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A railway bridge over the North Crimean Canal near the village of Rozdolne “no longer exists,” Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces (SOF) said on Tuesday, describing it as the “first one” to be eliminated in occupied Crimea.
“Sorry, but we have an official urgent announcement: the railway bridge across the North Crimean Canal in Crimea no longer exists. The first one’s gone,” the SOF wrote in a statement posted on Threads.
The SOF later posted footage that appears to be the attack on the bridge.
“It formed part of a transport corridor used to move cargo, resources, and military supplies in two key directions: from Russia through Crimea to support forces operating in the southern direction,” the SOF said.
The bridge lies on the rail artery that links the Kerch Strait crossing to the rest of the occupied peninsula and onward to Russian forces in the temporarily occupied territories of southern Ukraine, in the region of Kherson and along the coast of the Sea of Azov.
The strike on the bridge will further complicate Moscow’s efforts to move troops, ammunition and fuel by rail, the crucial backbone of Russia’s military logistics.
Notably, Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces revealed that the operation was conducted in coordination with “underground members of the SOF resistance movement.”
Passenger trains halted in Crimea
The Tuesday strike comes after a series of Ukrainian attacks on ground lines of communication and military and energy sites across annexed Crimea.
Moscow-installed occupation authorities subsequently announced the suspension of all passenger train services within Crimea, saying that Kerch — the city at the eastern tip of the peninsula, connected to Russia by the illegally built Kerch bridge — would remain the starting and end point for services to and from the Russian mainland.
With the rail bridge over the North Crimean Canal destroyed, the movement of goods and personnel towards central and western Crimea as well as the land corridor to occupied parts of southern Ukraine is getting much more complicated.
The Tuesday overnight attack on the bridge was part of a broader operation against Russian military and energy infrastructure, according to Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces.
In a separate statement, the SOF said its drones struck 60 Russian targets in temporarily occupied territories, including Crimea, on the night of 23 June.
According to the unit, they included oil storage tanks at the Kerch thermal power station and the “Western Crimea” electrical substation in the village of Karierne.
Ukrainian forces also reported successful hits on several air defence and radar assets,
Taken together, the strikes appear designed not only to disrupt Russia’s ability to supply its forces but also to degrade the air‑defence umbrella and situational awareness that protect key logistics nodes, making future attacks easier to mount.
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