A view of a broken bridge over the Seym River in Glushkovo district, following a Ukrainian assault in Kursk area, Russia, on this nonetheless picture taken from a social media video posted on August 16, 2024. | Photograph credit score: Reuters
Russia’s Overseas Ministry stated Ukraine had used Western rockets, in all probability US-made HIMARS, to destroy a bridge over the Seym River within the Kursk area, killing volunteers making an attempt to evacuate civilians.
“For the primary time, the Kursk area was attacked by Western-made rocket launchers, almost certainly American HIMARS,” Russian Overseas Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated late on Friday (August 16, 2024) on the Telegram messaging app.
“Because of the assault on the bridge over the Seym River within the Glushkovo district, it was fully destroyed and volunteers who have been serving to the evacuated civilian inhabitants have been killed.”
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Ukrainian military chief Oleksandr Syrskyi stated on Friday that Kiev forces have been advancing between 1 and three kilometers in some areas of the Kursk area, 11 days since an incursion into Russia started.
kyiv claims to have taken management of 82 settlements protecting an space of 1,150 sq. kilometres within the area since August 6.
Reuters Neither facet’s accounts of occasions on the battlefield might be independently verified.
Russia has accused the West of supporting and inspiring Ukraine’s first floor offensive on Russian territory and stated kyiv’s “terrorist invasion” wouldn’t change the course of the struggle.
The US, which has stated it can not permit Russian President Vladimir Putin to win the struggle he launched in February 2022, is thus far viewing the shock incursion as a protecting measure that justifies the usage of American weaponry, officers in Washington stated.
Russia continued its assault on Ukraine on Saturday whilst Ukrainian forces superior towards the Russian border area of Kursk.
A Russian missile has brought about a hearth within the metropolis of Sumy, injuring two individuals and damaging vehicles and close by buildings, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service stated. The service stated an Iskander-Okay cruise missile and an aerial bomb have been liable for the impression.
Ukraine’s air power additionally stated it had shot down 14 Russian drones in a single day, together with some over the kyiv area.
In the meantime, preventing continued in Russia’s Kursk area, the place Ukrainian troops have been deployed since August 6 in an try and divert the Kremlin’s navy consideration from the entrance line in Ukraine.
