- Footage showed Ukrainian troops blowing up the pontoon bridge
- The pontoon bridge was destroyed by a HIMARS attack
- Putin accused Ukraine of wanting to blow up a nuclear power plant
This is when Ukrainian forces destroy a pontoon bridge in the Kursk region with a HIMARS attack, potentially stranding thousands of Russian troops.
The pontoon crossing in the border region was built by Putin’s military after Ukrainian forces destroyed at least three permanent bridges across the western Russian border. Recent attacks on the Seim River.
Video footage showed drones chasing and blowing up trucks. Drones were also seen crashing into stationary military vehicles, while aerial footage showed the pontoon bridge being decimated.
The images came in when Vdefamation Putin accused Ukraine of trying to nuclear energy factory in Kursk, where the first foreign invasion of Russia since the World War II.
Ukraine has not yet commented on the allegations about the alleged attack, which Putin provided no evidence of when he told senior Kremlin officials today.
Alexei Smirnov, acting governor of the Kursk region, told Putin at the same meeting 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 said Ukraine tried to attack Kursk nuclear power plant (photo)
The Kursk plant is one of Russia’s best nuclear power plants. It produces about half of the electricity used in the Black Earth region of southern Russia.
The power plant has four Russian graphite-moderated RBMK-1000 reactors. These reactors are of the same design as those at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which in 1986, when it was still part of the Soviet Union, was the scene of the world’s worst nuclear disaster.
TThere are an estimated 2,000 to 3,000 Russian troops in the region, which is slowly being surrounded by Ukraine.
The audacious Ukrainian invasion of the Kursk region has shocked the Kremlin and exposed Russia’s vulnerability, while thwarting President Vladimir Putin’s attempts to portray the country as unaffected by the invasion.
Authorities in Kursk began installing concrete shelters at bus stops and other locations in the city to protect them from shelling, and plan 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 has ordered the creation of self-defense units in Russian regions bordering Ukraine.
Images show the bridge being blown up by strikes
Drones were seen striking military vehicles
There are reportedly 2,000 to 3,000 troops in the area that was attacked
It is believed that Ukraine used a HIMARS missile to hit the pontoon bridge
Smirnov reported to Putin that more than 133,000 people have left the areas affected by the fighting in the Kursk region, while more than 19,000 people have remained.
The governor of Bryansk, another Russian region bordering Ukraine, said authorities in the region have conducted training for emergency evacuations from border areas if necessary.
However, Ukraine’s conquest of Russian territory comes at a time when Ukraine is losing ground in eastern Ukraine.
The Russian Defense Ministry said on Thursday that its military has claimed control of the village of Mezhove in Donetsk, part of the Donbas industrial region that Moscow wants to capture in full.
The advance from Ukraine into Russia marks the first conquest of Russian territory since World War II.