On Saturday, July 29, the Defense Forces of Ukraine conducted a successful strike on the Chonhar Bridge, which connects the mainland of Ukraine with the Crimean Peninsula, the Strategic Communications Department of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced.
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“On July 29, 2023, in the morning, the Ukrainian Defense Forces successfully struck the Chonhar Bridge,” the administration’s statement says. in the statement.
On Saturday morning, occupier sources wrote that Russian air defense systems allegedly shot down 12 “Storm Shadow” missiles that tried to damage the railway between Kherson region and Crimea.
On the other hand, as the UNIAN agency writes, Russian tourists reported in chats that traffic over the bridge was stopped because it was allegedly damaged. Local residents have also reported damage to the bridge.
If this information is confirmed, this is not the first time that there has been an attack on the Chonghar Bridge. The explosion hit it already on June 22. The bridge is important for the occupiers to supply the army in the Zaporizhzhia region, where the Ukrainian counteroffensive continues.
Crimea is connected to the mainland of Ukraine by a road through Armyansk, as well as through Chonghar, where there are railway and road bridges. The road from Chonhar leads through the Zaporizhzhya region, which is one of the directions of the Ukrainian counterattack. The Crimean peninsula is connected to Russia by the 19-kilometer-long Crimean bridge, which was built after the occupation of the peninsula in 2014.
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began on the morning of February 24, 2022, with rocket fire, airstrikes, and the arrival of ground forces. Russia initially cited the “denazification” of Ukraine as one of the goals of the invasion.
The occupiers in Ukraine have suffered heavy losses and are accused of deliberate killing of civilians, as well as other war crimes. The atrocities of the occupiers began to come to light en masse after the Ukrainians drove them out of areas around Kyiv, such as Bucha.
Russia’s treatment of Ukrainians, including killing and setting up infiltration camps, is described in this “fascist manifesto” published by the Kremlin’s propaganda news agency “RIA Novosti”.
In general, the war in Ukraine has been going on since 2014, when Russia occupied the Crimean peninsula and started a war in eastern Ukraine.
2023-07-29 20:04:21
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