According to acting head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration Mykhailo Semikin, those injured include two Red Cross employees who were on their way to work, as well as two women and one man. Traffic across the bridge was temporarily blocked because the road surface was damaged.
Semikin published a photo showing a round hole in the road surface. He asked residents of Zaporizhzhia to take the restrictions into account and follow official information.
Before this, the Russian army had carried out strikes on bridges over the Dnipro in Kyiv. The first strike was carried out by two drones on the Southern Bridge on October 1, after which the crossing was subjected to two more attacks by strike drones.
On October 3, the Northern Bridge in Kyiv became the target of Russian jet drones. It was also hit by drones on October 4 — on the day of the visit to the Ukrainian capital by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who called such strikes war crimes.
In all of these cases, the crossings were damaged, including the road surface, and traffic across them was blocked. This led to traffic disruptions in Kyiv.
The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed the attacks and claimed that the bridges allegedly facilitate the transfer of troops and the delivery of military cargo for the Ukrainian army in Donetsk Oblast. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had previously said that Russia was preparing to intensify attacks on major Ukrainian cities and cut them off from the rest of the country.
Senior Ukrainian officials told The Economist that Russia, in particular, plans to paralyze Kyiv before the onset of cold weather and destabilize the political situation. Sources among Ukrainian officials cited by the Financial Times also noted that Moscow seeks to increase pressure on Kyiv so that it will concede to its demands at the beginning of 2027, including handing over territories in Donbas.
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