Ukraine's plans for Crimea and the Kerch Bridge become known

The Ukrainian Defense Forces have a plan to de-occupy Crimea and destroy the Kerch Bridge.

Andriy Yusov, a representative of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine, told this on KIEV24 TV channel.

He emphasized that the Defense Forces have a plan for both the de-occupation of Ukrainian lands and the peninsula and the destruction of the Crimean bridge.

"We will not give announcements, as we did in the past when we did it effectively," Yusov said.

He also did not name the time when this would happen. According to him, Crimea is an important territory for the occupiers in terms of military logistics and supplies. They use the peninsula as a military base.

"We would all like to look at the clock and say that the Crimean bridge will live for another 15 minutes. The reality is more complicated," the intelligence official said.

Earlier it was reported that the occupiers had started transporting fuel across the Kerch bridge again. Thus, it is noted that footage from June 8 shows that Russia has begun to transport fuel across the Kerch Strait via a railway bridge. Earlier, the spokesman for the Southern Operational Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Dmytro Pletenchuk, said that the Russian authorities have not been transporting fuel through the Kerch Strait since March 2024 due to the threat of a Ukrainian strike on the bridge during the passage of fuel transport, which could catch fire and possibly destroy the bridge. The Independent also wrote that images taken by satellite specialists Maxar, which were analyzed by Molfar and sent to The Independent, show that almost no military freight trains have been running on the bridge's rail line for three months. During that period, only one Russian freight train was seen crossing the bridge on February 29, carrying about 55 railroad cars of fuel.

It was also said that the railroad that the Russian occupiers are building on the temporarily occupied territory of southern Ukraine to Crimea is an important target for the Ukrainian military. But if Russia starts using the Kerch bridge for military purposes again, a third attack on it is "inevitable."