Ukrainian long-range strike drones have successfully damaged the critical bridge infrastructure at the Chongar strait, forcing Russian occupation authorities to completely shut down key transit corridors connecting mainland Ukraine to the occupied Crimean Peninsula. According to reports published by the Russian state-controlled news agency TASS, occupying forces closed the Chongar checkpoint on Sunday, June 7. JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. Bridge damage halts Dzhankoy and Chongar transit The Kremlin-appointed governor of the occupied Kherson region, Vladimir Saldo, confirmed via his Telegram channel that a wave of Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) targeted the area overnight, inflicting visible structural damage on the bridge deck near the locality of Chongar. “As a result of a drone attack overnight, a bridge near the locality of Chongar was damaged,” Saldo wrote. “For security reasons, traffic through the Dzhankoy auto crossing point has been temporarily closed. Specialized services are working at the scene.” The complete suspension of movement through both the Chongar point and the adjacent Dzhankoy automobile crossing severs a primary logistical artery used by the Russian military to shuttle heavy equipment, personnel, and supplies from parts of southwestern Russia and the occupied Donbas directly into Crimea. Ukrainian military authorities noted that on June 6, drone operators from the Special Operations Forces (SSO) successfully established effective air control over this vital sector of the southern land route, paving the way for the subsequent structural interdiction.