The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reported that strikes by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on bridges in the occupied territory leading to Crimea became part of the Ukrainian counteroffensive strategy to intercept for the implementation of decisive operations.

We will remind, on August 6, the Defense Forces of Ukraine struck two key road bridges connecting the occupied Crimea with part of the Kherson region. These strikes led to the rerouting of traffic by Russian troops from short eastern routes to longer western ones.

The occupying "Ministry of Transport" of Crimea announced repair work on the bridge over Chongar, as a result of which traffic was redirected through the checkpoints "Armyansk" and "Perekop" to the highways M-17 (Armyansk - Oleshki) and T2202 (Armyansk - Nova Kakhovka). Since July 31, the FSB suspended the entry of civilians to the occupied Arabatskaya shirla and stopped traffic on the Henichesko-Arabatskaya shirla highway.

ISW analysts believe that the rerouting could create significant disruptions and delays in logistics, as Russian highways would run along or very close to one 20-kilometer section of the M-17 highway between Ishun and Armenia, and could also be subject to attack by Ukrainian forces.

It should be noted that Russian sources claim that Ukrainian forces used Storm Shadow cruise missiles to carry out both strikes, but this information has not yet been confirmed by ISW.