ATCMS cuts the supply lines of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The last one is the most difficult - forbes

The ferrous crossing was last affected: probably on May 30, ATACMS rockets struck the ferry in Crimea. It was damaged if two ferries were not destroyed: for transportation of cars and trucks and trains. Satellite images confirmed the losses. The ferry was actively used by the enemy to support his troops in the temporarily occupied Crimea, the Armed Forces General Staff reported. But the ferries were a spare military crossing.

The main and safest is the railway, which is extremely difficult to destroy. The explosion of several Russian ferries can please friends of free Ukraine, but real harm to Russian troops in the occupied south of Ukraine does not carry, journalists say. The strokes on the checkpoints in Kerch "have a political rather than military character and are aimed at putting pressure on Putin in the eyes of the Russian people," Mick Ryan, General of the Australian Army, wrote.

The Ukrainian campaign aimed at Russian logistics in the south of Ukraine has become a larger and more complicated full -scale invasion of the first weeks. Initially, the Ukrainians attacked the cargo land ships of the Black Sea Fleet Storm Shadow, Scalp and sea drones. Last summer, the Armed Forces were bombed and damaged by the Crimean bridge, it took six months to fully restore spans to Russian engineers. Now the forces of defense have also aimed at the ferry.

The distance at which the crossing is located from the front line indicates that they used the ATCMS M48 or M57, at a distance of 270 and 300 km with a weight of warhead of about 200 kg. Ukraine received M48 or M57 as part of the second large part of hundreds or more rockets in April. The previous party of several dozen included only M39 models with cassette warheads (thousands of grenade -sized grenade in each) and 160 km.

The long -range ATACMS have devastated Russian airfields, air defense batteries and warships all over the Crimea. The fact that they pose a serious threat to ferries is obvious. But it is unclear how important it is. The Russian leadership perhaps the approach of the Ukrainian campaign of deep blows and last summer accelerated the construction of a new railway connecting lines in the occupied Russian East and south of Ukraine.

According to Ukrainian analysts at Fronetelligence Insight, this route significantly shortens the time from the Russian Federation to Mariupol, at the bottom, and sometimes on the week. Troops are becoming more effective. "Our team believes that this new railway will be enough to supply the region, even if the Crimean bridge is destroyed," analysts wrote. The new railway compensates for any difficulty with a ferry through the Kerch Strait. It is difficult to destroy the railway.

In the past, when Ukraine, with the help of Scalp and Storm Shadow missiles, tried to attack the railway bridge that connects Crimea with the rest of the country, was caused relatively minor damage, which did not break the railway work for a long time, Frontelligence Insight explained. According to analysts, it is no less difficult to get into the trains.

Probably, the Russians minimize the movement of trains in the daytime and carry out more logistics operations at night and early in the morning. The Armed Forces can attack the bridges through which the railway passes. "Ukraine is currently at its disposal to seriously damage this network, which potentially makes it unusable for the week or even a month," Fronetelligence INSIGHT said.

But it is worth considering a number of factors, such as the number of air defense systems that Russia is ready to distinguish to protect vulnerable places, especially bridges. Now the Russian air defense systems are very stretched, the Kremlin is trying to protect the occupied territories from blows of drones, rockets. At the same time, the Russian Federation needs to protect industrial facilities, radars and airfields in the Russian territory.