They bombed them

The TFR opened a case against the American journalist Tom Rogan about calls for terrorism for the publication in the newspaper Washington Examiner "Ukraine should destroy the Putin Crimean bridge." This was reported on the website of the department.

The publication states that the case is qualified under Article 205 of the Criminal Code (terrorist attack). However, the fabula set forth does not correspond to this qualifications. As it can be assumed, in reality, Rogan was imputed part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Code (public calls for terrorism through the media), which provides from 5 to 7 years of the colony.

The Investigative Committee also announced a pre -investigation verification of the chief editor of Washington Examiner Hugo Gurdon.

Article 32-year-old Rogan appeared on May 15, on the opening day of the bridge, under the section "Opinions". The journalist called the building of the bridge "an outrageous insult to Ukraine as a state." “The state that allows you to steal its territory and connect it with the lands of the kidnapper, takes a step towards its death,” the author emphasized.

“Fortunately,” Rogan remarked, “Ukraine has the opportunity to inflict air strikes on the bridge, which at least temporarily disable it. Since the length of the bridge is significant, the Ukrainian Air Force can minimize the risk for people moving through it.”

Russia will undoubtedly react to a blow, the journalist continued. However, the probability of escalation of aggression against Ukraine in the coming months, he noted, in any case very high. The USA "can and should" support Ukraine with its military power, Rogan emphasized.

Putin’s passage along the bridge driving KamAZ at the head of the column of construction equipment called the author typical of the head of the Russian state Bravada. Speaking of billions of dollars spent on construction, the journalist mentioned that the Russian government is almost bankrupt.

On the eve of the sharp criticism of the "provocative" article, the Russian Embassy in the United States made . "We consider this material as a reflection of the true intentions of a certain part of the Washington establishment, which continues the line for inciting hatred and enmity between Ukraine and Russia," the diplomatic mission said.

At the same time, officials recalled the presence of Article 205.2 in the Russian Criminal Code.

As reported by RBC, in the afternoon, the press secretary of Vladimir Putin Dmitry Peskov called the call of Rogan "such madness." An article about the Crimean bridge, the official said - "ugly manifestation of poor -quality journalism." He also noticed that such calls "it makes sense to pay attention to law enforcement agencies," including the American one.

On May 15, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko called the construction of the Kerch bridge "another evidence of neglect of international law from the Kremlin." “Especially cynical,” the president emphasized, “to open the bridge on the eve of the next anniversary of the deportation of the Crimean Tatar people by the Stalinist regime.” Poroshenko recalled that in the lawsuit of Ukraine to Russia, filed in the International Arbitration Court in the Hague in connection with the violation of the UN Convention on the Law of 1982, the illegal construction of the Crimean bridge was also mentioned. “The bridge will definitely need the invaders when they will hastily leave our Crimea,” the President of Ukraine concluded.

Earlier, the chairman of the Majlis of the Crimean Tatar people, Refat Chubarov, said that after the liberation of Crimea, the bridge should become "part of the great indemnity of the damage that Russia caused to Ukraine."

After the opening of the bridge, the US State Department condemned its illegal construction .