By Paul Adams and Leo Sands BBC News, Kyiv and London Image source, Getty Images Image caption, Ukrainian soldiers examine weapons at the frontline in Kherson in July Ukraine’s project to retake the inhabited Kherson area is “gathering speed”, Western armedforce sources state. A secret bridge into the city of Kherson is now out of action after Ukrainian forces struck it with long-range rockets provided by the UnitedStates. UK defence authorities state the city is now “virtually cut off from other occupied areas”. However, senior Ukrainian figures cautioned that Russia was now moving its forces to protect the southern location. Strategically situated west of the Dnipro river, the city was the veryfirst in the war to fall to Moscow’s forces. Ukrainian forces fired at Kherson’s Antonivskiy Bridge utilizing a Himars weapons rocket system on Tuesday which, according to Western military sources, has left the crossing “completely unusable”. Only a pockmarked wreck is stated to stay of the half-mile long bridge, one of 2 secret paths covering the Dnipro river which have both now been struck. Moscow relies on the crossings to resupply their soldiers stationed west of the river, and are now at danger of endingupbeing separated from the rest of Russia’s inhabiting forces. A 3rd bridge, over the Inhulets river to the north-east of Kherson city, has likewise been struck. Military sources explained Kherson as “politically the closest Russia has to a gem in the crown of its profession” – and its loss, they state, “would significantly weaken Russia’s tries to paint the profession as a success”. In a everyday intelligence upgrade, UK defence o
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