Kyiv continues the operation to isolate occupied Crimea. Last night, Ukraine struck a railway bridge feeding Russian forces in the peninsula, the General Staff said, while monitors reported drones set a power plant in western Crimea on fire — strikes the country's navy casts as stages of a years-long plan to isolate the territory. The targets stretched from the occupied peninsula to an ammunition depot in Donetsk Oblast. A navy spokesman said the whole effort points to one place: the Kerch Strait crossing.
A bridge near İçki, a depot in the Donbas
The Defense Forces of Ukraine hit a railway bridge near İçki in occupied Crimea, the General Staff said. Russian forces used the crossing to move troops and supplies across the peninsula. The same statement reported a strike on an enemy ammunition depot near Amvrosiivka in Donetsk Oblast. Results of both hits were still being assessed.
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NASA's FIRMS satellite fire data points to the Bulhanak River bridge as the one that burned. The crossing is a separate target from the rail bridge over the North Crimean Canal near Rozdolne, which Ukraine's special forces destroyed earlier.
The General Staff post also confirmed strikes on Russian oil refineries near Yaroslavl and at Slavyansk-na-Kubani.
Russia’s refinery feeding occupied Crimea is burning after an overnight Ukrainian strike
A power plant on fire near Saky
Overnight, drones attacked the Sakska thermal power plant near the western Crimean town of Saky, starting a fire, Militarnyi reported. Locals heard 16 explosions in the area before the flames rose, the monitoring channel Krymsky Veter said. NASA's FIRMS satellite system caught the blaze at around 03:13.
The Sakska plant is one of the key energy sites in western Crimea, with an output of 149.4 megawatts.
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"It all leads to the Crimean Bridge"
Navy spokesman Dmytro Pletenchuk said the strikes on Russian logistics are part of a multi-stage operation built over years, not months. He told a national broadcast that the fuel shortages and gas-station queues on the peninsula are not the goal in themselves.
"What we are observing is the next stage of a multi-step operation. Where someone might see emotion — to cut something off here and now — no. This was preceded by a whole set of measures, and it lasted not even months, but years," he said.
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He traced the sequence from the start. First, Ukraine cut the naval logistics, the large landing ships. Then came the large railway ferries that formed the backbone of Crimea's sea supply, and after them the ordinary ferries that could serve the same role. Russian air defenses were destroyed in parallel, and Ukrainian forces struck targets in the so-called land corridor at the same time.
"It all essentially comes down to the so-called Crimean Bridge," Pletenchuk noted, calling the plan's execution "fairly successful."
The Kerch Strait bridge is the artery Russia built after seizing Crimea and uses to move fuel, ammunition, and troops onto the peninsula and onward to its forces across Ukraine's south.
