Ukraine Targets Key Bridge as It Prepares Counteroffensive in South – WSJ

KYIV, Ukraine Ukraine struck for the second day in a row the strategic bridge linking Russian-occupied Kherson with other Russian-held areas in southern Ukraine, part of preparations for a counteroffensive there.

Kherson is the only Ukrainian regional capital that Moscow captured in five months of fighting, and the looming battle there would determine whether Ukraine is able to claw back significant territories after its recent setbacks in the eastern Donbas area.

Ukrainian precision strikes on the Antonivsky bridge and near the Kakhovka dam over the Dnipro river, the only crossings that allow the resupply of the Russian forces in Kherson city and other areas on the western side of the river, have been made possible by recent deliveries of U.S. Himars rocket systems.

As a result of Wednesday s strikes, truck traffic on the Antonivsky bridge will be suspended while repair works are carried out, said Vladimir Saldo, the Russian-appointed head of the Kherson regional administration.

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