The head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Rafat Chubarov expressed the opinion that the " He wrote about it on his Facebook.

“I do not exclude that the “attack” was staged by the Russian occupiers themselves in order to justify the cancellation of events dedicated to the day of the Russian Navy, the “festivity” of which would be doubtful after the destruction of the largest flagship warship of the fleet in April 2022 by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. And also for the further escalation of Russia's military operations against Ukraine,"

He also did not rule out that the Russian authorities could organize a series of explosions in Russian cities in order to blame the Ukrainian military for this..

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Recall, on the eve of the so-called "