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Open-source intelligence analysts said the attack destroyed the bridge and has effectively cut off Russian troops in the town of Glushkovo.
Images show the bridge snapped in two with the middle section jutting out of the river below.
Multiple Russian Telegram channels confirmed the strike on Friday evening, with one saying the bridge’s destruction would force Russian reinforcements on a dangerous detour.
The Russian foreign ministry later said that the attack was carried out with Western-supplied Himars artillery and killed volunteers trying to evacuate civilians.
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10:53AM
Ukraine’s Kursk incursion ‘derails partial ceasefire talks’
Ukraine’s incursion into the Kursk region of Russia has derailed talks for a partial ceasefire, the Washington Post reported on Saturday.
According to the newspaper, Kyiv and Moscow were set to hold indirect talks in Qatar about halting strikes on energy and power infrastructure.
The discussions were reportedly abandoned after Ukraine’s shock cross-border assault into Russian territory that began on August 6.
For over a year, Russia has hit Ukraine’s power grid with a barrage of cruise missiles and drone strikes. Ukraine, meanwhile, has conducted a campaign of long-range drone attacks on Russian oil facilities that has reduced Moscow’s oil refining capacity by an estimated 15 per cent.
10:41AM
Ukrainian men attack border guard while trying to flee to Romania
Three Ukrainian men attacked a border guard while attempting to illegally cross into Romania, local media has reported.
“The men, having attacked the serviceman, took away his weapon and fled in the direction of the neighbouring country,” the Kyiv Independent quoted a border guard service spokesman as saying.
The spokesman said that two of the men were later detained by Ukrainian servicemen, while the third was caught by Romanian police, who found the stolen weapon in his possession.
Ukrainian men aged 18-60 are prohibited from leaving the country without special permission.
According to Romanian police, 11,000 military-aged Ukrainian men have illegally crossed into the country since the start of Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
10:25AM
Pictured: The aftermath of a Russian strike on Sumy
A Russian missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Sumy on Saturday morning injured at least two people and damaged several buildings and cars, local officials said.
“As a result of the attack, two people were injured, 10 cars, two apartment buildings, and a shopping center building were damaged. All specialized services are working at the scene,” Oleksiy Drozdenko, the head of the city’s military administration, wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
10:14AM
Russia accuses Ukraine of bombing nuclear power plant road
Russia has accused Ukraine of bombing a road alongside the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in southeastern Ukraine, creating a “direct threat” to the facility and to its staff.
The plant’s management said an “explosive charge” was dropped by a drone on a perimeter track next to the facility’s power units early on Saturday morning, according to Russia’s state-run Tass news agency.
Nobody was injured in the alleged attack, the agency added.
Tass published photographs showing several men inspecting an impact crater on the road, all of whom were wearing International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)-branded clothing.
Russia and Ukraine regularly accuse each other of endangering the safety of the plant…READ FULL ARTICLE
