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24 August 2024

Blown Bridges: As Ukraine’s Invasion Expands, Russia Closes In On Donbas City

Mike Eckel

Up until this weekend, the western reaches of the Seym River, a meandering waterway flowing west across the Kursk region into Ukraine, was spanned by three low, two-lane, concrete-and-asphalt bridges that served road traffic for the southern Russian territory.

As of August 20, however, those three bridges are now impassable, partially destroyed by a series of Ukrainian attacks that pose serious problems for Russian forces struggling to contain Ukraine’s two-week-old expanding invasion of Russia.

The goal of the effort — which has stunned Russia, surprised the West, and possibly rewritten the narrative of the entire war — remains uncertain, although President Volodymyr Zelenskiy signaled that at least one of the aims is to create a buffer zone.


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