KHERSON, November 11. /TASS/. 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."
On November 9, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu agreed with a proposal made by the commander of the Russian army group in the special military operation zone, Sergey Surovikin, for the pullback of Russian troops in the Kherson Region from the right bank of the Dnieper to the left bank. Surovikin stressed that the Russian military had successfully repulsed all Ukrainian attacks. The decision to move the forces back was due to the risk of their isolation, should territories downstream from the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant be flooded. Surovikin said that all civilians who wished to leave - more than 115,000 people - had already been evacuated from the right bank.