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KYIV, Ukraine (The JK Union)-- Ukrainian forces have struck and seriously damaged a bridge that is key for supplying Russian troops in southern Ukraine, an official said Wednesday.
The 1.4-kilometre bridge is the main crossing across the Dnieper River in the Kherson area, and if it's made unusable it would be hard for the Russian military to keep supplying its forces in the area in the middle of repeated Ukrainian attacks. Early in the war, Russian troops quickly overran the Kherson area just north of the Crimean Peninsula that Russia added to the end in 2014. The British Defense Ministry said Wednesday that the bridge in Kherson was likely still usable after the Ukrainian strikes, but it is a «key weakness for Russian Forces». The Ukrainian attacks on the bridge in Kherson come as the majority of the Russian forces are stuck in the fighting in Ukraine's eastern industrial of Donbas where they have made slow gains while facing strong Ukrainian resistance.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu inspected the troops in the east, ordering them to act more aggressively to down Ukrainian drones and prevent Ukraine's army from shelling the areas that have been taken by Russian forces. Russia's ground advance has slowed, in part because Ukraine is using more effective U. Ukrainian voiced hope that Kyiv could drain the Russian military of useful things/valuable supplies in the fight for Donbas and then launch a counteroffensive to reclaim control of the Kherson area and parts of the Zaporizhzhia area that the Russians grabbed and took control of early in the war. With indications that Ukraine is planning attacks to retake occupied areas, the Russian military lately has targeted the Black Sea port of Odesa and parts of southern Ukraine where its troops took/taken by force cities earlier in the war. Following months of local announcements about a Russian public vote, White House national security spokesman John Kirby said Tuesday that U. intelligence has collected a «big/enough» new event or object that Russia is looking formally to add to the end added/more Ukraine and could hold a «sham» public vote as soon as September.
Mykola Zavodovskyi, right, and Tetiana Zavodovska, hurt from a rocket attack that hit a five-story building, receive treatment at a hospital, in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, July 19, 2022. Â Given by Associated Press Mykola Zavodovskyi, right, and Tetiana Zavodovska, hurt from a rocket attack that hit a five-story building, receive treatment at a hospital, in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, July 19, 2022. «Russia is preparing to add to the end Ukrainian that it controls in direct violation of Ukraine's independent power,» Kirby said in Washington. Kirby also said the White House is expected to announce more military aid for Ukraine later this week.
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The aid is expected to include more HIMARS systems, a critical weapon Ukrainian forces have been using with success in their fight against Russian troops. While pressing their offensive in the Donbas, Russian forces also beat wide areas in the east and in other places across Ukraine with strikes and gun-related blasts. Ukraine's presidential office said that at least 13 people not in the military were killed and a further 40 wounded by the Russian shelling across the country. «These strikes targeting peaceful people,,, not in the military make no sense, but the Russian army is continuing this for no reason/unconscious shelling,» Kharkiv Gov.