Ukraine Destroys Key Bridge

[ichkeria]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine-antonivskyi-bridge-essential-russian-supply-lines-occupied-kherson/

Last night Ukrainian forces made the latest of a series of attacks on the Antonivsky bridge over the Dnipro on the eastern outskirts of the occupied southern city of Kherson.
The link I have included cites only Russian and collaborationist sources, but satellite photography shows that an entire, if small, section of the bridge has been removed, creating a gap.
This bridge is the main supply route (and escape route to Crimea) for russian occupiers in the city. A bridge on a dam much further upriver has also been damaged, less seriously. Additionally road and rail links are being targeted before an assault on the city, which currently affords russia its only access to the north of the Dnipro river that forms a natural barrier down the country.
They've started a pontoon bridge, but that sounds like a suicide mission.
If Ukraine retakes Kherson it will be a real turning point in the war.

[ichkeria]

"Disables" was what I should have put.

[Peter Pedant]

Thank Ich
and thanks for starting to report again

I hope it goes OK - the marxists at the beeb have difficulty in reporting this Russian war of er liberation

[ichkeria]

We shouldn’t talk up the energy crisis either. Russia ultimately has a lot more to lose from what it’s doing than Europe.

[Peter Pedant]

I felt sorry for Merkel
" I have been wrong for 20 y"
oops
her comment on ost-politik ( = we have to trade with russia and not bomb the crap out of them the whole time.) and it seemed to sensible at the time

[ichkeria]

Germany has had a guilt complex re Russia since 1945 and an anti-nuclear energy one also.

[Peter Pedant]

Leaving aside the war up to April 1945
what the Russians did to their German POWs was - - - unkind ( large quantity of 10y in a labour camp for war crimes)

[jourdain2]

I'd also like to thank you ichkeria. Mainstream news did mention it - en passante - and I was trying to work out exactly how significant it was; obviously it was important. Yes, it could be a turning point and the West must, must retain its level of support at the very least i.m.o..
Some good news.

[ichkeria]

The BBC has now caught up (in fairness you wouldn't expect them to report things off social media straight off).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/business-62330230

Locals say the occupiers are running a ferry across the Dnipro at the moment, possibly forcing civilians to accompany military as human shields.
This morning's missile bombardment of Kyiv and Chernihiv suggests an element of revenge. It's what they usually do.

[Gromit]

Very good news if true.

[ichkeria]

In the link an "expert" says forces are being sent to Crimea.
In fact the opposite appears the case.
And mention is made of trying to divert Ukrainian arttention by an offensive elsewhere, but that already happened, with russian forces storming the entire Donetsk front line last night. They continue to make painful progress there in some places (Wagner forces taking a defunct power station) and to be driven back in others

[jno]

time I went to Specsavers, I think - I read that as Kew Bridge.

[ichkeria]

Five people killed at a bus stop this morning as russia rained cluster bombs on the city.
Widespread revulsion as russian telegram channels curculate a video - assessed by genuine by Bellingcat - of a Ukrainian POW in Sieverodonetsk being castrated. It was also shown on russian tv.
Meanwhile, a largely overlooked Ukrainian counteroffensive is making progress in SE Kharkiv region

[ichkeria]

Bus stop in Mykolayiv I should have said