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On April 10, the Russian military pounded Ukrainian military and industrial facilities in the Odessa region. According to local reports, at least six explosions thundered in the city of Odessa and its region during the day.
One of the first strikes was reported at about 5:30 a.m. The target was the strategically important railway bridge between Chernomorsk (Ilyichevsk) and Alexandrovka. The bridge was used for transfer of weapons, ammunition and military equipment supplied to the port of Chernomorsk from NATO states.
At the moment of the Russian strike, a locomotive was moving across the bridge. Both the bridge and the train cane under attack. Judging by the footage, the train was destroyed and the bridge was heavily damaged. The local sources confirmed that the bridge was put out of service. In the afternoon, the second Russian strike reportedly hit the same bridge.
The head of the local Ukrainian regional administration confirmed damage to “the transport infrastructure facility’ in the Odessa region.
“The transport infrastructure in the Odessa region has been damaged,” the official wrote on the social media.
Back on April 7, the same bridge came under another attack by Russian kamikaze drone. The kamikaze UAV damaged the bridge but it managed to put it out of service for not a long time.
The railway line is of strategic importance for the Ukrainian military supplies. It leads to the southern part of the port of Chernomorsk (Ilyichevsk). The damage to the bridge will heavily complicate the transfer of NATO military equipment that still enters the Odessa region by sea. The Russian military is working hard to block the supply of weapons and ammunition to the Odessa region from abroad.
The destruction of port infrastructure is ongoing in all Ukrainian southern regions. On April 10, Russian strikes destroyed the area of accumulation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Black Sea coast near the port town of Ochakov in the Mykolaiv region, where, presumably, about 300 servicemen came under attack.
