It is the first time that the region has been attacked with rockets from the West, says the Russian Defense Minister.
Ukrainian forces They have destroyed a bridge over the river Seimin the Russian region of KurskRussian state news agency TASS reported on Friday, citing a regional representative of one of the security forces.
According to the news, The bridge was important for the logistics of the Russian military and the evacuation of local residents.
On Friday night, Ukrainian Air Force Commander Mykola Oleshchuk posted a video on his Telegram channel in which you can see how the bridge is reached. In the description that accompanied the video she wrote:
Now, Russia claims that American missiles are being used in the Ukrainian Kursk campaign.
The United States, which has said it cannot allow the Russian president, Vladimir Putingane the war that launched in February 2022so far considers the surprise raid a protective measure that justifies the use of American weapons, officials in Washington said.
Russia attacks Sumy with an Iskander-K missile
Meanwhile, two people were injured early Saturday morning when a Russian Iskander-K missile hit a residential and commercial area in Sumy, northeastern Ukraine, according to Ukrainian authorities.
The impact destroyed more than 10 carsdamaged a shopping center and blew out the windows of several homes. Firefighters went to the scene to put out the fires caused by the impact of the missile.
Oleksandr Khartsys, 37, spent the night at his tattoo studio, near where the missile hit. “I spent the night here. I woke up to the loud explosion, the doors and windows were blown up. I jumped up, and here were the cars burning and flying through the air,” he told the Associated Press.
Ukrainian troops have tried to divert military attention from the Kremlin from the front line in Ukraine launching a bold cross-border raid into Russia’s Kursk region.
But the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, warned on Thursday that Pokrovsk and other nearby towns in the Donetsk region continued to face intense Russian assaults.
