Ukraine has hit the bridge twice before.
Images released Wednesday by the Russian-installed puppet government in Kherson showed blast holes in the middle of the road on the Antonovsky Bridge with bars sticking out at odd angles.
The destruction of the bridge over the Dnipro River threatens potential Russian supplies and reinforcements from the rest of the Kherson region and the heavily militarized Crimean peninsula that Russia used as a launching pad for the invasion.
“The Antonovsky Bridge has been hit a few times, we have stopped traffic,” said Kirill Stremousov, an administration official.
But posing for cameras on the bridge, he tried to calm fears of a blockade, saying the attack would have no effect on “hostilities” and that Russian forces had built pontoon bridges to bring in supplies. Russia has also organized ferry crossings to resupply its troops while the bridge is unusable.
But Russian military bloggers said the ongoing attacks were causing major problems for Moscow’s military.
“First of all, the consequences of the bombing of the bridge have a cumulative effect, that is, each subsequent attack does more damage than the previous one, not only because of the increase in the number of hits but also because of an increasing weakening of the structure of cloth,” wrote Voennyi Osvedomitel.
“Secondly, alternatives in the form of pontoons and ferries are vulnerable to enemy fire many times more than a large bridge, just one MLRS missile will be enough to disable them.”