That's according to Ukrinform which, citing the Ukraine's Defense Intelligence.
Vadym Skibitskyi called the recent destruction of the Crimean bridge a "significant blow to russia" as it disrupts the supply lines of the russian occupation forces, Ukrinform notes.
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"The bridge is a complex structure, but there is an opportunity to strike it and hinder, first of all, logistical military supplies to russian troops on our territory," the representative of the Defense Intelligance of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine said.
Vadym Skibitskyi also recalled that russia had started the construction of an illegal structure across the Kerch Strait after the failure of a "Novorossiya" plan that provided for the creation of a land corridor from Russian territory to the peninsula in the first years of the russian-Ukrainian war.
"(The Crimean bridge) is a strategic object that supplied the russian group of troops first in Crimea, and today it supplies the entire southern group of troops, which is located both on the peninsula and in our temporarily occupied territories of the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions," the representative of Ukraine’s Defense Intelligance said.
Early on July 17, one section of the Kerch Strait Bridge collapsed following an explosion.
As Defense Express rported, Early on July 17, one section of the Kerch Strait Bridge collapsed following an explosion. We also wrote, that Ukraine’s President Said the Kerch Bridge Must Be Neutralized while Defense Forses of Ukraine were Advancing In the Tavria Direction, Held Initiative, Put Pressure on russians in Bakhmut Direction.
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