An attack on the bridge over the Kerch Strait is likely to have certain consequences for Russian military logistics in southern Ukraine.
Analysts of the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) came to this conclusion.
Footage from the scene shows that one road span of the bridge collapsed, another was damaged, but did not fall. Russia’s transport ministry said the strikes did not damage the railway bridge or the abutments of the road bridge, and rail traffic across the strait resumed a few hours after the strike.
The occupation authorities redirected civilian traffic from Crimea to Russia through the occupied south of Ukraine. Huge traffic jams formed in the Dzhankoy district of Crimea and the occupied Kherson region in the direction of Melitopol.
Russian tourists fleeing the peninsula have complicated traffic and thus hinder military logistics from Crimea to rear areas in Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions.
Therefore, the occupation authorities ask people to consider alternative exit routes in order not to create traffic problems.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Security Service of Ukraine refused to comment on the strikes on the bridge. ISW emphasizes that the bridge across the Kerch Strait and military bases in occupied Crimea are legitimate targets for the Defense Forces of Ukraine.