London says Ukraine attacks on Kherson-Crimea bridge affect Russia’s logistics

MADRID, June 28 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The UK Intelligence services have indicated that the latest attacks by the Ukrainian Army against bridges connecting the province of Kherson with the Crimean peninsula, annexed by Russia in 2014, are causing delays in the arrival of Russian logistics convoys to “defend themselves before the great Ukrainian offensive” in Zaporizhia.

Thus, they have indicated that the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked the Dhonhar bridges on June 22, which “serve one of the two main road supply routes between Crimea and Kherson”, before specifying that “they are the most direct route between the Russian logistics hub in the Crimea, in Dzhankoi, and the Zaporizhia sector”.

“The temporary closure of the route caused Russia’s vital logistics convoys to take 50 percent longer to reach the front via alternative routes,” they said, according to a statement published by the British Ministry of Defense through their account. on the social network Twitter.

In this line, they have stressed that “there is information indicating that the authorities have almost certainly built a replacement pontoon at the crossing in the 24 hours after the attack”, although “it is very likely that the crossings are limited to only military traffic”. “The speed at which an alternative crossing was built indicates the vitality of the route for Russian military efforts in occupied Ukraine,” they have settled.