The Ministry of Defense explained why the bridge in Syria collapsed

Expert: many players are interested in the destruction of the bridge across the Euphrates


In Syria, a bridge built by the Russian military through the Euphrates. On air radio Sputnik expert on the Middle East Grigory Lukyanov shared his opinion about who might be involved in the deliberate opening of locks on the dam.

The bridge erected by the Russian military through the Euphrates in the east of Syria was destroyed due to a sharp rise in the water level in the river after the deliberate opening of the dam locks, the official newspaper of the Russian Defense Ministry wrote the newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda. The military department does not exclude that it was an attempt by the US not to allow the strengthening of the legitimate authority of Damascus on the left bank of the river, the report said.

Russian military specialists erected a 210-meter bridge in September 2017, a few kilometers from the city of Deir ez Zor in northeast Syria, it was intended to be used to transfer military equipment and personnel to the eastern bank of the river. The capacity of the facility is eight thousand cars a day. It stood the weight of heavy armored vehicles, such as tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and rocket launcher systems.

According to Krasnaya Zvezda, on January 6, despite the absence of significant precipitation in the region, the water level in the Euphrates unexpectedly rose by several meters, and the speed of the current increased two-fold.

"As a result, the bridge was destroyed the next day," the report said.

"An investigation conducted by Syrian experts showed that the sharp change in the water situation was due to the deliberate opening of locks on the dam of the El Tabbah HPP located on the territory of opposition groups controlled by an" international coalition "led by the United States," the Ministry of Defense .

As they say in the message, there was no technical need for a sudden discharge of water on the dam.
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"According to experts, there is reason to believe that the dump was organized with some other goals, and it is possible that in such a barbarous way the American side attempted to prevent the government of the SAR on the left bank of the Euphrates from strengthening the legitimate authority," the newspaper writes. Russian military department.

On air radio Sputnik the teacher of HSE, the expert on the Near East Grigory Lukjanov has shared opinion about who can be involved in a collapse of the bridge.

"In order to make it more difficult for government troops to move to the other side of the Euphrates, a large number of players are interested, ranging from small groups of opposition associated with the" Syrian Democratic Forces "to the" Islamic State "units that continue to operate in this region * to act in the last few weeks in Idlib and on a number of other tracks, providing a sufficiently strong resistance to the offensive of the Syrian troops.This tactics associated with the destruction of infrastructures structure, and the artificial creation of technogenic local disasters, has already been used by supporters of the IG * to improve their own situation on the fronts, and this group is least interested in further restoring the social and economic infrastructure of the region, "said Grigory Lukyanov.

Link: https://ria.ru/radio_brief/20180209/1514282755.html