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On the 17th local time, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated:Ukrainian troops used Western weapons to blow up a bridge over the Seim River in the Glushkovo district of Kursk Oblast and killed volunteers who were trying to evacuate civilians.

Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Source: CCTV News

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zakharova posted on social media that day that "the Kursk region was attacked for the first time by a Western-made rocket launcher, most likely by the United States."Himas’Rocket Launcher。”

Zakharova also said: "As a result of the attack on the Seim River bridge in the Glushkovo area, the bridge was completely destroyed and a number of volunteers who assisted in the evacuation of civilians were killed."

Alexi Smirnov, acting governor of Kursk Oblast, also confirmed that a road bridge over the Seim River in the Glushkovo region was destroyed by an attack by Ukrainian troops.

On the evening of the 16th, the Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Serski, informed Ukrainian President Zelensky that the Ukrainian Armed Forces continued to advance 1 to 3 kilometers in different directions in Kursk Oblast that day, and the fighting on the entire front line was still going on. Serski said that the military control bureau set up by the Ukrainian army in the area has begun to work, and the Ukrainian army's logistics support system is also running smoothly.

According to reports,The Ukrainian army launched an attack on Russia's Kursk Oblast on August 6.Subsequently, fierce conflict broke out between the two sides in the state.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has previously warned that some Western countries' proposal to allow Ukraine to use foreign-supplied weapons to attack targets within Russia is "playing with fire" and will have "serious consequences."

Source: CCTV News, China News Network