Ella Kipling and Dan Johnson, Ukraine correspondent in Kyiv
(BBC) – A Russian strike has hit a second major bridge in Kyiv, Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko has said, as Moscow ramps up attacks on critical infrastructure in Ukraine’s capital.
The attack on Saturday morning injured two people, and damaged the road surface and overhead trolleybus wires on the Pivnichnyi (Northern) Bridge, Klitschko said, causing traffic jams.
It comes after the Pivdennyi (Southern) Bridge was hit multiple times by Russian drones this week, with Klitschko warning that “the enemy is tearing Kyiv apart”.
Russia said its drones had hit the two bridges used to transfer Ukrainian troops and military cargo. Moscow again urged foreign citizens, including diplomats, to leave Kyiv.
The two Kyiv bridges across the Dnipro River link the western and eastern parts of the capital and had not been hit before Thursday.
The Russian strikes have severed road, rail and trolleybus links across the wide river. The ongoing drone threat means restrictions on other routes, bringing traffic jams to the city’s roads for a second day – though Friday’s gridlock has not been repeated to the same level.
