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ARTICLE VIEW:
Ukraine blows up two key Russian bridges using Moscow’s own mines and
$600 drones
By Svitlana Vlasova, Ivana Kottasová, CNN
Updated:
10:03 AM EDT, Fri August 29, 2025
Source: CNN
Ukraine has said it destroyed two bridges inside Russia by using a
couple of cheap drones to hit stashes of mines and ammunition hidden
there by Russian forces.
The Ukrainian military said the two bridges near the border with
Ukraine’s Kharkiv region were being used by the Russian military to
resupply their troops.
Because of their strategic importance, the bridges were mined – so
that the Russian military had the option of blowing them up in case of
a sudden Ukrainian advance.
It is not unusual for an army under attack to destroy bridges, roads
and other key infrastructure on its own territory to prevent the enemy
from advancing. Ukraine did this in the early days of the full-scale
invasion in February 2022, destroying bridges on roads leading towards
Kyiv. The move delayed the Russian advance and protected the Ukrainian
capital.
In the case of the two bridges in Russia, the Ukrainian military found
out about the stashes of mines and used it to its own advantage.
Ukraine’s 58th Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade, which conducted
the operation, told CNN that they decided have a closer look at the
bridge after noticing unusual activity around it.
“It became clear that something was going on there. We couldn’t fly
a regular reconnaissance drone under the bridge because the signal
would simply disappear, so we flew in with a first-person-view drone
equipped with fiber optics,” a representative of the brigade told
CNN.
A video filmed by the drone shows it approaching the bridge and
discovering a large pile of anti-tank mines and other ammunition. A
piece of fabric that appears to have been covering the stash is seen
lying to the side.
“We saw the mines, and we struck,” they added.
The video ends abruptly when the drone hits the stash. Footage filmed
by a second camera from some distance shows a large explosion. CNN has
geolocated the bridge seen in the video to the Belgorod region in
southern Russia, near the border with Ukraine.
“After that, we decided to check the other bridge. We found it was
also mined and we struck,” the brigade representative said, adding:
“(We) saw an opportunity and took it.”
The bridges’ destruction – and the daring way Ukraine achieved it
– is a rare piece of good news for Kyiv.
Ukraine is facing a tough situation along the frontlines as Russian
troops continue to inch forward as Russian President Vladimir Putin
continues to delay any ceasefire talks.
At the same time, Moscow keeps terrorizing Ukraine’s civilian
population with near daily deadly aerial attacks against cities across
the country.
Russia did not comment on the attacks against the bridges.
Cheap drones prove their value
The drones used in the attack costs between 25,000 and 30,000 Ukrainian
hryvnas, or between $600 to $725, the brigade representative told CNN.
That makes the two attacks extremely cost-effective. Taking down a
bridge from afar is not an easy undertaking. Under normal
circumstances, it would require expensive guided munitions delivered by
a sophisticated system such as a missile launcher or plane.
Ukraine has previously said it used the Western-supplied High Mobility
Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) to blow up bridges in Russia’s Kursk
region. These are pricey weapons – when Germany purchased three
HIMARS launchers for Ukraine from the United States last year, it paid
. Each missile costs tens of thousands of dollars.
But the bridge attacks were not the first time that Ukraine used small
and relatively cheap first-person-view drones for maximum effect.
In June, Ukrainian forces destroyed or damaged dozens of Russian
aircraft using in trucks.
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