Drone attacks targeting ports come after Moscow refuses to extend Black Sea grain deal; road traffic partially restored on key bridge damaged by explosion
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Monday’s attack on the Kerch Bridge and Moscow’s continued promotion of Crimea as a tourist destination will have “significant impacts” on Russian logistics in southern Ukraine amid the Ukrainian counteroffensive, the Institute for the Study of War has said in its latest assessment of the conflict.
The bridge is along one of only two ground links to Russia’s southern force grouping but Moscow has urged Russian civilians “to drive through and to a warzone rather than advising them to avoid it as a responsible government would”, the US-based thinktank said.
Many of Popov’s complaints indicated that the 58th Combined Arms Army, and likely other Russian formations deployed in Zaporizhia Oblast, suffer from supply shortages that will further worsen if tourist and other civilian traffic slow down logistics routes supporting Russian forces in southern Ukraine.
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