{"id":1300545,"date":"2025-10-02T14:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T11:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/from-boom-barriers-to-full-inspections-how-russia-guards-the-crimean-bridge\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T14:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T11:34:07","slug":"from-boom-barriers-to-full-inspections-how-russia-guards-the-crimean-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/from-boom-barriers-to-full-inspections-how-russia-guards-the-crimean-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"From boom barriers to full inspections: how Russia guards the Crimean bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russia has created a multi-layered system of protection around the Crimean Bridge – from boom barriers at sea and total inspections on land to tight air cover. The FSB coast guard is constantly on duty there, patrol boats are on duty, and the sky is controlled by drones and combat aircraft, including Su-57s. It is these measures that still keep the illegal structure from further destruction.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dmytro Pletenchuk, spokesman for the Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, described in detail in an interview<\/a> with UNIAN how exactly the Russians “patched” the approaches to the bridge and why the destruction of this infrastructure is a matter of a high level of skill and planning.<\/p>\n

According to him, the occupiers actually blocked the Crimean Canal with boom and barge barriers and constantly “drown” various objects in the water area to make underwater sabotage impossible.<\/p>\n

“The Crimean Canal is actually blocked, the occupiers are erecting both boom and barge barriers – everything is blocked as much as possible… How the bridge was hit last time still remains a mystery to most,” Pletenchuk noted, recalling the undermining of the support in June, when the SBU activated underwater explosives.<\/p>\n

He emphasized that access to the bridge from land is almost impossible without checks – “getting to it is like crossing the state border” – the location is extremely tightly covered from the air. In addition to the coast guard, boats, air defense systems, and operational-tactical-level aviation are operating there.<\/p>\n

Pletenchuk said specifically about air cover: the Russians use everything, “from drones to operational-tactical-level aviation.” Among the drones are “Forpost”, “Orion” and the Iranian Mohajer-6. Helicopters and planes of various models were also spotted in the air, sometimes even Su-57s with escort.<\/p>\n

The spokesman also emphasized the Navy’s role in the overall air defense system. According to him, drone attacks often come from the sea, so it is more difficult to repel them from the water than on land.<\/p>\n

“If pickup trucks with mobile groups can be driven into the field, then at sea it’s only ships or boats. And we meet these targets first,” Pletenchuk explained.<\/p>\n

He also gave an example of the actions of the river flotilla in the Kyiv region: river force divisions repel attacks by kamikaze drones moving along the Dnieper, which demonstrates the importance of the naval and river components in the overall defense system against drones.<\/p>\n

In conclusion, Pletenchuk briefly summarized: Russian measures to protect the Crimean Bridge make its vulnerability minimal, so the destruction of key facilities in Crimea requires complex technical and tactical solutions and a high level of coordination.<\/p>\n

Recall, we previously wrote that the occupiers are sinking metal barrier structures in the sea in the form of so-called “hedgehogs”<\/a> to restrict movement and protect themselves from attacks by Ukrainian naval drones.<\/p>\n

Earlier, the Security Service of Ukraine struck the Crimean Bridge for the third time<\/a> . The explosion occurred underwater. After a unique special operation, the illegal structure was in a state of emergency.<\/p>\n

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Russia has created a multi-layered system of protection around the Crimean Bridge – from boom barriers at sea and total inspections on land to tight air cover. The FSB coast guard is constantly on duty there, patrol boats are on duty, and the sky is controlled by drones and combat aircraft, including Su-57s. It is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":1300532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76874],"class_list":["post-1300545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1300545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1300532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1300545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1300545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}