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Aug 17, 2024
Kiev [Ukraine], August 17: TASS news agency quoted Russian officials as saying that Ukrainian forces destroyed a bridge over the Seim River in the Glushkovsky district of Kursk province on August 16. The attack cut off the evacuation of residents from part of the district.
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