Ukraine incursion destroys key Russian bridge
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4.4 • 984 Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Almost two weeks into its attack on Russia's Kursk region, Ukraine has rendered unusable another bridge over the river Seym, further complicating logistics for Russian forces, and making it more difficult for them to bring in reinforcements. Earlier in the week, the Ukrainians destroyed another bridge. Correspondents say cutting Russian access may indicate Kyiv is planning to hold and expand the ground they've taken, to form a buffer zone to protect Ukraine's Sumy region.
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(Photo: A satellite image shows a bridge collapsed over the Seym river in the Glushkovo district, after a Ukrainian strike in the Kursk region. Credit: Handout via Reuters.)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to New Zow from the BBC World Service is coming live from London and this is |
| 0:08.8 | Owen Bennett Jones. Ukraine says it has destroyed another bridge in Russia as it continues its offensive in the |
| 0:15.6 | Kursk region. The commander of the Ukrainian Air Force posted a video which showed the moment |
| 0:21.1 | the bridge was brought down. He said the aim was to cut Russian supply lines. |
| 0:26.0 | Vladimir O'melian is a major in the Ukrainian armed forces. |
| 0:30.0 | It's war and any unpredictable thing can happen any seconds. |
| 0:36.9 | But still as of today, more than two weeks past and we control this territory, we hold |
| 0:42.3 | it 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 fled for safety now, among them this woman who spoke to the |
| 1:10.9 | BBC's Ukraine cast. |
| 1:12.8 | It has been very, very extremely anxious for this past week in Kursk. |
| 1:17.8 | Very frightening for everyone. |
| 1:19.9 | Due to this dreadful uncertainty, people really do not know what do we wait for. |
| 1:26.4 | Are we already supposed to run away or stay back? |
| 1:30.3 | This uncertainty just kills. Some people are just literally paralyzed by the horror of everything that's going on. |
| 1:39.0 | Well, I've been speaking to Christopher Miller. He is the Ukraine correspondent for the Financial Times and has written a book on the war. |
| 1:47.0 | He was speaking from the Ukrainian-Russian border nearby and told us about the attack on the bridge. |
| 1:53.0 | There have been two attacks in just the past 24-36 hours on two bridges in Russia's Kursk region. |
| 2:01.0 | And we know from the Air Force commander here in Ukraine that these attacks were carried out by his forces. |
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