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The Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed the last bridge across the Seim River in the Glushkovky district in the Russian Kursk region. As a result of the series of Ukrainian strikes on Russian rear bridges, the military supplies and evacuation of civilians from the war-torn areas were complicated.
On the night of August 19, the Ukrainian military destroyed the bridge located near the village of Karuzh. The strikes were reportedly launched by Ukrainian military aircraft from the Ukrainian border areas. This was the third bridge across the Seim River destroyed in the Glushkovsky district.
On August 17, Ukrainian strikes heavily damaged another bridge near the village of Zvannoe. The day before, strikes with HIMARS MLRS and an aerial bomb destroyed the bridge near the town of Glushkovo.
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At the same time, the Armed Forces of Ukraine attempted an attack on a railway bridge across the Desna River in the Russian Bryansk region. Ukrainian forces deployed near the border in the Chernihiv region launched three UAVs towards the bridge located in the Pogarsky district. The bridge is located about 2 kilometers from Ukrainian border and was not used by the Russian military. The attack failed, none of the launched drones reached the bridge.
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Unlike strikes of MLRS and aerial bombs, Ukrainian drone strikes are unlikely to destroy Russian rear bridges. However, these could be the preliminary attempt to reach the rear bridges in the Bryansk region to complicate supplies and maneuvers of the Russian military in the border areas.
While the Ukrainian military is yet to reach targets in the Bryansk region, the destruction of bridges in the Glushkovsky district in the Kursk region forces the Russians to use boats and pontoon crossings for evacuation of civilians and military supplies to reinforce border defense, including in the area of Tetkino. Ukrainian forces are heavily shelling the town and Ukrainian reconnaissance groups are operating there. The destruction of bridges across the Seim River is likely is another step of Ukrainian plan to launch offensive operation across the border in this new direction in the Kursk region.
even though i am against jootin and his criminal invasion of ukraine, for the current ukrainian special military op in kursk i feel it is not a great as some people claim. it for sure momented to hit the jewtinists off guard, and ukraine is take large areas of kursk oblast, but still this in the end does not include targets of high strategic value. so it is not really changing the course of the war.
in my perspective the ukr advance in kursk has not achieved any significant strategic goal. yes, of course pootin was caught by surprise, but instead of having a small but steelhard single vector burning through none-existing ru defense lines in that oblast, ukraine stormed forward roughly 30-35 km in npp direction, then stopped and now turned westward and takes lots of territory there.
that’s of course not a bad situation, as these areas are not really defended – but this is simply because they are not strategically important. at the beginning of the op same situation was with the very important positions in the north too resp. kursk npp & kursk city itself, but instead moving straight into these areas (areas which have high strategic, political & economical relevance to russia – ukraine decided to take large) but unimportant bunches of kursk oblast west of sudzha.
and i do not see what this move will bring for ukraine. my expectations are: russia will simply continue its advance in donetsk, resp. pokrovsk region and take more&more important ukrainian territory there. ..
.. and since ukraine failed resp. not even aimed or tried to take kursk npp let alone encicrle kursk city, russia will not withdraw important battle groups from donetsk region and throw them to kursk, but will – simple withdraw in the north behind the road in front of kursk npp, build important defense line& fortifications & minefields there, and then dig in and defend this line.
while all this ru will move further forward in donetesk take more ukr territory the & then later after(!) some signaficant strategic gains in donetsk are reached (maybe in 6 months or 2 years) will decide when to retake the kursk territory that ukraine has captured in the last 11 days there. not going directly to kursk npp (thus cutting off kursk city from electricity), taking the npp & fortify themselves there, was big failure.
because had they done it, it would be very hard to expell them from that position, because russia would likely not bomb its own npp. simply for risk of nuclear catastrophe, and global outrage, so with taking the npp ukraine would have established a very strong & secure bridgehead + cut the mio souls city of kursk and whole region – with up to 150km surrounding – from electricity. big win then – but no, they didnt do it.
such a move indeed would have put unbearable pressure on pootin, forcing him to relocate troops from donbass region to kursk oblast. but this current situation, with ukraine taking vast swathes of unimportant west-kurskian borderland (mainly west of sudzha) will for sure not have this effect. therefore – apart from some limeted medial & maybe moral boosting effect, i dont see ukr receiving lasting real strategic benefits for the overall war from its current kursk operation.
that is my current analyses of the situation in kursk – maybe you people here can bring up your own thoughts. but for me this is mainly what the situation is. a storm, but not a real big one – in a merely unimportant russian cup of water. having a cup of water occupied by ukraine or even losing that cup of water for several years – will not lead to ru giving up – especially since there is nothing valuable in this border territories which ukr so far managed to capture.
hitting the putin meme hard! any comments on the overall conduct of the ukrainian state in the years since the 2014 us coup in kiev?
for a pro western person he wrote pretty decent. they cant omit the putin meme.
its the same tactic the russians tried at the beginning at it fails in the same way. moving into another front to make the enemy pull troops away from the donetsk frontline. the ukrainians did not pull huge amounts if troops back to defend kiew and the russians are not pulling back a huge amount of troops to defend kursk. sinse diversion was the main goal both offensives have failed.
putin was not caught by surprise, he collaborate with zionists on this kursk bullshit for a percentage.
with the bridges gone, ukraine could manage to hold territory for a while longer. what is otan’s plan to bring in more western troops?
its interesting that ukraine is destoying every russian bridge they can destroy while russia holds back to do the same.
the five eyes are pumping the kursk terror operation hard. one can see with a cursory look at the map that it’s a tiny operation in comparison to the line of contact in donbas, where the russians continue to destroy the ukrainians. but the media accounts are interesting. they continually acknowledge high ukrainian losses and reenforce the silly absurd notion that it’s an independent ukrainian job. it allows the americans an out if the ukrainains are wiped out, blaming krusty.
@clyde your whole narrative is illogical &in fact outright nonsense. you say ukraine is not really fighting, its all the nato & behind it the usa. do you not realize that if usa & nato would have done the kursk op, that then you would not see 12.000 but 450.000 or more troops in kursk (like invasion of iraq or even vietnam).
…usa doesn ot ev en allow ukraine to use the weapons it got from usa.thus your post is merely weeping that ukrainians even with less personal &just sporadic us&eu weapons deliveries managed to surprise &overwhelm ru forces in southern kursk territory.
never said anything like that. stupid and dishonest is no way to go through life, son.
stop lying clyde, here down below you said the things you now try to negate haveing ever said, quote: clyde reply to neural 4 hours ago …the strategic goal remains the same. it is not a ukrainian goal, it is an american goal, …..
it is an american goal, for which they are using ukrainians. you are very, very stupid, and yet that in no way impedes you from spamming sf. congratulations, ihor. you, as a stupid, semi-literate ukretard, claimed that i stated that no ukrainians were fighting. because you’re an idiot. and a ukrainian nationalist idiot, the most retarded kind of idiot.
@clyde i just caught you little wanker lying – and fully red-handed ! that’s the thing you now feel sorry about. good. lying is forbidden for upright godfearing people. but of course people who support communism are anti-christian enemies of god, thus they and you too of course have no problem with lying.
you mean amerikkkunts
the destroyed bridges also contain the ukies from moving deeper into kursk. can you say blunder? this is like caging terrorists making it easier for russians to cleanup mop operation.
ukraine is losing too many expensive equipment in this stupid invsion with no strategic goal
the strategic goal remains the same. it is not a ukrainian goal, it is an american goal, and it is simply the destabilization of the russian state to the point that the nationalist government can be replaced and the country can be broken up upon ethno-religious lines. there are no strategic ukrainian goals considering that they have lost 20% of their territory, perhaps 25% of their population and tens of thousands of dead military personnel since the 2014 coup in kiev.
ha ha, cld nver estmts the amnt of trrtry lost by ukr to r. f.!! memory issues? too much wstn sh*lling?
nb: since the 3 refs in 09 2022 (d.p.r, l.p.r, zp) donbs was legally part of r..f! so, just how much of r.. f. does ukran*zinat* actually *ccupy?
“western shilling” says the little girl relentlessly pounding the putin meme. thanks for derping.
look above, cld, and see yet another of your incoherent bs ‘20% lost territory’ claims that you denied making only hours ago. you can’t admit this even when the lines are in front of you? ha ha!! force of habit, i guess, must cause r.s.i.
you now only have 2 of your 3 bs lines to try and sell, as others realise donbss is r*ssian, and has been since 09 2022. ukr is now the occupier not the occupied!!
supposedly ukranazis want a buffer zone, according to western media.
how appropriate now when ukkies have taken some ground in kursk oblask..now they have the range to hit the nuclear reactors…
no anti-aircraft/antimissile? pantisir, tor and s-400?
slightly obvious who is behind the planning of this operation.
putin is selling out his own people of russia. what a disgraceful scumbag
yes, the cia and rand and mi6 and the economist were right! it’s crucial to get rid of v putin! at least if you want the russian state taken over by atlanticists and then broken up to meet the desires of the united states empire. thanks for derping.
same pro-ptn/anti-rsn people comment again, with the same insult of course. you protested only hours ago that you have ‘never’ defended ptn on these pages yet here it is, lol!! it’s a laugh a comment now, and there’s only 3 (sorry 2) of them. ps: ptn has been at/near the top since 1991. useful to oligarchs, useful to usa, and so very rich. and now they (the west) really want him out after 30 months of weakening r. f’s defences? what are you on?
ukraine shouldn’t have been allowed to mass troops and equipment on their side of the border in the kursk region, this shows russia’s weakness in border security..!!
piss off troll
i would like to know why there are still railways and airports in one piece in western ukraine?
cause russia still thinks they can keep it. but seeing the ukrainian approach in kursk you know that they will blow up everything they cant keep. so if the russians dont blow up the bridges and rail lines in ukraine the ukrainians will do it before they retreat to whatever line of defence.
this whole smo is scripted
winning the battles doesn’t win the war. and when youbdont even understand the basic intentions of the protagonists youre analysis of events isn’t very acccurate you know .
bridge has already been replaced the continued fight against neo nazis from ukraine and nato continues.