KEY BRIDGES STRUCK: Using what appeared to be British Storm Shadow air-launched cruise missiles, Ukraine successfully targeted two small but strategically significant bridges that link Russian-occupied Crimea to southern Ukraine. Images posted on social media showed part of one bridge collapsed and a large hole in the deck of the other. Ukraine posted a notice to mariners Friday declaring six Black Sea ports to be in the war zone and potential military targets. ”Two can play that game,” the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense said in a post on the social media site formerly known as Twitter. “I mean, the estimates are that these unmanned, uncrewed sea drones had to go about 450 miles or more.

Source: Washington Post August 07, 2023 11:30 UTC