Ukraine’s daring offensive into Vladimir Putin’s Russia continues with explosive success as another bridge is destroyed more than seven miles inside the border.
The strategically important crossing was obliterated in a surgical strike shown on video footage shared by the Commander of Ukrainian Air Force Mykola Oleshchuk on Sunday.
The bridge on the Seim River near the village of Zvane is around seven miles inside Russia and around 10 miles northwest of the main area of fighting in Kursk.
Writing alongside a video of the strike on the bridge, the second destroyed by Ukraine in recent weeks, Commander Oleshchuk wrote: “The Air Force’s aviation continues to deprive the enemy of logistical capabilities with precise air strikes, significantly impacting the course of the fighting. Minus one more bridge”
Last night a humiliated Putin ordered another missile strike on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, but air defences held reportedly destroying all the attacking aerial threats.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his nation had been attacked by more than 40 missiles, 750 guided bombs and 200 strike UAV drones in the past week.
Posting on X he wrote: “Russia always knows where it is striking with its missiles and bombs, this is deliberate and targeted Russian terror.
“Over the course of this week, the Russians have used more than 40 missiles of various types, 750 guided aerial bombs, and 200 strike UAVs of different types against our cities and villages.
“For such terror, the occupier must be held accountable before the courts and history. They are already facing the strength of our warriors, all those Ukrainians who are restoring justice, destroying the occupier, and defending our positions.”
The President added that the Ukrainian’s offensive into Russian territory was now aimed at creating a “buffer zone on the aggressor’s territory”.
Kyiv previously said little about the goals of its push into Russia with tanks and other armoured vehicles, the largest attack on the country since World War II, which took the Kremlin by surprise and saw scores of villages and hundreds of prisoners fall into Ukrainian hands.
The Ukrainians drove deep into the region in several directions, facing little resistance and sowing chaos and panic as tens of thousands of civilians fled.
Ukraine’s Commander in Chief General Oleksandr Syrskyi, claimed last week that his forces had advanced across 1,000 square kilometres (390 square miles) into Russia, although it was not possible to independently verify what Ukrainian forces effectively control.