Ukraine hits second key bridge as continues incursion into Russia’s Kursk

Stating the incursion’s aims for the first time, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine needs border ‘buffer zone’.

Ukraine says it has destroyed a second bridge across the River Seym which winds through Russia’s Kursk region.

It is the second attack on a bridge in the region in a matter of days and comes as Ukraine presses a cross-border offensive that began on August 6.

On Friday, it said it had struck a bridge in the Russian town of Glushkovo.

“Minus one more bridge,” Ukrainian Air Force Commander Mykola Oleshchuk wrote on Telegram on Sunday, publishing an aerial video of a blast tearing through the bridge near the Russian town of Zvannoye.

He said the attacks were designed to disrupt Russian supply lines.