Russia's war in Ukraine
From CNN’s Olga Voitovych in Kyiv and Jo Shelley in London
Four missiles were fired at the Chonhar road bridge Thursday morning, with one hitting the structure, a representative of Russia’s Investigative Committee said in comments reported by Russian state news agency RIA.
"According to preliminary data, four incomings of unidentified missiles were recorded. During the inspection of the scene elements of these missiles were seized, one of which has a marking on its nameplate indicating that this missile was made in France,” RIA cited the unnamed representative as saying.
The representative said that one of the four missiles hit the road bridge.
Earlier, the Moscow-installed head of the occupied Kherson region, Vladimir Saldo, said the bridge could have been hit by “Storm Shadow” missiles. The Storm Shadow is a long-range cruise missile with stealth capabilities, jointly developed by the UK and France.
A vital link: The Chonhar (‘Chongar’ in Russian) bridge connects the Russian-held parts of Ukraine’s southern Kherson region with the Crimean peninsula, which Russia illegally annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
Traffic between Crimea and occupied Kherson has been “temporarily rerouted” to two crossing points west of Chonhar – Armyansk and Perekop – Crimea’s transport minister, Nikolai Lukashenko, said on Telegram.
Asked about the strike on the Chonhar bridge, Andrii Yusov, a representative of Ukraine’s defense intelligence, told state television: “The work is ongoing and will continue – the work of the security and defense forces, resistance movement, the local population, who are waiting for the return of the Ukrainian legitimate authorities to these territories.”
Source: CNN
