Ihor Korotchenko, a favorite military columnist of Kremlin-controlled Russian television, claims that Great Britain is preparing a plan to attack the Crimean bridge with the participation of “relevant Ukrainian services.”

“There are reports that a plan to strike the Crimean Bridge is now being developed under the leadership of Ben Wallace (not the British Defense Secretary). I emphasize: a high-ranking official of the British government, Defense Minister Ben Wallace, under his leadership is developing an operation to strike the Crimean bridge,” Korotchenko claims.

He then outlines the alleged scenario of the plan: “a cargo ship under a neutral flag is heading to the port of Georgia as part of an operation by the Ministry of Defense of Great Britain, together with the relevant Ukrainian services, to install anti-ship missiles. on a cargo ship bound for a Georgian port.”

He assures that the Crimea bridge has solid air defenses, but the British and Ukrainians will carry out the operation at night and rely on rough seas and “possibly stormy conditions”.

A Russian military analyst compares Ben Wallace to Osama bin Laden

Korotchenko then makes a series of even more bizarre claims, asking the British authorities to take action on this “information”, the source of which he did not name, and to search the UK Ministry of Defense to seize “relevant documents”.

“We’ve seen the search of Trump’s residence, so let’s do that with Scotland Yard and other British law enforcement because we’re talking about an act of international terrorism,” he urged.

Ihor Korotchenko ends his monologue by saying that the defense minister of Great Britain must be responsible for his “words and actions” because “in fact he is becoming a character like bin Laden.”

Korotchenko appears to have recently become a military commentator on Russian television, being an almost regular guest on Rossiya-1 and Channel One, Russia’s most popular television stations.

Problems of Russian television with military analysts

Earlier, in the course of the “special military operation” carried out on the orders of Putin on February 24, Russian TV channels encountered problems with military analysts who presented the fighting in a light that was not entirely favorable to the Kremlin.

On the other hand, Korotenko, in addition to his experience in military matters, also ventures into geopolitical speculation, as he recently stated that Hungary “in a few months” will have to decide whether it wants Ukrainian territories inhabited by ethnic Hungarians. .

Russian military bloggers such as Igor Girkin, a former commander of pro-Russian separatists in Donbas, and others are never invited to Russian TV shows because they are known to criticize the evolution of the “special forces operation” and the military leadership from Moscow on Telegram channels, where they have hundreds thousands of subscribers.

But a growing number of Russian military experts and analysts, some with close ties to Moscow’s defense ministry, have expressed concern about continuing the “special military operation” as the blitzkrieg envisioned by the Kremlin during war planning has backfired. a decisive failure, and Ukraine receives consistent military support from the West.

Korotchenko’s comments about a possible British plan to attack the Crimean Bridge, also known as the Kerch Bridge, came after explosions at an airbase on the peninsula sparked panic among local residents and consternation among some of the Kremlin’s most prominent propagandists.

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