Russian troops have been using pontoon bridges at the Chonhar and Henichesk checkpoints on the administrative border between Ukraine's south and occupied Crimea since the Ukrainian Armed Forces' precision strikes on the permanent bridges in early August.
As of mid-August, the use of pontoon bridges indicate that Russian forces occupying Crimea and Kherson Oblast face logistical issues, weeks after Ukrainian attacks on the bridges that link the two occupied regions, the U.K. Defense Ministry said on Aug. 23.
Ivan Sestrivatovsky, a soldier who was stationed at the border with Crimea on February 24, 2022, said that attempts to blow up key bridges at Chonhar were thwarted by either Russian sabotage groups or damaged detonation wires.
army houses go towards old soviet models and even if they do learn to use them, the repair vehicles and the pontoon bridges for going over rivers for example are geared towards the old system rather than new ones. dr patrick bury is a defence and security expert at the university of bath and former nato analyst he expects the tanks to be in use by the end of march. i think essentially you are going to see a lot of people moving quite quickly now to train up. the leopard apparently, and i don t have personal experience of this, is one of the simpler tanks to train up on and the abrams is a bit more complex, for example. the challenger is probably in the middle of those. most of the ukrainian tanks use just three crew members, in fact nearly all of them, as far as i m aware, whereas all these tanks need four,
last night and into early hours this morning you could hear outgoing fire towards the russian forces. it s unclear what form the battle may take around here. it s a strategic river. i don t think there s any likelihood in the near future the russian forces will come across. we ve seen some of them quite literally running across dam and pontoon bridges to get away from this side of the river. for the residents of this city, the ukrainian government now in charge working on restoring electricity, restoring water, restoring basic services. there was even a glimmer a few moments ago of possibly and i say possibly, it s hard to tell of a 3g phone service coming back. the city s been cut off without internet. there is a curfew in place now for people here from 5 p.m. in the evening until 8 a.m. in the morning. so that s a long curfew. there is, of course, concerns