge-bombing-russian-court-sentences-suspects-to-life-imprisonment\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T11:51:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T11:51:23","slug":"2022-crimean-bridge-bombing-russian-court-sentences-suspects-to-life-imprisonment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/2022-crimean-bridge-bombing-russian-court-sentences-suspects-to-life-imprisonment\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 Crimean Bridge bombing: Russian court sentences suspects to life imprisonment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The accused pleaded not guilty, despite Russian accusations of cooperating with Ukrainian special services.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.unn.ua%2Fimg%2F2025%2F11%2F27%2F1764243379-1751-large.webp&amp;w=720&amp;q=75\" alt=\"2022 Crimean Bridge bombing: Russian court sentences suspects to life imprisonment\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Southern District Military Court of Russia&#039;s Rostov-on-Don found eight people guilty of blowing up the Crimean Bridge in 2022. This was reported by UNN with reference to Russian &quot;media&quot;.<\/p>\n<h2>Details<\/h2>\n<p>Artem Azatyan, Georgy Azatyan, Oleg Antipov, Oleksandr Bylin, Volodymyr Zlob, Dmytro Tyazhelykh, Roman Solomko, and Artur Terchanyan were found guilty by the Russian court.<\/p>\n<p>All of them were charged with articles on terrorism (paragraph &quot;b&quot; of part 3 of article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and transportation of explosives (part 4 of article 222.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), and two defendants were also charged with smuggling explosives (part 3 of article 226.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).<\/p>\n<p>All eight individuals received life imprisonment. They were also accused of cooperating with Ukrainian special services. The defendants themselves did not admit their guilt.<\/p>\n<h2>Context<\/h2>\n<p>The explosion on the Crimean Bridge occurred on October 8, 2022: five people died then, and traffic on the bridge was stopped.<\/p>\n<p>In response, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine of organizing a &quot;terrorist attack&quot; and ordered massive missile strikes, which happened on October 10 of the same year. Explosions occurred in Kyiv, Lviv, Dnipro, Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zhytomyr, Kharkiv, Khmelnytskyi, Kremenchuk, and other cities of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the strikes, more than 20 people died and more than 100 were injured.<\/p>\n<p>Russia stamps out fake lawsuits against Ukraine in temporarily occupied Crimea &#8211; CNS27.11.25, 04:18 \u2022 22603 views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The accused pleaded not guilty, despite Russian accusations of cooperating with Ukrainian special services. The Southern District Military Court of Russia&#039;s Rostov-on-Don found eight people guilty of blowing up the Crimean Bridge in 2022. This was reported by UNN with reference to Russian &quot;media&quot;. Details Artem Azatyan, Georgy Azatyan, Oleg Antipov, Oleksandr Bylin, Volodymyr Zlob, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}