A video posted on Russian Telegram channels shows Moscow’s armed forces using a strike system similar to the twin Iskander system to destroy a bridgehead established by Ukrainian forces across the Dnipro River in Kherson Oblast and in close proximity to the Antoniv Bridge.

In Russian Telegram channels, it is said that the Ukrainian troops, who were creating a bridgehead near the Antonivsky Bridge, were struck by the Iskander mobile complex, which can launch short-range ballistic missiles and is dual-purpose, that is, it can use both conventional and nuclear warheads.

However, in this case, it is obviously a normal explosion:

If the information is confirmed, the strike shows both that Russian troops were deeply concerned about the bridgehead and that they were unable to knock out the Ukrainians from the other bank of the Dnieper, as OSINT analyst Oliver Alexander notes in a separate post on his page. by Twitter.

Such a strike is very unusual, since short-range ballistic missiles are usually used to hit important military infrastructure. Conventional military doctrine dictates that they be used against concentrations of troops if they are armed with nuclear warheads to inflict maximum damage on the battlefield.

Information that the Ukrainians had established a bridgehead across the Dnipro in the immediate vicinity of the Antonivskyi Bridge emerged earlier this week, as an explosion that severely damaged the Novaya Kakhovka dam resulted in Russian defense lines being “washed away” from there.

In fact, the Antoniv bridge is clearly visible right next to the explosion site captured in the new video, and the missing segment in the middle is also visible in the images. It will be recalled that Russian troops blew it up on November 11 after completing the retreat on the eastern bank of the Dnieper in the Kherson region.

What we know about the Ukrainian bridgehead across the Dnipro comes almost exclusively from the Russians

Despite the fact that Ukraine has not reported anything about the actions here under the conditions of an “information blackout” for the offensive, earlier this week Russian Telegram channels began broadcasting that the Ukrainian military had captured a village near the Antonivsky Bridge, practically across the street from the city. Kherson on the Russian-controlled bank of the Dnieper.

The same sources reported that Ukrainian troops have established themselves here and are trying to expand the bridgehead. Some sources say Russian forces here have been weakened in order to redeploy troops to the northeastern Zaporozhye region, which appears to be one of the main targets of the Ukrainian offensive.

Russian military blogger Sasha Vuzliv noted on Monday that “the activity of the enemy on the Dnieper in the area of ​​the Antoniv bridge has abnormally increased over the last week.” “Today we have to say that Ukraine has established itself on the (Russian-controlled) Left Bank and is trying to expand its gains,” he added.

Another Russian military blogger, Volodymyr Romanov, in turn, wrote that repeated attempts by the Russian infantry and motorized infantry to remove the bridgehead failed, referring to the “dead and wounded” and the loss of military equipment during the attempts to expel the Ukrainians.

However, he said that there is no danger that the Ukrainians could advance from here, accusing that “for reasons unknown to us, our commanders are carrying out the enemy’s plan to take our forces into an open field under enemy fire, although from the point of view of additional advance, the enemy’s forces do not pose a threat.” .

Romanov also reported that the Russian troops called on the command to carry out air and missile strikes on the bridgehead of the Ukrainian army.

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