Ukraine war: Attacks on critical road bridges in Russia-controlled territory

challenge your bell is with me now so Sean um it is a Monday talk to me about what's been happening uh over the weekend yeah good morning SJ overnight another barrage of Russian missile attacks over a number of Targets in Ukraine kupiansk and the north uh up their house and uh down to the South and uh and ramsden epro as well um these follows over Saturday night there were 70 attacks by Russia over the whole of the territory but it's not just the Russians conducting missile attacks also yesterday the ukrainians mounted an attack on the Chona Bridge which is one of the links up from Crimea the Russians claim that there were 12 missiles fired and they shot down nine of them Ukraine said there were two missiles fired and one got through regardless the damage was pretty significant and it's not just the damage to the bridge if you look at the Flames up there that's because there was a a gas pipeline beside it as well now although it looks impressive the harsh reality this will be repaired relatively simple yes it'll have to be closed why it does that but but it will be repaired pretty quickly and it follows also the weekend two of the Black Sea Fleet the Russian ships were targeted by the ukrainians and all the Russians claimed that they weren't hit the evidence suggested otherwise with listening aircraft they were transporting Fuel and resupplies to Crimea to support the military war effort why do you think these tactics are being used well one of the the key answers in on the front line at the moment the Russians are consuming Logistics at a huge quantity so ammunition fuel uh food resources just by way of an example the artillery Russian Safari about 10 000 rounds every day these rounds are 45 kilograms in weight each that's half a million kilograms of resp every single day so you need quite a lot of convoys backwards and forwards uh to sustain that there's two options of doing that you either route it through the country through Uh Russian occupied Ukraine up to the north over there that's quite dangerous and long the other way of doing it is via Crimea and up if you're going to do Crimea and up one way of doing it is by the Sea through Sebastopol that's why the ukrainians are targeting the Black Sea Fleet the other way of doing it is by the Kirch Bridge which is just near you over there you'll notice that the ukrainians targeted that and although it's not been out of commission the road bridge part of it is only operating at half strength and if you now look at how they would throw those supplies up through the north of Ukraine the Eastern Bridges the Chona Bridge that's what Ukraine have just targeted that forces the Russians to use the Western bridge and therefore not only is it longer but if you look up to the north that road takes you within 20 kilometers of the Ukraine occupied territutes means that the resupply route now is in artillery range of the ukrainians all of this it might look disconnected but it's all deliberately designed to Target the Russian logistical support for their operations in Ukraine so what does that mean for the war going forward do you think Sean well from a military perspective it makes a lot of sense the trouble is these things take time you normally see the results in weeks not days and it's quite difficult to see with we're mid-summer now it's going to be Autumn pretty soon it's meant to be a spring offensive they don't have the time available well the question I'd have is why wasn't this done several weeks ago it begs the question but of course I'm not involved in the war it's just a commentary on it but there's no doubt it will put um pressure onto Russian Logistics supply chain the challenge is will it help a breakthrough anytime soon we've not seen that yet and frankly Ukraine needs to get some sort of breakthrough and soon okay sure well we appreciate your commentary thank you

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Length: 3min 19sec (199 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 07 2023