Four Iskanders strike Kyiv's Pivdennyi Bridge.

Four Iskanders strike Kyiv's Pivdennyi Bridge.

I would very much like to say that this is economically impractical. Spending

.5–3 million) to punch holes in the deck between the metro tracks is not at all the same as pounding the Antonivskyi Bridge day after day with relatively cheap and highly accurate HIMARS.

Especially since the strikes on the Antonivskyi Bridge were tied to the need to isolate the combat area, whereas here the Kremlin's goal, apparently, is to create a transport collapse.

Moreover, Mykolaivsky Vanyok writes that, fortunately, not all the missiles once again reached their targets (Vanyok is writing generally, not specifically about the bridge).

That is, one might assume that the efficiency of such strikes is very low.

But at the same time, it is very difficult to state anything definitively because there are too many unknowns.

We do not know:

how many ballistic missiles have already been launched at Kyiv's bridges (though this is most likely not the first attempt to hit them)?

whether this is an isolated successful hit, or whether they have refined the accuracy enough to repeatedly place several Iskanders in the same spot?

the extent of the bridge's damage, how quickly it can be repaired, and when the metro can resume running across it?

In short, things will become clearer as the damage and prospects for restoring metro traffic across the bridge are assessed.