The missile attack on the Chongar bridge touched upon the myths of the very beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian war and the very first day of the war.
On February 24, the Russian army, without resistance, occupied the territory of the entire left-bank part of the Kherson region and part of the Zaporozhye region up to Melitopol.
First of all, because the columns of the Russian army passed the Chongarsky bridge without hindrance, a narrow strip of the Kharkov-Simferopol road near the village of Salkove, and then proceeded to the Dnieper River without fighting or delays.
The first resistance from the Ukrainian army was noted only in the area of the Antonovsky bridge by the forces of several tank platoons.
Throughout the Kherson region from the Chongarsky bridge to the Dnieper river, there were no armed forces of Ukraine, they were taken in advance beyond the Dnieper, on the right bank.
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