Armed Forces of Ukraine struck a road bridge over the occupied Henichesk Strait overnight on June 20, Major Robert “Magyar” Brovdi said. The Ukrainian General Staff and Brovdi reported the hit on a route Ukrainian military officials say Russian forces use to move supplies from occupied Crimea to troops in southern Ukraine.
Henichesk Strait bridge
Brovdi’s report came after a Ukrainian open-source intelligence project said satellite images collected on June 19 showed previous strikes had already left the Henichesk bridge with a single operational lane and blocked truck movement. That leaves Russian forces with less room to shift supplies across a bridge that sits on one of the routes linking occupied Crimea to occupied Kherson Oblast.
The same project said previous Ukrainian strikes on the Chonhar bridge left only a single lane for light vehicles, while military equipment and trucks moved by nearby pontoons. The account points to a campaign aimed at transport links rather than one bridge alone, with the effect spread across crossings used for Russian ground lines of communication.
North Crimea Channel damage
A Ukrainian regiment published footage on June 20 showing strikes on a road bridge across the North Crimea Channel near occupied Voinka, Crimea, on June 17. The regiment said the blows damaged the bridge’s support columns and roadway, and described that crossing as one of the few Russian forces can still use to cross the drained North Crimean Canal.
That bridge, the Henichesk route, and the crossings near Armyansk all sit inside the same transport system. The Ukrainian open-source intelligence project assessed that a road bridge over the North Crimea Canal near Armyansk was critically damaged, then said Russian officials built a new crossing over the drained canal near Armyansk.
Armyansk, Chaplynka, Skadovsk
Brovdi also reported on June 20 that Ukrainian forces struck unspecified Russian logistics transports near Armyansk and Chaplynka, a roadstead tug near Skadovsk, and a fuel tanker near Chaplynka. Ukrainian strikes on transport and railway infrastructure are already disrupting Russian ground lines of communication and worsening Russian logistics on the left bank of occupied Kherson Oblast and Crimea.
The immediate question is how long the Henichesk Strait bridge stays usable after the overnight strike. Brovdi’s account, the satellite assessment, and the June 17 bridge footage all point in the same direction: Russian forces still have some bridges, pontoons, and a new crossing over the drained canal, but the routes they rely on are being narrowed one by one.
