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Russian soldiers could get surrounded as bridge destroyed in Kursk region

16 August, 2024 Friday
19:20

On August 16, a bridge over the Seim River in the Glushkovsky district of Russia's Kursk region was destroyed

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According to the Russian Telegram channel Mash, the information was confirmed by the adviser to the acting governor of the Kursk region, Roman Alekhin.

According to the Russian side, Ukrainian troops launched HIMARS strikes and destroyed a bridge over the Seim River in the Kursk region.

"The enemy has moved on to implement a plan to seize a section of the Glushkovsky district across the Seim River," said an adviser to the acting governor of the Kursk region.

Part of the Glushkovsky district is now effectively cut off from the Kursk region. We are talking about Tyotkino, Popovo-Lezhachi, Volfino, and about 27 other settlements. The only way to evacuate from there is across the river, and all bridges have been destroyed.

The 205th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Russian Federation complains that 700 Russian soldiers could have been surrounded.

  • At a meeting with the president on August 15, Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said that Ukraine had established the first military commandant's office in the Kursk region to provide humanitarian aid to local residents.
  • At the same time, the Ministry of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories, together with the military, is currently working on a possible route for a humanitarian corridor for civilians from Kursk to Sumy.
  • On August 15, The Independent reported that about two thousand Russian servicemen were captured during an operation by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region.
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