Larisa Kozova09:28, 23.09.25

The enemy has problems due to the railway in Zaporizhia, which has been out of service for over a month.

The Russian occupiers have resumed the transfer of military cargo across the Crimean Bridge , which, as experts and military personnel have repeatedly reported, is almost not used for this purpose due to damage previously caused by the Ukrainian Defense Forces. This was reported by Petro Andryuschenko, head of the Center for the Study of the Occupation of Ukraine .

He published a photo showing a train moving along the railway part of the bridge.  

“Crimean bridge. We are recording the transfer of military cargo,” he said.

Andryuschenko explains that transportation across the Crimean Bridge began due to communication problems through the temporarily occupied part of the Zaporizhia region.

“Due to the railway line through the occupied Zaporizhia region being out of service for over a month, the Russians are forced to return to military exploitation of the bridge. Which again turns it not just into a “totem”, but a military target,” the head of the center emphasized.

How the Russian Federation protects the Crimean bridge – details

As UNIAN reported, earlier, the spokesman for the Ukrainian Navy, Dmytro Pletenchuk, said that the Russian occupiers were very carefully guarding the Crimean Bridge. At the same time, according to him, the railway line running across the bridge may not withstand heavy equipment, so it is not being transferred to the territory of the temporarily occupied Crimea in this way. This was problematic due to the damage that the bridge had previously suffered.

The spokesman said that “probably civilians” were illegally traveling by car.

According to Pletenchuk, the Crimean Bridge is of critical importance to the Kremlin, not so much infrastructural as ideological. At the same time, he added that the bridge, in addition to its transport branch, also has an energy branch.

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