Two spans of Antonovka bridge across Dnieper ruined — emergency services

Two spans of the Antonovka bridge, in the Kherson Region, have been destroyed, a spokesman for the region’s emergency services told TASS.

"Two spans of the bridge have been destroyed," the source said in reply to a corresponding question.

Earlier, the spokesman for the region’s military-civilian administration, Sergey Moroz, said on the Rossiya-24 round-the-clock TV news channel, that there had been plans to blow up bridges in the Kherson Region in order to impede attempts (should there be any) by Ukraine’s armed forces to cross the Dnieper to the left bank.

On Friday, the city’s mayor Alexander Kobets, while replying to a newscaster’s remark about footage of the Antonovka bridge showing two damaged sections that had appeared on social networks, said that the local authorities were not responsible for such matters, because "all such issues are the prerogative of the military."