Posted on 07/20/2022 2:02:41 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Ukrainian shelling badly damaged the crucial Antonivskyi bridge in the Russia-controlled Kherson region of southern Ukraine, Moscow-installed regional authorities said on Wednesday.
The bridge - one of only two crossing points for Russian forces to territory they have occupied on the western bank of the vast Dnipro river in southern Ukraine - has been a key target for Ukrainian forces in recent days, with Kyiv using high-precision U.S.-supplied rockets to try to destroy it.
The Russian-backed head of the Kherson region, Volodymyr Saldo, closed the bridge to cargo traffic on Wednesday morning in what he called a "temporary restriction" to allow repair works.
Passenger cars were still able to use the bridge, which is more than a kilometre long, Saldo said in an "urgent appeal" published on social media.
Local officials told the RIA news agency that Ukraine hit the bridge at around 4:00 a.m. with 12 shells from the newly arrived High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS), a U.S. supplied long-range artillery weapon which Kyiv hopes will turn the tide of the war.
"If the strikes continue, the bridge might collapse," the TASS news agency quoted the deputy head of the Russian-installed administration as saying.
Britain's defence ministry described the bridge as a "key vulnerability for Russian forces".
"It is one of only two road crossing points over the Dnipro by which Russia can supply or withdraw its forces in the territory it has occupied west of the river," it said in a daily intelligence briefing.
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so when will Russia win the war is supposedly won months ago?
But how is that million man army going to retake the south of Ukraine if they blew up the bridge.
That’s usually done as a last resort when you are retreating.
Unfortunately, Ukraine doesn’t appear to have the combat power to push the Russians back. Their attempts in the south has been stalled for several weeks. 12 rockets? Wow, either they aren’t that effective or this is some strong concrete.
The bridge and the river is to the rear of the Russian occupiers and now they can’t receive troops and supplies from Crimea nor retreat back to Crimea. Russian troops are now cutoff with a river to their backs.
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it will be fully repaired in less than a week
It will be bombed again tonight. Ukraine and the US/NATO are sending Putin a message.
Russians are not letting any trucks or any other heavy transport vehicles on the bridge. That includes troop carriers. The attack was quite effective. And Russians in Kherson are panicking because they know they can’t cross the river and escape to Crimea.
What military geniuses deploy their troops with a massive river at their backs?
Russia now evacuating their supply train from Kherson rail yard back to Crimea before Ukraine hits the railway bridge across the river.
Hit again last night. Completely closed according to twitter reports.
Ukraine just hit the Antonovisky bridge again tonight for the 3rd time.
Lols -— Blowed up real good, Russia gets more egg on their face. Idiots and Putin’s cannon fodder from the non-Russian ethnic regions signing up to grab the bonuses Putin is paying out. Every real Russian boy is dodging “service” in Putin’s invasion army.
“Ukraine just hit the Antonovisky bridge again tonight for the 3rd time.”
Keeps getting better and better. You know the Ukie forces are howling with laughter as they hit Ivan’s bridges again and again.
If I were Vlad I would stay in Iran, become a Mullah and chill. And sit this war out. The rotten old motherless bastard is getting too stressed out by the Ukies
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