Ukrainian forces struck several bridges linking occupied Kherson Oblast and Crimea on June 11, tightening pressure on one of Russia’s most important supply corridors in Novorossiya. Vladimir Saldo said the overnight attacks hit a bridge over the North Crimean Canal near occupied Preobrazhenka and Myrne, the Perekop-Armyansk Road Bridge and the Stavky Road Bridge.
The timing matters because the crossings are part of the road network Russia has relied on to move men, fuel and ammunition into occupied Crimea, and the latest strikes came after earlier damage already forced traffic changes at Chonhar. A Ukrainian regiment commander operating in the Kherson direction said the Armyansk route was also hit the same day, and that roughly 50 Russian military cargo vehicles carrying fuel and ammunition were damaged or destroyed.
Saldo said the strikes caused unspecified damage, but the details around the route show how much more than a single bridge is at stake. The Stavky, Myrne and Armyansk bridges run over the North Crimean Canal and along the M-17 Armyansk-Oleshky highway, while geolocated and satellite imagery published on June 10 showed the aftermath of Ukrainian strikes on two bridges south of Henichesk and near Armyansk. A Russian monitoring Telegram channel said the strikes on the nights of June 7 to 8, June 9 and June 10 to 11 had temporarily disabled all land routes to occupied Crimea from occupied Kherson Oblast.
That account also said Chonhar Bridge was seriously damaged, and Saldo temporarily closed traffic via the crossing on June 9 after the strike. The commander said Russian forces shifted logistics toward the Armyansk route after the earlier attacks, which helps explain why that corridor became a target as well. Russian occupation authorities are also struggling to address worsening gasoline shortages in occupied Sevastopol, adding pressure to a supply system that Ukraine is now striking in layers.
Ukraine’s mid-range campaign against Russian ground lines of communication across occupied southern Ukraine is widening, and the immediate question is no longer whether the routes are under strain but how long Moscow can keep moving supplies through them. The source does not say when the damaged bridges will be repaired or whether the land routes into occupied Crimea will reopen in full.
