Day 493 of the Invasion of Ukraine: Head of the CIA has Secretly Visited Ukraine

Day 493 of the invasion of Ukraine. Summary of key events in the last 24 hours:

• Russian bloggers destroy the Russian military command with criticism for its failures at the bridge "Antonovsky"
• The head of the CIA on a secret visit to Ukraine
• The Spanish prime minister arrived in Kyiv on the day his country assumed the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU
• Valerii Zaluzhnyi to The Washington Post: Fighting without planes is like opposing weapons with bows and arrows

Russian bloggers destroy the Russian military command with criticism for its failures at the bridge "Antonovsky"

The Russian military command is under heavy criticism from Russian bloggers that Russian troops have failed to dislodge a small group of Ukrainian armed forces from their bridgehead under the eastern overpass of the Antonovsky Bridge in the Kherson region.

This is stated in another report of the American Institute for the Study of War, cited by the BBC.

According to bloggers, the command "blindly" ordered the military to storm the area, which led to significant losses of people and armored vehicles. Instead, pro-war commentators called for strikes on the bridge.

On June 30, the Russian military did indeed strike the Antonovsky Bridge with an Iskander ballistic missile, but the extent of the damage could not yet be assessed, ISW noted. Given the alleged lack of such missiles in Russia, the decision to use one of them against a light infantry unit of about 70 people on the approaches to the already destroyed bridge seems strange, the analysts wrote.

The sharp reaction of bloggers to the decisions of the military...