Ukraine continues its offensive in the Russian region of Kursk
Newshour
BBC
4.4 • 984 Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Ukraine says it has destroyed a second bridge in Russia, as it continues its offensive in the Kursk region. The commander of the Ukrainian air force posted a video appearing to show the moment the bridge was brought down, saying the aim was to cut Russian supply lines.
Also on the programme: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken due in Israel, in a renewed push for a Gaza ceasefire deal. We look back at the life and times of handsome French film star Alain Delon, who died aged 88 today. And we speak to Parwana Fayyaz and Batool Haidari, two writers involved in “My Dear Kabul”, a book featuring the WhatsApp messages that gave 23 Afghan women solace when the Taliban took over their country three years ago.
(Photo: A destroyed Russian tank outside Ukrainian-controlled Russian town of Sudzha, Kursk region. Credit: YAN DOBRONOSOV/AFP/Getty Images)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Newshour from the BBC World Service coming live from London. |
| 0:08.0 | This is Owen Bennett Jones. Now Ukraine says it has destroyed another bridge in Russia as it continues its offensive in |
| 0:15.2 | the Kursk region. The commander of the Ukrainian Air Force posted a video appearing |
| 0:20.4 | to show the moment the bridge was brought down and he said the aim was to cut |
| 0:24.4 | Russian supply lines. Vladimir O'Malleyan is a major in the Ukrainian armed forces. |
| 0:30.8 | It's war and any unpredictable thing can happen any seconds. |
| 0:37.0 | But still as of today, more than two weeks past and we control this territory, we hold it and we progress. |
| 0:44.0 | Definitely we cannot march to Moscow as Prigozin tried to do, |
| 0:49.0 | but in present situation, it turned out that Putin is not that strong as he dreams of. |
| 0:57.0 | He is not scary anymore and Kremlin doesn't have enough resources to withstand Ukrainian attack in the Russian territory. |
| 1:04.0 | Well, more than 100,000 people in Kursk have now fled for safety, |
| 1:09.0 | among them this woman who spoke to the BBC's Ukraine cast. |
| 1:13.2 | It has been very, very extremely anxious for this past week and Kursk. |
| 1:18.3 | Very frightening for everyone. |
| 1:20.1 | Due to this dreadful uncertainty, people really do not know what do we wait for. |
| 1:26.7 | Are we already supposed to run away or stay back? |
| 1:30.4 | This uncertainty just kills. |
| 1:33.0 | Some people are just literally paralyzed by the horror of everything that's going on. |
| 1:40.0 | Well, earlier I spoke to Christopher Miller. He is the Ukraine correspondent for the Financial Times and he's written a book on the war. |
| 1:48.0 | He's in Summy, it's near the Ukrainian-Russian border and he told me about the attack on the bridge. |
| 1:54.0 | There have been two attacks in just the past 24 36 hours on two bridges in Russia's |
| 2:00.7 | Kurisk region and we know from the Air Force commander here in Ukraine |
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