Ukraine attacks Russian supply lines, prepares for major counterattack
Ukrainian forces stormed a bridge in the Russian-controlled Black Sea city of Kherson, targeting Moscow’s supply route as Kiev prepared for a major counteroffensive in the region, officials said on July 23.
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Artillery forces attack Russian military positions in the Donetsk region of the eastern Donbass region on July 18. Photo: New York Times |
Serhiy Khlan, an adviser to the Kherson governor, said the attack targeted the Daryivskyi bridge over the Ingulets River, which is used to supply Russian troops. The move comes days after a key bridge over the nearby Dnieper River was attacked.
“Each bridge is a logistical weak point and our forces are destroying enemy systems. This is not the liberation of Kherson, but a serious preparation for the implementation of this strategy,” Serhiy Khlan wrote on his personal Facebook page.
On the same day, Russia's TASS news agency quoted an official from the Russian-established government in Kherson as saying that the Daryivskyi bridge was hit by seven missiles from a high-mobility artillery rocket system (HIMARS) supplied by the West, but was still operational.
Ukraine has used long-range weapons provided by the West to attack Russian supply lines and ammunition depots in an attempt to turn the tide of the war and prepare for a counteroffensive in the Kherson region. Russia has seized territory in southern and eastern Ukraine since launching its offensive on February 24./.
