On Bridges In The Ukraine And Much More Poem by Gert Strydom

Both of the two road crossings,
the bridges, into Kherson have been hit
by HIMARS missiles.

The Antonovskiy Bridge over the Dnieper River
has been struck after being hit twice,
on two days by HIMARS missiles.
With the second attack eleven missiles
did hit the bridge.

This bridge that gives access to
the Kherson oblast,
has been damaged and will restrict
Russia's movements in this region.

The bridge is 1.4 kilometre long
and is the main road link to Kherson.
This makes it difficult for the Russians
to support their troops,
which are under repeating attacks
by the Ukraine on the West of the river.

The bridge at Nova Kakovka,
near to the dam,
now has a twenty meter gap,
where the bridge spanned the river
and this bridge had been hit
by HIMARS strikes to keep
the Russians from re-supplying
their troops in Kherson.

There was also missiles fired
to eliminate a 'Repellent-1'
electronic warfare system
and a 'Redut-2US' communication
system at Nova Kakhovka.

Just prior of the destruction
of the bridges by the Ukraine,
Igor Korotchenko,
from the Russian ministry
of defence, said on Russian TV:
'It's time to strike the bridges,
to destroy the bridges
over the Dnipro.'

Along with this Korotchenko said:
'Russia has to make it physically impossible
for Western officials to visit Kyiv
and to install fear in such officials
of making any such visits.'

The pro-Russian correspondent Rybar
says on Telegram: 'that the Ukraine is
completing its preparations
for a real push into the Kherson oblast.'

During May in northern part
of the Kherson oblast
the Ukraine had taken villages,
had hit the rail lines
and had fought to control the roads
that could have been the prelude
for this coming counteroffensive.

The Ukrainian artillery has attacked
military and ammunition at Berislav,
Luubymivka, Snihurivka, Novoznesenske,
Oigino and Zolota Balka,
where the Russians tend to put
munitions close to railway depots
and in towns near to the front.

On Sunday Ukraine's deputy prime minister
Irya Verashchuk,
urged civilians in Kherson
to evacuate as a counterattack
were being planned.

This has resulted on villagers fleeing
Kherson on foot, bike and wheelchair
reports Emily Feng on NPR and that:
'Ukrainian military officials say,
Zelenodolsk will become a key
staging ground for the campaign
to win back control of the port city
of Kherson, the regional capital,
and surrounding villages.
The military manoeuvres
from both sides
have trapped Ukrainian residents
under Russian control
in an unliveable hell-scape.
As they flee, many describe
the desperation of life
in rural war zones:
'A lot of apartments burned.
Schools, kindergartens, everything
is destroyed. No shops.
This is how we lived.
We did not know where
to look for help, ' says Kozlova.'

This is the result of Russia like
a terrorist-state targeting civilians
and the places that they need to use.

The offensive will probably be preceded
by massive artillery shelling
by howitzers on the positions
of the Russian forces on the line of contact.

A Russian cutting edge 48Y6K1 Podlet
radar station has also been
destroyed by a artillery strike,
at Lazurne in the south west of Kherson
which makes amphibious attacks possible
for the Ukraine,
in another simultaneous attack.

There is also a possibility of ATACMS missiles
with a range of 300 kilometres
arriving soon in the Ukraine,
where both the HIMARS and M270
are capable of using these munitions.

Linus Linkevicius,
Lituania's ex-top diplomat said on Twitter:
'We can see the efficiency of HIMARS,
Ukraine also urgently needs ARACMS
which are capable of hitting targets
at a distance of 250 to 300 kilometres.'

On ICTV Vadym Skibitsky,
the Ukrainian spokesman for
military intelligence stressed:
that his army 'would soon have
American MGM-140 ATACMS guided missiles
with a range of 300 kilometres.'

Vadym Skibitsky mentioned that
the Crimea serves as a hub to transport
Russian weapons to Southern Ukraine
and that the Crimean Bridge
and other targets in that region
'to be destroyed for the safety
of our citizens,
our facilities and our Ukraine.'

Speaking of other targets Sevastopol harbour
and the whole of the
Russian Black Sea Fleet
of which missile ships and submarines
have constantly targeted the Ukraine
with Iskandr missiles would also be in range.

On the 17th if July 2022,
on this the Russian security council's
deputy chairman Dimitry Medvedev said:
'In case something happened (in Crimea) ,
simultaneously for all (Ukrainians)
over there,
it will be the day of last judgement"

This is probably again a nuclear threat
where Russia without munitions
near the front
is starting to loose

The US based think tank:
The institute for the study of war,
(ISW) says:
'Russian president Vladimir Putin
could use nuclear threats to deter
a counteroffensive by the Ukraine
into the annexed regions of Kherson,
Zaporizhua, Donetsk and Luhansk
...If the Ukraine counteroffensive
is to continue.'

Whenever Russia looses badly
Putin and his cronies threaten
with nuclear holocaust,
the extinction of all of humanity
and then on the other hand
they try to act as if
they are trying to act for the good
of mankind,
while it is clear that pure evil,
is the thing that drives them.

This brings a person to think of
how it will be on God's day of
last judgement for Putin, Medvedev
and the like doing the bidding
of totalitarian Russia.
© Gert Strydom