KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine struck a bridge within the occupied Sad Sea space of Kherson on Saturday, focused on a Russian supply route as Kyiv prepares for a serious counter-offensive, a Ukrainian regional legit talked about.
The strike hit the Daryivskyi bridge across the Ingulets river outdated for provides by Russian troops, days after a key bridge over the shut by Dnieper used to be hit, talked about an adviser to the gap’s governor who’s on Ukrainian-held territory.
“Each bridge is a gentle level for logistics and our militia are skilfully destroying the enemy gadget. Here’s no longer yet the liberation of Kherson, but a severe preparatory step in that course,” the legit, Serhiy Khlan, wrote on Fb.
The deputy head of the Russian-installed regional authority talked about the bridge had been hit by seven rockets from Western-supplied high mobility artillery rocket programs (HIMARS), but that the bridge unexcited labored, Russia’s TASS files agency talked about.
The assertions from both aspects would possibly per chance presumably presumably no longer be independently verified by Reuters.
Ukraine has been using western-supplied prolonged-range weapons to hit Russian supply lines and ammunition dumps with a notion to turn the tide within the battle and put collectively a counter-offensive in Kherson space.
Russia has captured swathes of southern and jap Ukraine because it invaded on Feb. 24.
(Reporting by Natalia Zinets; writing by Tom Balmforth; editing by Andrew Cawthorne)