The V1 map (in the original box) shows the city as nothing but rubble and the name in (brackets). I take this to mean it's a pile of rubble and a city in name only.
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Many settlements on the map are marked as being in ruins. These settlements were destroyed in the nuclear exchange or were devastated by the conventional fighting back and forth across Poland. These ruins are seldom, if ever, totally uninhabited. Small groups of a dozen or so people may still be combing the ruins, living off (increasingly scarce) stocks of canned food discovered in the ruins. Bands of marauders may be camped in the ruins. In major cities, small communities may scrape a meager subsistence by cultivating the former municipal parks. Almost any sort of encounter is possible in the ruins of a city.
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My thoughts are the city was indeed nuked (it's position and industry alone are reason enough), but is lightly inhabited. The situation is likely to be similar to that in Warsaw, although on a smaller scale (maybe a few hundred scavengers total scattered through the ruins, all roads and railways destroyed / covered by rubble, etc).
You may not need to add B Coy to the OOB. The combat engineers plus mechanics
could potentially supply enough manpower, with a few more warm bodies drawn from the combat units. The combat engineers should have the technical knowledge, and would probably have trained specifically for the task beforehand. Regardless, there'd be little need for a specialist engineer unit to hang about once the bridge(s) is complete.
With the destruction of the city, and blockage of roads, it might be worth adding a bulldozer to the OOB, operated by the Combat Engineers. A civilian model, scrounged up before the operation would do, and not add another armoured vehicle to the mix. It would also be useful in constructing defensive positions, while the fuel held out and after the necessary roads were cleared.