How to ensure the safety of the Crimean bridge. Under the supervision of the military: how the Russian authorities guard the Crimean bridge Will the Kerch bridge be guarded

The Russian authorities will enclose the land sections of the future Kerch bridge with a fence. They also intend to equip this territory with a powerful security system. According to the project, on the Kerch, Taman banks and on the island of Tuzla, checkpoints will appear at the entrances to the bridge to inspect vehicles and citizens. All these attributes are listed in the documents of several public procurements, copies of which are available to Krym.Realii. What will be the security system of the future bridge, read in our material.

On November 3, the Federal Unitary Enterprise Department of Departmental Security of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation purchased design and survey services as part of equipping with engineering and technical systems to ensure transport safety of the transport crossing through the Kerch Strait. The total cost of the purchase amounted to 12.4 million rubles.

According to the documentation available Crimea. Realities, entrances to the future bridge are planned to be equipped with eight checkpoints: three checkpoints will appear on the territory of Taman and Kerch, two on the island of Tuzla. Also, on the Kerch and Taman banks, there will be two buildings for screening individuals.

8 checkpoints at 19 kilometers

According to the documents, as part of ensuring security on the future Crimean bridge in Kerch, it is planned to build two railway and one road checkpoint (30.5 square meters each). Two more buildings will be built here for the inspection of individuals - 15 and 30 square meters each.

In addition, the land sections of the future bridge will be accompanied by large-scale cut-off fences.

Also, one road and one railway checkpoint will be installed on the Tuzla Spit, through which the bridge will run. Here, the road and railway passages will also be surrounded by a fence.

A similar situation will be in Taman, where three checkpoints will be placed, two of which are railway ones. Another special complex will inspect individuals.

Thus, eight checkpoints in three sections will be equipped on 19 kilometers of the bridge.

The execution of the contract is planned from December this year to January 31, 2018. The Federal Agency for Fisheries will be involved in the process, which will assess the damage to aquatic biological resources due to the installation of security systems.

Toxicological analysis of soils and bottom sediments in the Kerch Strait, according to the documents, will be carried out by the Center for Hygiene and Epidemiology in St. Petersburg.

4.5 billion for system installation

In February, August and October of this year, the Department of Departmental Security of the Ministry of Transport of Russia and the Department of Federal Highways "Taman" signed three more contracts for engineering surveys and design of security systems for transport crossings across the Kerch Strait. They cost more than 4.5 billion rubles.

According to the terms of the contract, payment for the work is divided into three years. This year it will cost 1.5 billion rubles, in 2018 - 2 billion, and in 2019 - another 1 billion rubles.

Rescue and fire posts in Taman

As part of the procurement by the Department of Departmental Security of the Ministry of Transport of Russia in the village of Taman, Krasnodar Territory, a specialized fire and rescue unit will also be built to protect against emergencies and large natural fires in the bridge area, as well as a separate post with a control center for an integrated security system.

For these objects, a land plot of 12.5 thousand square meters has been allocated on the border with the settlements of Taman. Here they want to build a building of a separate post of the fire and rescue unit with a control center for an integrated security system.

“The facility will be designed to carry out priority search and rescue, emergency rescue operations and ensure fire safety of special facilities. It will include a complete transformer substation, two artesian wells, three garages for parking reserve cars and other vehicles, and two boats. An underground tank with a volume of 50 cubic meters and a fire hydrant are provided, ”the procurement documentation lists.

Design and survey work on this project cost 4.8 million rubles. Construction will be carried out as part of the defense order with funding in 2018 and 2019.

The work is expected to be completed in 2019. The chief specialist of the investment and capital construction department of the Main Directorate of the EMERCOM of Russia for the Krasnodar Territory is responsible for the contract Denis Mamaev.

Krasnodar OOO Proekt-Stroy-Design, which is owned by two individuals and is engaged in engineering surveys, design and construction control, became the winner of the competition for the implementation of these works.

According to the documents, the work on the installation of safety equipment on the road approaches to the bridge should be completed by April 30, 2018, and on the railway - by December 1, 2019. That is, several months later than the commissioning of the bridge itself. Russian officials call this date the summer of 2019.

To solve special problems, various departments, later merged into the National Guard, have long had extremely qualified specialists. All employees have not only theoretical knowledge about many areas of their work, but also with varying intensity, but they always participate in special operations. The fighters of the special forces detachments that are part of the Russian Guard admit that geography and specificity do not matter in this regard. Personnel decides everything

“The work is going on in various directions. From detentions of members of an organized crime group to targeted work (meaning trips to counter-terrorist operations), or work in transport. Specialists are available for any profile - from inspection and negotiations to the disposal of explosive devices, ”special forces officers say.
However, the bridge across the Kerch Strait, which is scheduled to be fully commissioned in 2019, will require from the employees of the Russian Guard not only an integrated approach to ensuring security, including the use of special methods, tactics and special equipment. From tradition to excellence
The protection of strategic facilities is only at first glance a simple task - large infrastructure facilities, such as nuclear and hydroelectric power plants, as well as transport hubs, have special specifics, and differ from each other not only and not so much in the principles of ensuring security, but in approaches to the implementation of this process.
In this case, it is impossible to limit yourself to a simple organization of access control and its observance - even at energy facilities, strict supervision of the entrance / exit at the facility is not the only measures taken for protection.

For example, each shift of nuclear power plants, state district power plants and other facilities includes armed and well-trained guards, ready to fight back at the slightest hint of an attack attempt. In such cases, special attention is paid to training and education of personnel, because not only the lives of working personnel, but also hundreds of thousands of ordinary people depend on the coherence of actions and their effectiveness.
The protection of strategic objects is the sphere of competence of specialists unique in their kind. Historians and veterans of the special services note that in the Soviet Union, employees of some special forces, as part of the exercises, were often tasked with organizing the protection of an object, or, on the contrary, capturing it.
“Vympel fighters were once involved in exercises at the Beloyarsk nuclear power plant. During the experiment with the security system at the facility, special forces officers were instructed to infiltrate the facility and carry out its conditional destruction. Without going into details, after the local KGB department was informed, the specialists described in detail the zones and sectors through which it was possible to secretly penetrate the object ... and then carried out the penetration. The whole thing took 42 seconds. After that, the security system at all nuclear power plants without exception was changed and strengthened. And strict checks with special events at such facilities are still being carried out, ”said military historian Andrei Golovin in an interview with the Zvezda TV channel. Particularly important object
Despite the fact that ensuring the security of large facilities is not new to the employees of the National Guard, guarding the bridge across the Kerch Strait will require the use of all professionalism, training and an arsenal of special equipment.
The statement by the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Guard Viktor Zolotov on the creation of a special naval brigade to protect the bridge across the Kerch Strait in this sense was a landmark event that allows us to assess the scale of the work ahead.

The first and main innovation noted by most security experts is the likely inclusion of a detachment of combat swimmers in the marine brigade, whose tasks, in addition to searching for unexploded ordnance from the Great Patriotic War, will also include special operations at depths.
“Any object of such a plan requires comprehensive protection. In order to exclude any provocations that in one way or another may affect the safety of the structure, combat swimmers will be involved in patrolling the water area, diving and inspecting suspicious objects and will actively work with unique hydroacoustic stations,” experts say.
According to experts, in order to neutralize intruders under water, combat swimmers of the Russian Guard can receive appropriate weapons - underwater ADS submachine guns, PSS pistols and special watercraft for fast movement under water, similar to those that will be included in the armament of PDSS fighters of the Navy.
Experts also note that in order to suppress and quickly intercept violators at sea, the Russian Guard in the near future may order the construction of four anti-sabotage boats of Project 21980 Grachonok.
Vaccination against provocations
Political scientists and experts are sure that the commissioning of such an object as a bridge across the Kerch Strait will inevitably increase the risk of provocations from the Ukrainian special services.
According to the military political scientist, Associate Professor of the Department of Political Science and Sociology of the Russian University of Economics named after G.V. Plekhanova Alexandra Perendzhieva, the formed Naval Brigade of the Russian Guard is a necessary and balanced step to ensure the security of the crossing and the region as a whole. both official bodies of Ukraine (Ukrainian Armed Forces, SBU, etc.), and semi-state and non-state structures - volunteer battalions, radical organizations of a nationalist-fascist persuasion, etc. It must be taken into account that terrorist saboteurs undergo very serious special training, which is led by representatives of the special services of the United States and other NATO countries. Therefore, the counteraction should be “special”, that is, highly professional,” Perendzhiev noted. According to experts, the Russian special services began to calculate most of the scenarios with probable provocations from the very beginning of the construction of the facility.
“The security system of the bridge is provided by the activities of not some separate power structure, but by all the special services of Russia,” said military political scientist Alexander Perendzhiev. Experts note that the presence of special services and the protection of the Kerch bridge under water, at sea, and in the air will discourage the desire to check on the strength of the security service and the military.

A marine brigade will be created to protect the transport crossing through the Kerch Strait. This was stated by the director of the National Guard Viktor Zolotov. According to him, the federal service has accumulated extensive experience in the field of security. Under the protection of the department there are 74 strategic objects. The issue of protecting the Crimean bridge has become particularly relevant in connection with the detentions of Ukrainian saboteurs in the region. The crossing will have to be protected primarily from encroachments from Kyiv, experts say.

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A new formation will appear in the structure of the Russian Guard, whose duties will include the protection of the Crimean bridge. According to existing plans, in 2019 the transport crossing will connect the peninsula and mainland Russia with a bus road and a railway track.

“In order to solve the tasks assigned to the Russian Guard to ensure the safety of the transport passage through the Kerch Strait, a new formation will have to be formed - a naval brigade,” said Director of the Russian Guard Viktor Zolotov, speaking at a meeting in the Federation Council.

According to him, the employees of the department have accumulated quite a lot of experience in the field of ensuring the security of objects of strategic importance. According to Zolotov, 74 important state facilities are under the protection of the Russian Guard.

As part of the implementation of the Crimean Bridge project, more than half of the construction work has already been completed. Igor Astakhov, deputy head of the Federal Road Agency of the Russian Federation, announced this on Wednesday. In the summer, the builders carried out two key operations: they installed the road and railway arches of the bridge.

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The first piles in the bottom of the Kerch Strait began to be driven in the spring of 2016. The general contractor Stroygazmontazh expects that the highway through the Kerch Strait will open on December 18, 2018, and the railway on December 1, 2019. The bridge will stretch for 19 km and will be the longest in Russia.

Scuba Diving Squad

In mid-September 2016, the Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Maxim Sokolov announced that there was a section in the design documentation of the bridge dedicated to anti-terrorist security.

Shortly before this, information appeared in the media that the National Guard was planning to create a detachment of combat scuba divers, whose tasks would include repelling saboteur attacks and searching for explosives. In addition, combat divers must neutralize ammunition from the times of the Great Patriotic War and drive away diving enthusiasts from the piles of the bridge.

• Training of combat swimmers of the special forces of the Russian Guard

Scuba divers of the Russian Guard will be provided with special small arms (in particular, the ADS small arms and grenade launcher system), high-speed anti-sabotage boats and surveillance equipment capable of monitoring the sea depths.

On the boats of the Russian Guard (presumably project 21980 "Rook"), special reconnaissance vehicles will be installed that will allow them to detect enemy manpower and underwater targets.

On March 30, 2017, Deputy Prime Minister of Crimea Georgy Muradov stated that the security of the Crimean bridge would be controlled by "all forces, including the military component" and special services.

• National Guard of the Russian Federation

Viktor Murakhovsky, editor-in-chief of Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine, believes that the Crimean bridge will be mainly protected from saboteurs. The establishment of a naval brigade means that the Russian Guard will focus on protecting the water area, including monitoring the underwater situation.

“In addition to boats, autonomous underwater vehicles, high-resolution sonar systems and stationary surveillance equipment will be involved that will monitor the situation around the bridge day and night,” Murakhovsky said in an interview with RT.

As Murakhovsky clarified, the Crimean bridge is a strategic object of the first category, which implies the adoption of special measures to protect against "active external influence."

The expert believes that the state will also provide air defense of the transport crossing. According to Murakhovsky, the Buk and Tor anti-aircraft systems, as well as several radar stations, will cope with this task.

Protection from Ukraine

Meanwhile, ensuring the security of the Crimean bridge is no longer a theory, but the everyday work of the Russian special services. In Crimea, FSB officers regularly identify spies and saboteurs who were trained by the SBU and the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.

So, on August 12, 2017, the FSB detained Gennady Limeshko, a native of the Kharkiv region. During interrogation, he confessed that he had undergone reconnaissance and sabotage training. The Ukrainian had to report to the curators about the de-energization of the coastal Sudak.

Ukrainian officials claim that the Crimean bridge poses a threat to national security. Kyiv fears that the transport crossing will restrict the movement of ships from Mariupol and Berdyansk, located on the Sea of ​​Azov.

Experts from the Center for Research on the Army, Conversion and Disarmament (Kyiv) believe that Russia's actions are "exclusively military-political in color, form a new field of socio-economic risks of stagnation in the Ukrainian Sea of ​​Azov,<…>raise threats in the context of the land corridor to the occupied Crimea.”

Sergey Goncharov, president of the association of veterans of the Alfa anti-terror unit, said in an interview with RT that Russia's Crimean bridge would have to be protected primarily from encroachments by Ukraine. In his opinion, the National Guard is able to cope with this task.

“Kyiv will do everything possible to prevent the construction, and with the help of sabotage, prevent the operation of this bridge. However, the Russian Guard has specially trained fighters to reliably protect the Kerch Bridge, ”concluded Goncharov.

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A marine brigade will be created to protect the transport crossing through the Kerch Strait. This was stated by the director of the National Guard Viktor Zolotov. According to him, the federal service has accumulated extensive experience in the field of security. Under the protection of the department there are 74 strategic objects. The issue of protecting the Crimean bridge has become particularly relevant in connection with the detentions of Ukrainian saboteurs in the region. The crossing will have to be protected primarily from encroachments from Kyiv, experts say.

A new formation will appear in the structure of the Russian Guard, whose duties will include the protection of the Crimean bridge. According to existing plans, in 2019 the transport crossing will connect the peninsula and mainland Russia with a bus road and a railway track.

“In order to solve the tasks assigned to the Russian Guard to ensure the safety of the transport passage through the Kerch Strait, a new formation will have to be formed - a naval brigade,” said Director of the Russian Guard Viktor Zolotov, speaking at a meeting in the Federation Council.

According to him, the employees of the department have accumulated quite a lot of experience in the field of ensuring the security of objects of strategic importance. According to Zolotov, 74 important state facilities are under the protection of the Russian Guard.

As part of the implementation of the Crimean Bridge project, more than half of the construction work has already been completed. Igor Astakhov, deputy head of the Federal Road Agency of the Russian Federation, announced this on Wednesday. In the summer, the builders carried out two key operations: they installed the road and railway arches of the bridge.

The first piles in the bottom of the Kerch Strait began to be driven in the spring of 2016. The general contractor Stroygazmontazh expects that the highway through the Kerch Strait will open on December 18, 2018, and the railway on December 1, 2019. The bridge will stretch for 19 km and will be the longest in Russia.

Scuba Diving Squad

In mid-September 2016, the Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Maxim Sokolov announced that there was a section in the design documentation of the bridge dedicated to anti-terrorist security.

Shortly before this, information appeared in the media that the National Guard was planning to create a detachment of combat scuba divers, whose tasks would include repelling saboteur attacks and searching for explosives. In addition, combat divers must neutralize ammunition from the times of the Great Patriotic War and drive away diving enthusiasts from the piles of the bridge.

Scuba divers of the Russian Guard will be provided with special small arms (in particular, the ADS small arms and grenade launcher system), high-speed anti-sabotage boats and surveillance equipment capable of monitoring the sea depths.

On the boats of the Russian Guard (presumably project 21980 "Rook"), special reconnaissance vehicles will be installed that will allow them to detect enemy manpower and underwater targets.

On March 30, 2017, Deputy Prime Minister of Crimea Georgy Muradov stated that the security of the Crimean bridge would be controlled by "all forces, including the military component" and special services.

Viktor Murakhovsky, editor-in-chief of Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine, believes that the Crimean bridge will be mainly protected from saboteurs. The establishment of the Marine Brigade means that the National Guard will focus on the protection of the water area, including monitoring the underwater situation.

“In addition to boats, autonomous underwater vehicles, high-resolution sonar systems and stationary surveillance equipment will be involved that will monitor the situation around the bridge day and night,” Murakhovsky said in an interview with RT.

As Murakhovsky clarified, the Crimean bridge is a strategic object of the first category, which implies the adoption of special measures to protect against "active external influence."

The expert believes that the state will also provide air defense of the transport crossing. According to Murakhovsky, the Buk and Tor anti-aircraft systems, as well as several radar stations, will cope with this task.

Protection from Ukraine

Meanwhile, ensuring the security of the Crimean bridge is no longer a theory, but the everyday work of the Russian special services. In Crimea, FSB officers regularly identify spies and saboteurs who were trained by the SBU and the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.

So, on August 12, 2017, the FSB detained Gennady Limeshko, a native of the Kharkov region. During interrogation, he confessed that he had undergone reconnaissance and sabotage training. The Ukrainian had to report to the curators about the de-energization of the coastal Sudak.

Ukrainian officials claim that the Crimean bridge poses a threat to national security. Kyiv fears that the transport crossing will restrict the movement of ships from Mariupol and Berdyansk, located on the Sea of ​​Azov.

Experts from the Center for Research on the Army, Conversion and Disarmament (Kyiv) believe that Russia's actions are "exclusively military-political in color, form a new field of socio-economic risks of stagnation in the Ukrainian Azov region, and increase threats in the context of a land corridor to the occupied Crimea."

Sergey Goncharov, president of the association of veterans of the Alfa anti-terror unit, said in an interview with RT that Russia's Crimean bridge would have to be protected primarily from encroachments by Ukraine. In his opinion, the National Guard is able to cope with this task.

“Kyiv will do everything possible to prevent the construction, and with the help of sabotage, prevent the operation of this bridge. However, the Russian Guard has specially trained fighters to reliably protect the Kerch Bridge, ”concluded Goncharov.

Our Kerch bridge made Ukraine fight in hysterics

The West must immediately stop the construction of the Kerch bridge. This, according to the press service of the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine, was stated by the head of the department Vladimir Omelyan.

“The illegal construction of the bridge must be urgently stopped, and this is only possible under pressure from Ukraine’s international partners and additional sanctions against Russia as a state, against companies and individuals involved in illegal construction,” Omelyan said.

According to him, the construction of structures in the Kerch Strait directly affects the transport infrastructure and economy of Ukraine, in particular, the number of ship calls and cargo turnover in the seaports of Mariupol and Berdyansk are reduced, and the loading of grain terminals is decreasing.

According to the data announced by the Ukrainian minister, the port of Berdyansk is losing 448.7 thousand tons of cargo traffic, and the shortfall in port dues by the end of the year will amount to 206 thousand dollars. The Mariupol port, according to him, in 2017 loses 705,000 tons of cargo traffic, and the amount of lost port dues will be $130,000.

Omelyan also said that Ukraine is a maritime power, "it has always been, is and will be." “This is a matter of maritime trade missions of Kievan Rus since the 10th century and the glorious Cossack maritime military campaigns of Hetman Sahaidachny and other legendary hetmans,” the minister said.

Recall that earlier in September, a representative of the so-called. "Prosecutor's Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea" Gunduz Mammadov said that the damage to Ukraine from the construction of the Crimean bridge is more than 10 billion hryvnia (22 billion rubles). “We are preparing the appointment of environmental engineering expertise,” he said.

Then the President Petro Poroshenko ordered to send a lawsuit to Russia because of the "environmental damage" from the construction of the Crimean bridge.

June 21 Deputy Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Yuri Lavrenyuk said that the construction of the structure would lead, in particular, to a significant reduction in ship calls to the seaports of Mariupol and Berdyansk, a decrease in their cargo turnover, as well as the profitability of metallurgical enterprises in the region. The official also complained that Russia did not consult with Kyiv about the construction of the structure. In early August, it became known that Kyiv was preparing a lawsuit against Russia in connection with the above losses for the Azov ports. We also remind you that the construction of the bridge is ahead of schedule. On November 21, builders connected the spit and Tuzla Island.

Some incomprehensible minister of an incomprehensible order - the government does not dare to call this gang a language - turned to an equally incomprehensible "world community". Why not alien civilizations? - asks a question Forum Editor-in-Chief. Moscow time Anatoly Baranov. - In general, all this happened at some incomprehensible conference in Kyiv, with reference to some incomprehensible "law" - well, maybe a person drank? Maybe those who adopted some kind of “law” also drank? People often drink in Ukraine, this is normal. And now there are problems with lard - they drank, but did not eat. I'm not even mocking - look at the minister's arguments, some sea routes laid by the Cossacks and Hetmans ... I believe that Russia should guarantee the Cossacks and Hetmans unhindered passage under the bridge upon presentation of appropriate international certificates. There should be a sign posted on the bridge. And the incident will be over.

"SP": - How dangerous is the bridge for Ukraine in reality?

Nothing. Ukraine simply does not have ships of such a tonnage that could not pass under the Kerch bridge. And for foreign ships there are restrictions on tonnage and size when passing through the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles - there is the Montreux Convention, just recognized by the world community.

"SP": - What measures from the international community can expect Kyiv? Are hopes for new sanctions justified?

It is not very clear what the international community should respond to? To the drunken chatter of the conference participants in Kyiv? I don't recall that international sanctions were ever imposed for the construction of infrastructure facilities in disputed territories. Here, for example, Turkey recently laid a water pipeline on the seabed to Northern Cyprus, where there are problems with water. Northern Cyprus has been a disputed territory for 40 years, but no one has yet demanded that the Turks destroy the water supply and leave the unrecognized republic without water.

"SP": - How important is this bridge for Russia? Are there any sanctions that could force Moscow to abandon it?

This bridge is a necessary condition for the development of Crimea, even regardless of whose jurisdiction the peninsula belongs to. Plans for the construction of the bridge existed for a long time, and in the Soviet period, and Luzhkov suggested that Ukraine build this bridge "on a par" with Moscow. Now Russia is building it on its own, and there is no doubt that the construction will be completed sooner or later. And so far there is no case in the world practice that someone was forced to destroy such an object, based on some kind of chicanery claims. By and large, this would be wild barbarism - and no one will agree to this, of course. Except for Ukraine, but this sub-state has nothing more than a tinned throat, and never will under such leadership.

"SP": - Is it possible to expect that Kyiv will not limit itself to appeals to the world community and will try to stop the construction of the bridge in some other way?

Kyiv will entertain the world community with various claims for a long time to come. Shut down America and all that. Well, maybe not America, but Russia - although they already have claims against Poland and Hungary. Coming soon to America too. Power in the country was seized by a brigade of clowns, and evil clowns, as in the horror movie of Stephen King. Evil but funny. But these are not real seizures - it's like the difference between an epileptic seizure and a hysterical one. The epileptic will fall and can hurt himself badly, but the hysteric will never, will convulse, foam from the mouth, but will fall gently.

To really interfere with the construction is to run into a military response, they are afraid of this, of course. Yes, and with cries - as long as they give money from overseas for hysterical seizures, they will convulse, they will stop paying for "non-artistic amateur performances" - everything will stop right there. By the way, they mined the entire coast from Novoazovsk and beyond. This, interestingly, does not interfere with navigation? And then the mines come off during storms, then they float freely - it doesn’t interfere, no? This is a real threat to shipping, and not only Ukrainian. At the very first collision of a Russian ship with a free-floating Ukrainian mine, I would appeal to the UN Security Council with a demand to forcibly clear the Azov coast. Here would be the answer.

All statements by the Ukrainian side on Crimea have several standard reasons, - I'm sure political scientist Ivan Mezyuho. - Firstly, Ukrainian politicians raise the topic of Crimea for internal propaganda. Secondly, the topic of Crimea is periodically raised by Ukraine to remind the world community of itself, which, in fact, has come to terms with the Russian status of Crimea. Thirdly, the official statements of Ukrainian officials on the Crimean issue form the basis of the ongoing anti-Russian sanctions by the West.

In general, the very fact that they already recognize the construction of the bridge is pleasing - this is already good, because in the early years of Crimea being part of Russia, the Ukrainian media told their citizens that the construction of the Kerch bridge was a “fake”, propaganda informational PR Moscow action.

"SP": - What are these "historical sea routes" that were laid in the past by "legendary Cossacks and hetmans"? What significance do they have today?

What exactly the minister said to the Ukrainians - only he himself knows. Perhaps he meant the military campaigns of the Zaporizhzhya Cossacks on the "seagulls". True, in those days no Ukraine existed.

"SP": - Are Omelyan's fears about damage justified? Will the bridge really hit the Ukrainian economy?

Ukrainian ports on the Sea of ​​Azov are not the largest, however, Ukrainian ships can pose a potential danger to the bridge across the Kerch Strait. We don’t have 100% confidence that Ukraine will not supply any boat with explosives and will not try to blow it up near the bridge? There are many madmen and vassals of Western states in the leadership of Ukraine who can carry out such an order. So that Ukrainian ports on the Sea of ​​Azov do not potentially suffer economic losses as a result of the operation of the Kerch Bridge, it is time for Kyiv to stop sending its saboteurs and spies to Crimea.

"SP": - And what about the "world community" to which Omelyan addresses? Why did it not pay attention to the bridge before and will it now?

It is possible that some Western countries will someday speak out on this topic. Today, I have the impression that this topic does not arouse any special interest among the “world community”.

The Crimean bridge will be covered with a shield

The Russian military and special services are preparing to repel a sabotage attack on the Crimean bridge, which has already been announced in Ukraine. Patrol boats and combat swimmers have been relocated to the facility area. The bridge itself is equipped with additional protection.

The main responsibility for the safety of the "road of life" is assigned to the peninsula to the National Guard. The service is ready to use a platoon of sea boats stationed in Crimea to protect the bridge, which consists of three vessels (two small patrol boats of project 04024 "Afalina" and one "Strizh-4D"), but will soon be deployed to the detachment. The leadership of the Russian Guard has already agreed with the Zelenodolsk shipbuilding plant on the construction of four Grachonok anti-sabotage boats that will patrol the waters in the Kerch Strait, Svobodnaya Pressa reports.

Each Rook is equipped with a KPVT heavy machine gun and four Igla-1 man-portable anti-aircraft missile systems. The main caliber of such a boat is a small-sized remote-controlled anti-sabotage grenade launcher DP-65 and a hand-held double-barreled anti-sabotage grenade launcher DP-64 "Nepryadva". Within a radius of 400 m from the boat, they are able to exterminate all life under water.

The approaches to the bridge on the water will be guarded by combat swimmers Russian Guard. A similar unit was formed in the internal troops back in 2008, and in December 2016, representatives of the Russian Guard agreed with the administration of Kerch to allocate several sites around the city to the service for the construction of military camps. One of them will be located right on the seashore.

In addition, the city authorities offered the National Guard to occupy the empty building of the former Ukrainian frontier post on the island of Tuzla, through which the Crimean bridge is being laid. Tuzla is closer to Taman than to Crimea, but still it is easier to control both banks from here. There is simply no better place for basing combat swimmers of the Russian Guard in the vicinity.

In addition to the forces of the Russian Guard, the bridge will be guarded by high-speed anti-sabotage patrols boat project 03160 "Raptor". Each one is equipped with a universal remote-controlled combat module "Uprava-Kord" with a caliber of 14.5 mm and two machine guns 6P41 "Pecheneg" with a caliber of 7.62 mm. In September, they were transferred from Sevastopol to the Kerch region.

Serious security measures are taken at the construction site. Special engineering barriers have been installed at all construction sites of the Crimean Bridge. Equipped with 30 access posts. More than 120 video cameras with the possibility of long-term data storage conduct round-the-clock monitoring. The control of cargoes brought to the construction site is carried out by mobile inspection complexes at specially equipped sites on both sides of the strait.

Soon they will stand guard over the bridge complex hydroacoustic systems, developed by the Morinformsystem-Agat concern. Among them, perhaps, will be the Amulet-P hydroacoustic warning device. When divers are detected, it first turns on the alarm with the requirement to leave the territory. If this does not work, the intensity of the sound signal rises to a pain threshold that the person is not able to withstand. He either gives up or dies.

In a word, a line of defense in depth against attack from the air, from land, from the surface of the sea, and from the depths of the sea is being created in advance around the future bridge. All potential attacks on the facility will be reflected, military experts are sure.

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