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Ukrainian drones strike rail bridge on Crimea’s Kerch–Dzhankoi line
Ukrainian drones struck the railway bridge over the North Crimean Canal near the village of Rozdolne, Sovetskoye district, in occupied Crimea overnight on 18 June, setting off a large fire, the Crimea-monitoring Telegram channel Krymsky Veter reported. Residents heard around 20 explosions in the area.
The bridge carries the Kerch–Dzhankoi line, the rail route Russia uses to move freight and troops onto the peninsula from the Kerch Bridge. If it is disabled, trains from Russia could reach no farther than the Vladyslavivka junction or Feodosia, according to the channel—though the degree of damage is not yet known.
Satellite data also showed a fire along the railway near Vladyslavivka station, a key junction in eastern Crimea, the channel said. Drones struck a road bridge beside the rail crossing at Rozdolne and, on the Arabat Spit in Kherson Oblast, two road bridges over the Promoina strait.
A campaign that moved from the land corridor inward
The strike extends a June campaign that had focused on the crossings linking Crimea to mainland Ukraine. On 11 June, drones hit four bridges at the peninsula's northwestern entrance near Armiansk; on 13 June, a strike on the Dzhankoi checkpoint also damaged a railway bridge and a pontoon crossing at Chonhar.
Ukraine hit the Chonhar and Henichesk road bridges again on 15 June, and on 17 June the General Staff confirmed fresh strikes on bridges in occupied Kherson Oblast used for military logistics. Russian-installed Kherson Oblast head Vladimir Saldo has reported drone attacks on the crossings repeatedly this month.
On the mainland side, the open-source group Dnipro Osint published satellite imagery on 18 June showing fresh damage to the Henichesk road bridge to the Arabat Spit, which it said was hit by at least three FP-2 and "Behemoth" drones. A pontoon crossing had already been set up beside it.
The "island" claim
Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov said this week that drones are turning Crimea into an island, part of a supply-interdiction push he calls Logistics Lockdown. Unmanned Systems Forces commander Robert Brovdi, call sign Madyar, has separately vowed to isolate the peninsula from Russia.
What remains unconfirmed is whether the rail bridge is out of service. Monitors reported fire and explosions; neither Ukraine's military nor the occupation authorities had detailed the damage to the Kerch–Dzhankoi crossing.
