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Ukraine war latest: Kyiv hits third bridge in Russia’s Kursk to create ‘buffer zone’

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Ukraine war latest: Kyiv hits third bridge in Russia’s Kursk to create ‘buffer zone’

Ukraine hits second bridge in Russia’s Kursk region

A Russian investigator confirmed that Ukraine on Sunday had struck and damaged a third bridge over the River Seym in Russia’s Kursk region.

A video statement from a representative of Russia’s Investigative Committee was posted on Russian state TV anchor Vladimir Solovyov’s Telegram channel.

Ukraine’s commander said on Sunday that the Ukrainian air force had destroyed another strategic bridge over the Seym River in Russia’s Kursk region, limiting the supply capacity of a Russian group opposing the Ukrainian advance.

It comes as Russia launched its third ballistic missile on Kyiv this month in retaliation for Ukraine’s shock incursion, with preliminary data showing that all the air weapons were destroyed on their approach to the city.

Western military analysts say there were three bridges in the area of the Ukrainian army’s offensive through which Russia supplies its forces – and two of them have been either destroyed or seriously damaged.

Meanwhile, Ukraine’s air defence units repelled Russia’s overnight air attacks, including on Kyiv, destroying all 11 drones that Moscow launched targeting Ukraine’s territory. The drones were downed over the Mykolaiv, Cherkasy, Vinnytsia, Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Sumy and Donetsk regions, the Ukraine’s air force said this morning.

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Zelensky has humiliated Putin, but what good can his ‘buffer zone’ do?

Zelensky has humiliated Putin, but what good can his ‘buffer zone’ do?

After Ukraine’s audacious incursion into the Kursk region – which made Putin the first Russian leader since 1941 to suffer a foreign invasion – establishing a full demilitarised zone between the warring neighbours could yet prove useful in the event of Donald Trump’s re-election, says Sean O’Grady

Tom Watling20 August 2024 05:00

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Belarus sends more troops, aircraft, arms to border with Ukraine

Belarus has sent aircraft, air defence forces and arms to its border with Ukraine, a day after president Alexander Lukashenko said he had deployed nearly a third of his country’s armed forces to the region.

Ukraine says it has not seen an increase in Belarusian troops on the border and called Lukashenko’s statements “rhetoric” aimed at pleasing Mr Putin, who used Belarus as a launchpad to start his invasion in Ukraine in February 2022.

“The group has been significantly increased, and at the moment they are on duty at the southern borders of our country,” Belarus’s air force chief Maj General Andrei Lukyanovich told the state-owned CTV broadcaster.

Aviation, anti-aircraft missile forces, and radio-technical troops were deployed to the border, Mr Lukyanovich said, according to a transcript provided on CTV’s website.

Belarus was also expecting more military aircraft deliveries from Moscow this year and Minsk is putting its efforts into strengthening its anti-drone systems, the senior Belarusian military official said.

“The fact that drones are the plague of the 21st century is obvious,” he said. “This is a headache, which, I think, we will find the means to counter.”

Days after Ukraine’s surprise incursion into Russia’s territory, Lukashenko – a loyal ally of Vladimir Putin – accused Kyiv of aggressive policies and of sending more than 120,000 of its troops to the border with Belarus.

Arpan Rai20 August 2024 04:41

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Ukraine says air defence engaged in repelling Russian air attack on Kyiv

Air defence units were engaged in trying to repel a Russian air attack on Kyiv this morning, the military administration of the Ukrainian capital said on Telegram.

Witnesses told Reuters they could hear blasts from what sounded like air defence units in operation. Any casualties due to the aerial attack were not immediately clear.

Cross-border drone and missile attacks by Russia have ravaged Ukraine for nearly 30 months since the start of Vladimir Putin’s invasion.

Arpan Rai20 August 2024 04:39

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Tom Watling20 August 2024 04:00

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Zelensky calls out Putin’s ‘red line’ bluff via Kursk attack

Ukraine’s assault on Russia’s Kursk region shows Kremlin threats of retaliation were a bluff, Volodymyr Zelensky said last night as he urged Kyiv’s allies to loosen curbs on using foreign-supplied weapons.

Mr Zelensky singled out allies who have supplied long-range weapons but told Kyiv they cannot use them deep inside Russia for fear of crossing “red lines” set out by Russian president Vladimir Putin.

Speaking to a gathering of Ukrainian diplomats, he said: “We are witnessing a significant ideological shift – the naive, illusory concept of so-called red lines regarding Russia, which dominated the assessment of the war by some partners, has crumbled apart these days.”

Criticising the limitations set by Ukraine’s allies, Zelensky said his troops could not use the weapons at their disposal to hit some Russian military targets. He urged allies to be bolder in their decisions about how to help Kyiv in the war.

“The world sees that everything in this war depends only on courage – our courage, the courage of our partners. On brave decisions for Ukraine, on courage in supporting Ukraine,” Mr Zelensky said.

The latest assessment by Kyiv says Ukrainian forces now control more than 1,250 sq km (483 square miles) and 92 settlements in Kursk region, while Russia said Ukraine had struck a third bridge in the region, complicating Russian efforts to repel the Ukrainian attack.

Arpan Rai20 August 2024 03:57

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Revealed: Ukraine’s plan to force Putin to retreat in shame

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Britain keeps poking the Russian bear – don’t be surprised if it lashes out

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Disarray in Putin’s military command exposed by Ukraine’s attack in Russia, says Zelensky’s chief adviser

Tom Watling20 August 2024 00:00

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Kent animal sanctuary rescues lion with ‘psychological issues’ from Ukraine

Kent animal sanctuary rescues lion with ‘psychological issues’ from Ukraine

A lion with “psychological issues” is to travel 1,400 miles from Ukraine to an animal sanctuary in the UK as part of a project rescuing the animal from the war-torn country. Yuna, an African lioness, suffered “shell shock”, “psychological issues” and lost her sense of co-ordination, according to The Big Cat Sanctuary, a Kent-based charity behind the Big Cats in Crisis campaign raising funds to rescue the lions from Ukraine. Yuna and African male lion Rori are the first of five lions to be rescued out of Ukraine after debris was blasted close to their enclosure in January as a result of Russia’s invasion of the country.

Tom Watling19 August 2024 23:00

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