- Footage shows Ukrainian forces blowing up the pontoon bridge
- The pontoon bridge was destroyed by a HIMARS attack
- Putin accuses Ukraine of trying to blow up a nuclear power plant
This is the moment Ukrainian troops destroyed a pontoon bridge in the Kursk region with a HIMARS attack, which could leave thousands of Russian troops stranded.
The pontoon crossing in the border region was built by Putin’s military after Ukrainian forces destroyed at least three permanent bridges over Russia’s western border. Seim River in recent attacks.
Video footage shows drones chasing trucks and blowing them up. Drones can also be seen crashing into parked military vehicles, while aerial footage shows the pontoon bridge being destroyed.
The images arrived when VLadimir Putin accused Ukraine of trying to attack nuclear power Plant in Kursk, where the first foreign invasion of Russia is taking place. Russia from the Second World War.
Ukraine has yet to comment on the allegations of the alleged attack, for which Putin provided no evidence when he relayed them to senior Kremlin officials today.
At the same meeting, Acting Governor of the Kursk Region Alexei Smirnov informed Putin that the situation at the Kursk nuclear power plant was stable.
Dramatic footage showed Ukrainian troops attacking a pontoon bridge in the Kursk region
Vladimir Putin (pictured) accused Ukrainian troops of attacking a nuclear power plant
Putin claimed that Ukraine tried to attack the Kursk nuclear power plant (pictured)
The Kursk plant is one of Russia’s largest nuclear power plants, supplying about half of the electricity consumed in the Black Earth region in southern Russia.
The plant has four Soviet graphite-moderated RBMK-1000 reactors, the same design as those at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which in 1986, when it was part of the Soviet Union, became the scene of the world’s worst nuclear disaster.
IThere are an estimated 2,000 to 3,000 Russian troops in the region, which are slowly being encircled by Ukraine.
Ukraine’s audacious incursion into the Kursk region has shaken the Kremlin, exposing Russia’s vulnerability and shattering President Vladimir Putin’s efforts to pretend the country has been largely unscathed by the invasion.
Kursk authorities have begun erecting concrete shelters at bus stops and other locations in the city to protect it from shelling and are planning similar work in Zheleznogorsk and Kurchatov, where the Kursk nuclear power plant is located, the region’s acting governor, Alexei Smirnov, said on his Telegram channel.
Putin said in a video call with officials that he had ordered the creation of self-defense units in Russian regions bordering Ukraine.
The images show the bridge being destroyed by the attacks.
Drones were observed crashing into military vehicles
There are reportedly between 2,000 and 3,000 soldiers in the area that was attacked.
Ukraine is believed to have used a HIMARS missile to attack the pontoon bridge.
Smirnov told Putin that more than 133,000 people have left the areas affected by the fighting in the Kursk region, while more than 19,000 have stayed.
The governor of Bryansk, another Russian region bordering Ukraine, said authorities in the region have conducted training for emergency evacuation of border areas if necessary.
But Ukraine’s capture of Russian territory comes as the country continues to lose ground in the east.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said Thursday its military has reclaimed control of the village of Mezhove in Donetsk, part of the Donbass industrial region that Moscow is seeking to seize in its entirety.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine marks Russia’s first capture of territory since World War II.
