INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A Russian-held bridge that connects southern Ukraine to the annexed Crimean peninsula has been badly damaged and is "unusable" at present, a
Moscow-installed official said on Friday."It is unusable for movement," said Vladimir Saldo, the Moscow-installed governor of the southern
than we initially thought," Saldo said in televised remarks, adding repairs were underway.On Thursday, Russian officials said that a
Ukrainian strike damaged a bridge that connects Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014, to a part of the Ukrainian region of
Kherson that is partly held by Moscow.Saldo earlier said that Ukraine had used British-supplied Storm Shadow cruise missiles to strike the
occupied parts of Ukraine's south and east with the start of Kyiv's counteroffensive, including strikes far behind enemy lines.
