knocked out three pontoon bridges that russians built on the donesquetsk river, what s t importance? this river flows through the middle of the area, the donetsk river, the russians have been trying for weeks to get across the river, and they continue to be thwarted by the active defense being executed by the ukrainians. the three pontoon bridges were knocked out here. as soon as they put those bridges up and the russians got forces across the river, they knocked out the bridges. now you ve got a lot of russians that are potentially trapped against the banks of that river. also up here in izyum area, we know they have been trying to cross the river for weeks as well. what happened was the ukrainians conducted such a successful counter offensive in this area that the russians have had to redeploy forces back in here to