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The pro-Kremlin Telegram channel Mash mentioned Ukrainian forces struck the bridge a number of instances with HIMARS rockets. The destruction of the bridge cuts off at the very least 27 settlements, in line with Mash, which mentioned the bridge was a foremost evacuation route for civilians.
The Russian opposition media web site Istories mentioned the bridge was in a “key logistics space of the Russian Armed Forces.”
Kyiv’s forces continued their advance within the Kursk area on Friday. “Our troopers proceed combating, advancing in numerous instructions from 1 to three kilometers,” Ukrainian Army Commander in Chief General Oleksandr Syrskyi advised President Volodymyr Zelenskyy through the employees assembly on Friday. “In normal, the scenario is below management,” Syrskyi mentioned.
When Zelenskyy requested him if there have been new prisoners of battle, Syrskyi mentioned he hoped Ukrainian forces would take lots within the space of Malaya Lokna village.
“We see that the occupier is struggling losses,” Zelenskyy mentioned in his nightly deal with late Friday. Kyiv’s army offensives are “about destroying the logistics of the Russian military and draining their reserves,” he mentioned.
“We should inflict most injury on all Russian positions, and we’re doing that,” Zelenskyy added.
Ukraine continued to safe its maintain on Sudzha, the one large metropolis they declare to regulate within the Kursk area. Syrskyi appointed the primary army command officer there. Ukrainians additionally dismantled Vladimir Lenin’s monument within the metropolis, the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture mentioned.
Russian forces, in the meantime, are advancing within the Donetsk area. Local governments on Friday reported Moscow’s troopers got here inside 10 kilometers of Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad, two strategically essential cities within the area. They urged native residents to evacuate.
