Russia’s foreign ministry said Ukraine had likely used US-made HIMARS to destroy a bridge over the Seim river
For the first time, the Kursk region was hit by Western-made rocket launchers, probably American HIMARS.
Russia has been in control of the Zaporizhzhia plant, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, since soon after it launched a full-scale invasion ofsince the beginning of its full-scale invasion on 24 February 2022, according to the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces."Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Ukrainian forces have overrun one Russian settlement after another in the surprise operation that Kyiv hopes will change the dynamic of the two-and-a-half-year-old conflict. Kyiv has claimed to have taken control of 82 settlements over an area of 1,150 square kilometres in the region since 6 August.Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman for the Russian foreign ministry, said on the Telegram messaging app:
Ukraine’s army chief, Oleksandr Syrskyi, said on Friday that Kyiv’s forces were advancing between one and three kilometres in some areas in Russia’s Kursk region . “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 Telegram. “As a result of the attack on the bridge over the Seim River in the Glushkovo district, it was completely destroyed, and volunteers who were assisting the evacuated civilian population were killed.” The account could not immediately be verified.
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