Ukraine used Western rockets to destroy bridge in Kursk region

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia's foreign ministry said Ukraine had used Western rockets, likely U.S.-made HIMARS, to destroy a bridge over the Seym river in the Kursk region, killing volunteers trying to evacuate civilians.

"For the first time, the Kursk region was hit by Western-made rocket launchers, probably American HIMARS," Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman for the Russian foreign ministry, said late on Friday on the Telegram messaging app.



"As a result of the attack on the bridge over the Seym River in the Glushkovo district, it was completely destroyed, and volunteers who were assisting the evacuated civilian population were killed."

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Thoughts?

Means the rockets work.

Good.

Maybe some people around here have forgotten who started that war.

They're saving those poor Russian soldiers who are forced to fight.

They've now taken down couple more bridges over the same river, cutting down Russian supply to the area.

The destroyed bridges cut off an area that has in west and south Ukraine border, in east the areas Ukraine has taken in this attack and in north this river that now has no major bridge.
This area is approximately same size as what Ukraine occupied and getting it would give them a good defense line with the river.
This could be one of the main objectives of the operation and would suggests Ukraine will not try to capture the larger city of Kursk or the nearby nuclear plant. It will not change the course of war, but gives Ukraine a much stronger hold of piece of Russian territory.

Kaunisto wrote:

The destroyed bridges cut off an area that has in west and south Ukraine border, in east the areas Ukraine has taken in this attack and in north this river that now has no major bridge.
This area is approximately same size as what Ukraine occupied and getting it would give them a good defense line with the river.
This could be one of the main objectives of the operation and would suggests Ukraine will not try to capture the larger city of Kursk or the nearby nuclear plant. It will not change the course of war, but gives Ukraine a much stronger hold of piece of Russian territory.

by the looks of a live map the ukrainian advances seemed to have slowed down a bit sincce taking out the bridges so would surprise me if that was there main goal