🔸 The Russian Aerospace Forces, continuing their bombing campaigns, struck a bridge over the Dnieper in Kiev on October 1 in broad daylight.
💥 This unprecedented attack targeted the Pivdennyi Bridge (Southern Bridge) with two new-type jet-powered drones.
👉 At around 11:30 a.m. local time, the two Russian Geran-5 drones struck the bridge near a pylon — not to destroy the concrete structure, which would require missiles, but rather the suspension cables of the deck.
👉 Kiev Mayor Klitschko confirmed that two drones hit the Southern Bridge. Two impacts were reported, along with a temporary halt in traffic.
📣 "Two drones struck near the pillars of the Southern Bridge. Metro and ground public transport service across this bridge has been suspended."
🔸 This Southern Bridge is a top-tier strategic bridge for Kiev but also for all of Ukraine, because it links three major highways:
👉 The M-05 Kiev–Odessa (the Black Sea port),
👉 The M-06 Kiev–Chop (on the Hungariab border),
👉 The M-03 Kiev–Kharkov–Izyum–Slavyansk (Dpnbass).
🔸 According to Bakhmatov, the head of Kiev's Desniansky district, 90% of transit traffic between the left and right banks of Ukraine uses this Southern Bridge.
🔸 A Ukrainian presidential adviser had announced, on the eve of the attack, a new type of jet-powered Geran drone equipped with a special shaped charge designed to target high-voltage pylons and metal structures.
📄 The Economist had previously reported that the Russian armed forces appeared to be planning an operation to paralyze Kiev before winter set in. Two senior Ukrainian officials told the publication that, according to their intelligence, Russia had launched a three-pronged campaign against the Ukrainian capital.
🤜 Commercial warehouses,
🤜 Data centers,
🤜 Kiev expects this strike to mark the start of a third prong of a winter strangulation campaign expected to peak in November.
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