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is Russia still using the Crimean bridge to boost its military in Ukraine following ke’s attack on the bridge in July 2023 Russia said it would fully repair and continue to use the crossing within 3 months yet satellite images seem to suggest that moscow’s pivoted to using land routs in occupied eastern Ukraine to supply troops for its Army rather than the Crimean Bridge let’s take a closer [Music] look the satellite images taken by us space tech company Maxa and analyzed by Ukrainian intelligence agency molar show that the Crimean Bridge has very little traffic and may no longer be an effective Target for Ukrainian forces the pictures shared with the cube suggest that no freight trains carrying military equipment used the crossing between February and April 2024 a single freight train of about 55 cars carrying fuel tanks did however pass over the bridge in February the data seems to suggest that Russia is pooling its resources elsewhere where from May 2023 to March 2024 around 1,097 Freight cars were spotted into man station in Russia’s rostov region which borders donet and luhansk in occupied Ukraine according to the analysis yet 203 Freight cars were known to have crossed the Crimean bridge in the same period this may indicate a reluctance on Russia’s part to transport military cargo via the bridge after previous attacks and the use of alternative routes molar said the agency put the sharp reduction in Crossings down to Ukraine’s attack on the bridge in July 2023 specifically ke launched sea drones which struck its sea port damaging both the roadway and Railway section of the bridge in the explosion traffic has since resumed but with restrictions the head of Ukraine Security Service vasil maluk said that up to 46 trains carrying weapons used to cross daily but now it’s down to five trains carrying passengers and general Goods moscow’s hesitance to use the bridge corresponds with an uptick in Freight traffic between rostov and Ukraine’s occupied regions according to Mula it said that Russia is building new railway lines to connect Milito berdiansk and marup with Crimea and Russia it’s possible that these new routes are being prepared for a Russian offensive against Ukraine at some point in 2024 molar added failing that Russian forces could use other alternatives to the Crimean Bridge including motorways this land route which goes through the occupied territories from the rostov region to Crimea accounts for up to half of moscow’s cargo transport in the area for more investigations and fact checks head to our website euronews.com