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One explanation is that destroying them isn't that easy. You need to destroy at least one of the pylons to render them non-operational, fixing the spans is relatively straightforward. Ukraine also has several dams across the Dnieper, which are even harder to damage and would flood several large cities if destroyed. Drowning thousands of civilians is bad optics.
Also if I'm not mistaken, when one is invading a country one desires the bridges in territory that one has not yet conquered to be intact -- not that Russia is probably planning another trans-Dnieper adventure anytime soon, but I'm sure there a war-plan for it somewhere that would be made a lot easier by having some non-blown-up bridges available to supply whatever beachhead they might like to establish.
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