With these three tools, Ukraine is currently making a big impact

Destroyed bridges

The shelling on the central supply routes in Cherson, which has been going on for weeks, is severely weakening the Russians – and is an example of how effective Kiev’s warfare is.

(Photo: dpa/Dmytro Smolienko)

Berlin The Ukrainians are making further progress in the counter-offensive in the south of the country by massively disrupting Russian supply routes. Kiev’s troops had partially made the Antonivka Bridge in Cherson and the dam at Nowa Kakhovka over the Dnieper River, which runs through the region, impassable. Moscow’s army then made do with ferries and built makeshift floating bridges for military vehicles across the Dnieper and the Inhulets tributary. But meanwhile, the reports
the British Ministry of Defense now also destroyed all the pontoon bridges there.

It is not known whether the Ukrainians used Himar’s US multiple rocket launchers again, as they did recently in the village of Darjivka. One thing is clear: the shelling that has been going on for weeks on the central supply routes in Cherson is severely weakening the Russians – and is an example of how effective Kiev’s warfare is. In the David-versus-Goliath war, Kyiv is using a kind of slingshot strategy: a big impact is to be achieved with limited resources. Three elements are central here.

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