After the explosion on the Crimean bridge, Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the FSB to organize and coordinate measures to protect the structure, as well as the gas pipeline connected to it and the electric grid bridge. But, as it became known, earlier two federal state unitary enterprises were engaged in the protection of the bridge - " It is reported by BBC Russia.

According to journalists’ calculations, in 2022 federal structures signed state contracts to ensure the safety of the bridge in the amount of more than 2 billion rubles.. Federal State Unitary Enterprise Department of Departmental Security of the Ministry of Transport of Russia until the end of July 2022. received about 53 million rubles a month under state contracts for the protection of the bridge. In August, services rose to 66.85 million rubles. In total, the protection of the automobile part of the bridge in 2022 should have cost the Russian budget about 700 million rubles..

Interestingly, in April 2022, the same enterprise received an additional state contract for 617.9 million rubles to retrofit the bridge with “technical means of ensuring transport security”. The contractor has already received almost a third of the amount (197 million rubles), but so far has developed only working documentation for this project for only 17 million rubles.

As for the railway part of the bridge, the Southern branch of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Departmental Guard of the Railway Transport of the Russian Federation” is responsible for its protection.. The state contract for its services in 2022 will cost the Russian government 937 million? rubles. On February 27, the company also received an additional 70 million rubles for the maintenance of security systems for the railway component of the bridge. Interestingly, the contract for the protection of the railway bridge explicitly states that both the underbridge space and the approaches to the bridge should be protected..

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Earlier, CNN journalists analyzed the consequences of the destruction of the Crimean bridge and came to the conclusion that they put Vladimir Putin in an extremely difficult position, which could eventually cost him power..

Even if this is not the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but the providence of God, the Kremlin should take the fire and the collapse of the spans of the fastened Kerch bridge as a sign that a turning point has finally occurred in the war against Ukraine and will continue to be even more painful. And a sign from Ukrainians to the whole world that nothing is impossible when you fight for your land and liberate your people — Valentina Samar and Nikita Panasenko write in the article “War and Crimea”.