Three bridges have been ravaged on roads leading into the city of Donetsk on Monday ahead of an expected offensive from regime forces, BBC reports.
It was obscure who was abaft the explosions but Ukrainian media verbally expressed the bridges were blown up by rebels as Ukraine’s military advanced.
Ukrainian troops regained control of the key rebel strongholds of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk on Saturday.
A journalist in Donetsk verbalizes civilians in the city are preparing for fighting.
“For the moment there are no gunfights but people are genuinely scared,” Yevgeny Shibalov told BBC Newshour.
“A lot of shops are closed and some banks officially declared they are closing their branches in the city,” he integrated.
Separatist fighters driven out of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk at the weekend have regrouped in Donetsk.
A railway line in the village of Novobakhmutivka that crosses over a main road out of Donetsk was targeted, leaving an astronomically immense cargo train dangling across the void.
A witness told the AP news agency that he optically discerned a group of camouflaged men get into their cars and peregrinate towards Donetsk shortly afore the bridge collapsed after an explosion.
Two other bridges on roads leading from Sloviansk to Donetsk were additionally ravaged in the villages of Zakitne and Seleznevka, Ukraine’s conveyance ascendancy verbalized on Monday.
Ukraine’s 5 Channel TV verbalized militants had carried out the assailments, quoting state railways as saying rehabilitating the bridges could take a month and a moiety.
Mykhaylo Koval, a senior Ukrainian security official, verbalized regime troops were preparing to perpetuate the operation against the separatists.
