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Ukraine Plans Pontoon Crossings After Bridge Attacks
Confirmed
In Short: Ukraine's Reconstruction, Infrastructure, and Transport Minister, Mykola Kalashnyk, announced plans to construct pontoon crossings across the Dnipro River in Kyiv following recent Russian drone strikes on key bridges.
Kalashnyk told Suspilny news that the construction of these pontoon crossings could take up to three months and would help maintain traffic flow through the capital, which remains heavily restricted after the bridge attacks.
The Kyiv City Military Administration announced new restrictions on movements over Kyiv's bridges during air raid alerts on Oct. 3.
Kalashnyk emphasized that protecting the existing bridges should remain the priority before constructing alternative crossings.
Mayor Vitali Klitschko said that the bridge's surface and trolleybus overhead power lines have been damaged in the attack.
Kalashnyk outlined a four-step plan: preventing strikes, providing protection, rapid recovery, and making decisions regarding alternative reserve crossings.
He noted that about 600,000 cars cross the left and right banks of the Dnipro daily, and the task is to maintain this throughput.
The minister stressed that the first task is to provide protection from the sky, which is being done in coordination with the military.
Kalashnyk said the locations where construction will begin have been determined accordingly.
The Foreign Ministry has not received any requests or notifications from foreign diplomatic missions regarding plans to relocate.
Ukraine is constructing pontoon crossings across the Dnipro River in Kyiv following Russian strikes on key bridges.
Moscow is putting lives at risk across Europe and must be stopped, according to Moldovan President Maia Sandu.
Over 26,000 bodies and remains have been repatriated to Ukraine, but a significant portion remain unidentified.
Background
Ukraine is constructing pontoon crossings across the Dnipro River in Kyiv following Russian strikes on key bridges.
What's confirmed
- Kalashnyk told Suspilny news that the construction of these pontoon crossings could take up to three months and would help maintain traffic flow through the capital, which remains heavily restricted after the bridge attacks.
- The Kyiv City Military Administration announced new restrictions on movements over Kyiv's bridges during air raid alerts on Oct. 3.
- Kalashnyk emphasized that protecting the existing bridges should remain the priority before constructing alternative crossings.
- Mayor Vitali Klitschko said that the bridge's surface and trolleybus overhead power lines have been damaged in the attack.
- Kalashnyk outlined a four-step plan: preventing strikes, providing protection, rapid recovery, and making decisions regarding alternative reserve crossings.
- He noted that about 600,000 cars cross the left and right banks of the Dnipro daily, and the task is to maintain this throughput.
- The minister stressed that the first task is to provide protection from the sky, which is being done in coordination with the military.
- Kalashnyk said the locations where construction will begin have been determined accordingly.
- The Foreign Ministry has not received any requests or notifications from foreign diplomatic missions regarding plans to relocate.
- Ukraine is constructing pontoon crossings across the Dnipro River in Kyiv following Russian strikes on key bridges.
- Moscow is putting lives at risk across Europe and must be stopped, according to Moldovan President Maia Sandu.
- Over 26,000 bodies and remains have been repatriated to Ukraine, but a significant portion remain unidentified.
What's still developing
- Ukraine said on Wednesday it was destroying Russian pontoon bridges with U.S.-made weapons to defend its incursion into Russia’s Kursk region, as Moscow said its forces had halted Kyiv’s advance there and gained ground in eastern Ukraine.
- A video posted by Ukrainian special forces showed strikes on several pontoon crossings in Kursk region, where Russia has reported that Ukraine has destroyed at least three bridges over the Seym river as it seeks to hold the pocket of captured land.
- “Where do Russian pontoon bridges ‘disappear’ in the Kursk region. Operators … accurately destroy them,” Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces said on Telegram messenger.
- Ukraine smashed through the Russian border in the Kursk region on Aug.
- Kalashnyk also revealed that plans for constructing underground tunnels beneath the Dnipro were being considered, though construction could "cost tens of billions of hryvnias."
- "This work has already begun. A corresponding coordination meeting was held with the president."
- “We halted them and started pushing them back,” Alaudinov told Rossiya state television.
- “The enemy indeed began to transfer some troops… But they have a principal position – not to withdraw troops from the Pokrovsk direction,” he was quoted as saying by Espreso.TV media.