“Russia is trying to restore structures near the Kerch bridge that were damaged by storms – The Russian Navy is trying to restore protective structures near the Kerch bridge that were damaged by storms. The occupiers strengthened the facility with echeloned air defense systems and increased the number of fuel tankers for fuel supply.”, — write on: unn.ua
Dmytro Pletenchuk, spokesman for the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, said this on the air of the telethon UNN.
They try to use every opportunity to renew these buildings. Of course, the period of storms is quite long in the Black Sea, in the Kerch Strait the weather is also quite stormy. In this sense, it makes adjustments to the plans of the Russian occupiers, but of course they are taking maximum measures to protect this structure
The Russians maximally saturated the Kerch Bridge with echeloned air defense systems.
So far, there is no tendency to decrease their activity. You can see that they saturated this facility with echeloned air defense systems as much as possible, the number of fuel tankers increased, this is also not a coincidence. This is a consequence of using the Kerch bridge for fuel supply
Addition
The “Crimean Wind” monitoring group, citing satellite survey data, reported that Russia lost almost half of the barriers from barges near the Kerch bridge during autumn-winter storms.
On December 29, the spokesman of the Navy, Dmytro Pletenchuk, stated that storms in the Kerch Strait already this year disabled part of the Russian barriers created to protect the Kerch Bridge.
In September, it was reported that on the island of Tuzla, next to the Kerch Bridge, the Russians are installing metal towers with platforms on which to place air defense systems to protect the Crimean Bridge.
In July 2024, Kyrylo Budanov, head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Ukraine, stated that the Crimean Bridge should be destroyed.