MOSCOW, October 10. /TASS/. Head of Russian State Duma Defense Committee Andrey Kartapolov expressed his hope that President Vladimir Putin’s warning of brutal response to potential attempts to carry out terror attacks on the Russian territory will be heard by "those who were supposed to hear them."

"The President did say that, if terrorist antics continue, then they will get a response every time. Let those who have ears hear, and I hope that those who were supposed to hear them have indeed heard them and they will draw correct conclusions. If they don’t, it’s their problems. It will be problems for them personally as well as for their people, whom they put in a very difficult situation," the lawmaker told TASS Monday.

Speaking during a meeting of the Russian Security Council Monday, Putin warned Kiev that, if Ukrainian authorities continue their attempts to carry out terror attacks on the Russian territory, responses will be brutal.

A truck exploded on the Crimean Bridge on Saturday morning, causing several fuel tanks of a train to catch fire. Three people were killed in the blast. Two spans of the bridge’s roadway to the peninsula collapsed but a lane leading from Crimea to the Krasnodar Region reportedly remained intact.

Russian Investigative Committee head Alexander Bastrykin called it a terror attack, adding that Ukrainian intelligence agencies are responsible for the attack. The bridge traffic has been restored; a ferry crossing is operational as well.