The structure linking Russia's Krasnodar region with Crimea is a vital supply line for Moscow's forces.
The Russian president opened structure between Crimea and the region of Krasnodar to traffic by driving a truck across it in 2018, as if to cement the Kremlin's claim on the peninsula it had illegally annexed four years earlier.from Putin's pet project last Saturday, after Moscow said Ukrainian forces had fired multiple guided S-200 rockets at the bridge, which has been subject to repeated closures.
"The Kerch Bridge remains a key vulnerability for Russia, and any extended closure would complicate Russia's ability to support operations in the south of Ukraine," Gabrielle Reid, associate director at security intelligence firm S-RM, toldFrom left, Russian President Vladimir Putin and a picture of the damaged Kerch Bridge. Repeated strikes on the bridge, which links occupied Crimea with the Russian mainland, are posing a problem for Putin.
Reid said that the long-term disruption that Ukraine is aiming for will be hard to achieve unless persistent attacks make Russian repair efforts untenable. Also, its distance from the rest of Ukraine, the defenses around it and the amount of planning required to conduct an attack as significant as last October's, meant that Kyiv forcing a permanent closure was unlikely.
However, the bridge still"represents such a vulnerability that Russia will still need to diversify its supply lines where possible, though it has limited options to do so."
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