Tavriya train on the route St. Petersburg — Sevastopol on the Crimean bridge. Archival photoSIMFEROPOL, Apr 10 Reports about the «mining of the Crimean bridge» are false, fake information is sent out by the Ukrainian Center for Information and Psychological Operations and «sofa warriors», said Oleg Kryuchkov, adviser to the head of Crimea on information policy. According to him, the perpetrators introduce themselves as the «Emergencies Ministry of Russia» and are trying to convince the inhabitants of the peninsula that there are no safe ways out of it, since all of them are allegedly mined. In addition, the interlocutor of the agency warned, these people are urging Russians not to leave their homes, not to leave by car, but to wait for civil defense signals in case of «explosions».
"This fake from Ukraine is aimed at creating panic on the peninsula and mainland. There are no reports of mining of any objects in Crimea", Kryuchkov told reporters.
According to him, the accounts from which the information comes do not belong to the Ministry of Emergency Situations. reference in «about oneself», which anyone can make. There are no mining or other threats to the Crimean bridge or other objects, roads. This is another fake of Ukrainian «sofa warriors» and the center of information and psychological operations, designed for emotional perception. Nothing to do with reality he doesn’t,” Kryuchkov emphasized. He urged to remain calm and not to believe the rumors.