Consequences of the shelling of the Antonovsky bridge in Kherson. Video frameKHERSON, Aug. 22Ukrainian troops, shelling the Antonovsky bridge near Kherson, are hitting the same place, one of the workers injured during today's shelling told RIA Novosti. gravity, the deputy head of the administration of the Kherson region Kirill Stremousov told RIA Novosti earlier. According to him, the bridge itself was damaged as a result of a missile strike, it did not collapse, its condition is being assessed. «They were working … And there was cotton, we thought maybe the plywood had fallen … And then dust, chips flew to us … We jumped out into the street , looked … Something was burning there … They (Ukrainian troops — ed.) are hitting it for the third or fourth time, right in the same holes … «, one of the injured workers said. Another worker told the agency correspondent that when he and his colleagues after a missile attack, they ran out, then they saw the military. “They ran to us, they said: ‘Go down, they will bandage you there.’ Then an ambulance came and took us away,” he recalls. According to him, earlier the Ukrainian army did not strike the bridge during the day, only at night. The man said that in the place where the Ukrainian troops struck, there were no Russian soldiers, only workers who were engaged in the restoration of the bridge. During the special operation, the Russian military took control of the Kherson region and the Azov part of the Zaporozhye region, occupying such large cities as Kherson , Melitopol and Berdyansk, and cutting off Ukraine from the Sea of Azov. New administrations have been formed in both regions, Russian TV channels and radio stations are broadcasting, trade and transport links with Crimea are being restored. The regions announced plans to become part of Russia. In addition, eight years later, the North Crimean Canal was unblocked, and water flows back to the peninsula.
