'The structural elements of the bridge are degrading,' Atesh, a pro-Kyiv military partisan group, said.
The Kerch Bridge, a strategically vital structure used by Russia to connect with occupied Crimea, is in need of urgent repairs and cannot survive structural damage, according to a Crimean-based pro-Ukrainian group.'The Kerch Bridge is living its final days,' Atesh, a pro-Kyiv military partisan group of Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars, said in a post on Telegram on Sunday.
In July, the partisan group said Russia had begun to redeploy its air defenses to protect the Kerch Bridge.Moscow is 'actively redeploying the surviving air defense installations, aircraft, radars and all military facilities from the western part of Crimea,' it said at the time.Crimean Wind, a pro-Ukrainian Telegram channel, separately said on August 28 that Russia had deployed one of its Pantsir-S1 air defense systems to defend the structure.
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