Shoigu said on television that he would "proceed with the withdrawal of the soldiers" after a proposal by the commander of Russian operations in Ukraine, General Sergei Surovikin.Photos on the internet showed the span of the Darivka bridge on the main highway east out of Kherson completely collapsed into the water of the Inhulets River, a tributary of the Dnipro River.Before launching its ground offensive in the north of the Kherson region at the end of the summer, Ukrainian forces disabled key bridges for the supply of Russian forces, thanks in particular to arms delivered by the West, in particular American HIMARS rocket systems.Moscow says it has been "evacuating" civilians, but Kyiv has described the population transfers from the right bank of the Dnipro as "deportations".It provides Moscow with a land bridge to the Black Sea peninsula that it seized from Kyiv in 2014."