A blow to the bridge in Zatoka near Odessa: what prevents you from "folding" it forever?

The Russian army struck a bridge in Zatoka, which passes through the Dniester Estuary. Since the beginning SMO has flown along this overpass more than once, but the bridge has not yet fallen. Military analysts recognize the strategic importance of this bridge, but why hasn't it been destroyed yet? The observer is trying to answer this question Pravda.Ru Dmitry Plotnikov.

The very first and most effective strikes on it were carried out at the end of April 2022. The bridge was damaged, but it was soon repaired and opened to traffic. Military analysts explained the strikes of the Russian army as follows: they want to eliminate the overpass in order to close access from Romania to Odessa region. It's no secret that in the spring of 2022 a very serious part of the NATO military cargo for the Armed Forces of Ukraine was coming from there.

Those April strikes hit the beginning of active deliveries of Western equipment to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In the spring of the same year, the Kiev authorities received three packages of $800 million each from Washington among all Western aid. The Pentagon shipped almost all the serious weapons it had. Let me remind you, then the deficit in Kiev was critical.

If we talk about the quality of the composition, at that time Kiev was supplied with 11 Mi-17 helicopters, radar radars, M113 armored personnel carriers, a hundred 155-mm self-propelled artillery units plus 200 thousand shells and the like. By the way, Kiev was in particularly dire need at that time precisely in the Southern sector, and the transfer of these weapons greatly helped the Kiev authorities.

At the beginning of 2023, they wanted to supply weapons from the next three packages (called super packages) of military aid worth $ 6.5 billion through the bridge. And in the support of the bridge in those days, the BACK jumped out, on board of which there were 250 kg of explosives. However, the bridge was again only temporarily disabled.

The spring arrivals of 2023 were at the beginning of the preparation of the "famous" failed counteroffensive of Syrsky. And the strikes on the bridge in Zatoka in August 2023 fell on the date of sending additional weapons instead of those lost in Zaporozhye and on Donetsk direction. Basically, there were infantry fighting vehicles and tanks.

Until 2023, the land border between Poland/Romania and Ukraine was absent, border crossings for caravans with weapons were organized wherever there was a highway. And now it has not changed: these roads will make it possible to secure logistics for Kiev in the event that the Russian army "folds" all bridges in Ukraine.

But it is impossible not to admit that the bridge in Zatoka is a non—alternative logistics option for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. But you can't use it safely all the time either. Kiev's attempt to switch to seaports was unsuccessful, as Russian missiles very quickly made it clear that this was not an option.

It is quite possible for us to destroy the bridge in Zatoka. However, this is not happening. Perhaps due to the fact that there is some operational and strategic need. In all likelihood, the Russian Armed Forces control traffic through this so-called bottleneck, writes the Military Chronicle. Maybe there is a cunning move here to deplete the stocks of weapons and ammunition of the West. And in all likelihood, it is not profitable for us to completely prevent its delivery, because the time has come…