When I sat down to begin contemplating Echoes of War, I thought very carefully about what I would be hearing. But the strategic accuracy of Ukraine’s strikes on its key infrastructure suggest – amid the slow grind of trench warfare and the incremental seizure of tiny occupied villages – there may be a wider and more potent strategy again at work.Echoes of War: The Music of Blizzard Entertainment :: Review by ReskĮchoes of War: The Music of Blizzard EntertainmentĮMIN-00001 (Legendary Edition) EMIN-00002 (Standard Edition) But be in no doubt, a peninsula is a tough thing to supply in wartime.ĭoubtless, Russia has learned from its significant setbacks. It will be harder to push Russia into a retreat around Crimea, because of its emotional resonance. Moscow fled large swathes of Kharkiv, despite it being directly connected to Russia’s borders they simply could not continue to provide their forces the ammunition and reserves they needed. Occupying forces fled Kherson when they became cut off. Both Kherson and Kharkiv – the latter more specifically – relied on hitting the railways that, remarkably in 2023, still form the bulk of Moscow’s rickety – and by now, in this war, legendarily poor – supply chains. This is in keeping with Ukraine’s tactics in their past two pushes. They are likely waiting to impair supply lines to the Russian front lines in Zaporizhzhia at the most damaging time, hoping the sudden loss of supplies, or a panicked bid to restore them, will sap Russian defensive strength at a key moment. It is reasonable to presume these targets have been known to the Ukrainians for some time, and the decision to hit them both in the past week is not an accident. He added the blast showed the area was easily within reach of NATO-supplied missiles and that Russian air defences were inadequate. But Kyiv has many cards left to playĪlexei Zhivoff, a Russian military blogger, said Thursday the Chonhar bridge was more a “land corridor”, and carried 70% of the military and civilian traffic to and from Crimea. Ukraine's counteroffensive has been brutal and slow. Wojciech Grzedzinski/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Ukrainian soldiers shoot rounds into Russian positions outside Bakhmut, on June 19, 2023. Blown bridges have a history of impacting both Russian morale and presence. On Sunday, a blast hit what seemed to be a Russian ammunition depot in Rykove, near Chonhar. And also, less directly, it echoes the damage done last year to the Kerch Strait bridge, which also temporarily disrupted traffic on the only southern supply artery to the peninsula from the Russian mainland. But it echoes two earlier events: the damage to the Antonovsky Bridge from Kherson City that eventually presaged Russia’s orderly withdrawal from the right side of the banks of the Dnipro River. They will have to use another, longer route, he added, to the West through Armyansk and Perekop, closer to Ukrainian positions.Īs a singular event, Saldo is correct to say the one attack decides nothing. “It won’t decide any results of the special operation”, Saldo adds, before admitting it will make some food and other deliveries a little harder. In the video, Vladimir Saldo, the Russian installed governor of occupied Kherson region, walks around the wreckage, and bemoans “another pointless action” assisted, he says, by the London-supplied Storm Shadow missile. Video released from the scene by Russian officials shows a significant hole in the road bridge and apparent damage to the neighbouring rail track, caused, Russian investigators later said, by four missiles. The Chonhar bridges are both rail and road crossings, and head from the northeast of occupied Crimea to Ukraine’s main target in this counteroffensive: occupied Zaporizhzhia region. Almost as if to answer Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s statement the counteroffensive is “slower” than some might have imagined, a pinpoint strike hit a key pair of bridges for Russia’s occupation.
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