A Russian investigator said on Monday that Ukraine had struck and damaged a third bridge over the Seym river in Russia’s Kursk region a day earlier, where Moscow’s troops have been battling Kyiv’s forces for nearly two weeks.

“On August 18, as a result of targeted shelling with the use of rocket and artillery weapons against residential buildings and civilian infrastructure in the Karyzh village…a third bridge over the Seym river was damaged,” a representative for Russia’s Investigative Committee said.

Russian forces have been fighting Ukrainian troops in Kursk region since Aug. 6, when thousands of Kyiv’s troops smashed through Russia’s western border in a major embarrassment for the Russian military top brass.

The Russian foreign ministry said on Friday that Ukraine had used Western rockets, likely U.S.-made HIMARS, to destroy a bridge over the Seym river in the Glushkovo district.

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    It’s almost as it the Ukranians are hitting strategically important targets to further their war goals instead of hospitals, daycares, book printing factories, coffee shops and DIY centers.

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      No no, haven’t you heard? They targeted the playground, missed, and hit a strategically key bridge. Russia wouldn’t lie to us now, would it?

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      Battle of survival vs bombing to terrorize.

      Kind of explains the differing mindsets of the leadership in each nation.

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      But how can they win this war if they don’t hit civilian? Nobody win a war like that! (/s)

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      It’s funny how strategic targets magically become ‘strategically important’ only when it’s convenient for Russia, but when Ukraine does it, suddenly everything is just hospitals and coffee shops, right?