[ColonelCassad] A natural barrier in Ukraine is the Dnieper River, which divides the country into 2 parts. The main hostilities (with the exception of the Nikolaev-Kherson front) take place on the territory of eastern Ukraine (left-bank).
Accordingly, the most active grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is located on the left bank, and the transport infrastructure (bridges) laid across the Dnieper River is used to supply it.
To date, the Dnieper River is crossed by 25 bridges:
▪️ 9 road bridges (2 of which are also used as a metro bridge);
▪️ 6 bridges are affiliated with hydroelectric power plants (some bridges have railway tracks);
▪️ 4 railway bridges;
▪️ 7 combined bridges (road and rail);
▪️ 1 pedestrian bridge.
Of these, only three are controlled by the RF Armed Forces.
Transport routes passing through the hydroelectric power station must be disabled by strikes on crossings above the locks where necessary (a bridge departs from the Dnieper hydroelectric power station, which simply needs to be destroyed).
Although the Podolsko-Voskresensky bridge in Kyiv has not been completed yet, the photographs show that its technical condition makes it possible to transport equipment and personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine across it.
A separate question about the pedestrian bridge in Kyiv: it is definitely impossible to transport equipment through it, only personnel. You can consider the expediency of preserving it for the needs of the inhabitants of Kyiv. Or not think and also destroy.
It is necessary to take the most responsible approach to protecting the bridges that are controlled by the RF Armed Forces: the destruction of these bridges will actually cut off supplies to our group of troops on the right bank of the Dnieper and create threats to the capture of Kherson. And it takes time to build pontoon crossings.
▪️Vehicle bridges:
➖Metromost - 50.442501, 30.563779
➖Most line T0412 - 48.534451, 34.595396
➖Most Patton - 50.426439, 30.579051
➖Podolsko Resurrection bridge - 50.472893, 30.534585
➖Severny Bridge - 50.490727, 30.535890
➖Tsentralny Bridge - 48.475458, 35.055637
➖Yuzhny bridge (Dnepropetrovsk) - 48.410023, 35.095007 ➖South
bridge (Kiev) - 50.395044, 30.587853
▪️Railway bridges:
➖Merefo-Kherson Bridge - 48.467118, 35.082528
➖Petrovsky w / Railroad bridge - 50.483749, 30.541933
▪️Mosty HPP:
➖Dneprovskaya GES - 47.870910, 35.082297
➖Kanevskaya GES - 49.762001, 31.465413
➖Kievskaya GES - 50.589581, 30.506533
➖Kremenchugskaya GES - 49.073305, 33.250628
➖Srednedneprovskaya GES - 48.546577, 34.540022
▪️Peshehodnye bridges:
➖Parkovy bridge - 50.456628, 30.534055
▪️Sovmeschennye bridges:
➖Amursky bridge - 48.485541, 35.025935
➖Vantovy bridge - 47.842485, 35.085464
➖Darnitsky bridge - 50.415142, 30.583059
➖Kaydaksky bridge - 48.497858, 34.965484
➖Kryukovskiy bridge — 49.051567, 33.424058
➖Preobrazhensky Bridge - 47.845719, 35.084378 (hit on April 21, technical condition unknown.
This is a big nut for the Russians to crack, so I am not so certain they can do it. Destroying bridges only inconveniences a modern army. Both sides have plenty of bridging elements at their disposal.
A good strategy in my personal opinion would have been for the Russian air assault brigades to capture all the river crossings. But, alas, not enough forces, and too many crossings.