After the explosions on the “Crimean Bridge” on October 8, the occupiers began to promise to “restore” the illegal structure in the “shortest terms”, naming different dates for the fall of 2022. At the same time, it was obvious that the amount of damage was much greater than the Russian invaders’ propaganda claimed.
The aggressor has now stated that the allegedly “high pace of construction” made it possible to “postpone the planned opening date of the damaged bridge to December 20, 2022,” which it seeks to pass off as “significant success.”
At the same time, the Russian occupiers finally admitted that the railway part of the structure received a “thermal impact”, and promise to replace the railway spans “next year”.
In fact, the Russian invaders are unable to carry out such work in the autumn-winter period at a thirty-meter height of the bridge, but at the same time they explain the delay by “lack of urgent need”
It is alleged that now “the railway line of the bridge is in full operation with restrictions on the speed of movement of trains”, while it is frivolously stated that “there are no threats of collapse in the short term”.
At the same time, most experts note that after the explosions on the “Crimean Bridge”, its railway capacity has significantly decreased, which directly affects the military logistics of the aggressor.
These events are associated not only with an attempt by the occupiers to establish an illegal “land corridor” for vehicles through occupied Melitopol, but also with convulsive and unsuccessful attempts by the aggressor to “push back” the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the areas of the Donetsk region close to the “alternative” railway route to the Crimea through Volnovakha, Kamysh-Zorya and Melitopol.
It is noteworthy that some experts of the occupiers admit that the road and rail communication through the “land corridor” through Melitopol is now objectively located in the zone of operation of missile weapons from the right bank of the Dnipro. At the same time, they “reassuringly” declare that this “corridor” supposedly “does not contain infrastructure facilities” vulnerable to explosions and shelling.
At the same time, these “experts” prefer not to mention the bridges in the Sivash Bay area, as well as a number of other “land corridor’s” interesting objects in the occupied part of the Zaporizhzhya Region.
