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Artillery fire has blown chunks out of a statue of Lenin that stands in Russian town of Sudzha, where Volodymyr Zelensky’s troops now have full control.
Kyiv has destroyed a key bridge over the Seym river during its incursion into Russia’s Kursk region, as Vladimir Putin was forced to redeploy more troops to respond.
Videos shared on social media showed the bridge near Glushkovo collapsing, cutting off part of the local district and an important route used by Russia to send critical supplies for its invasion of Ukraine.
Ukrainian forces have now advanced up to 15 miles into Russia’s Kursk region, the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) said.
Russia’s defensive lines in Kursk were “not prepared to respond to a multi-battalion assault force,” according to the MoD. Ukrainian troops have left a “trail of destruction” in their wake, according to journalists who ventured into occupied Russia on Friday.
Artillery fire has blown chunks out of a statue of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin that stands in the town of Sudzha, which is now occupied by Ukrainian forces. Buildings were pockmarked with bullet holes and the streets, which were strewn with debris, were mainly empty as residents retreated to basements.
Using British tanks, Ukraine has taken hundreds of square miles of Russia’s Kursk region since launching their audacious incursion on 6 August.
The German government will stop new military aid to Ukraine as part of a plan to cut spending, a local newspaper reported on Saturday.
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) reported that this decision will affect new requests for funding, not previously approved aid. The moratorium on new assistance is already in effect, the paper reported.
Germany’s finance minister Christian Lindner reportedly said that future funding would no longer come from Germany’s federal budget but from proceeds from frozen Russian assets.
While a preliminary deal has been struck to use some of the frozen Russian sovereign assets to support Ukraine, G7 governments have yet to agree on the details of the scheme.
The independent news uk