Ukrainian troops attacked bridges on the administrative border between the Kherson region and Crimea near Chongar, Acting Governor of the Kherson region Volodymyr Saldo said.
"The criminal Kiev regime committed a barbarous shelling of civilian facilities - bridges on the administrative border between the Kherson region and Crimea near Chongar," wrote Saldo in his Telegram channel.
According to a preliminary assessment, British Storm Shadow missiles were used during the strike, he added.
The road surface was damaged on the bridges, there were no casualties.
Обстрел Чонгарского моста на границе между Крымом и Херсонской областью не сможет кардинально нарушить логистику транспортного сухопутного коридора, сообщил в Telegram-канале советник главы республики по информационной политике Олег Крючков.
ReplyDeleteРанее глава Крыма Сергей Аксенов заявил, что ночью был нанесен удар по Чонгарскому мосту.
"Крым с Херсонской областью соединяет три пункта пропуска: два в районе Армянска и один в районе Джанкоя. Сбой в работе одного из них не может кардинально нарушить транспортную логистику сухопутного транспортного коридора", - написал Крючков.
По его словам, пока идет обследование конструкций Чонгарского моста выбирать для поездок в Запорожскую и Херсонскую область можно маршрут через город Армянск.
The Ukrainian armed forces attacked the Chongar bridge, which links Crimea and the Kherson Region, overnight into Thursday, Crimean head Sergey Aksenov wrote on his Telegram channel.
ReplyDelete"The Chongar bridge was attacked during the night. No one was hurt," he said, adding that car traffic was suspended.
Acting governor of the Kherson Region Vladimir Saldo said earlier that the Ukrainian armed forces used the British Storm Shadow missiles for attacking bridges on the administrative border between the Kherson Region and Crimea, according to preliminary estimates.
A preliminary inspection of the Chongar Bridge between the Kherson Region and the Republic of Crimea which was shelled by Ukrainian troops did not reveal any serious damage and will be restored quickly, Vladimir Konstantinov, chairman of the Crimean State Council, said.
ReplyDelete"We have information on one incoming strike. <...> This means that the destruction is most likely insignificant and it will be possible to restore [the bridge] quickly. But the final decision will be made today when they make an assessment. The commission is working there, as well as bomb disposal specialists and so on," he told the Rossiya-24 TV channel.