Overview

• Ukraine’s 58th Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade said it destroyed two bridges in Russia’s Belgorod region near the Kharkiv border.
• Operators used fiber‑optic first-person-view drones to navigate under the spans in a jammed environment and trigger the explosives stored there.
• The unit said each drone cost roughly 25,000–30,000 hryvnias ($600–$725), underscoring a low-cost alternative to guided munitions typically used against bridges.
• Drone videos released by the brigade show mines and subsequent blasts, which CNN geolocated to Belgorod, while Russian authorities had not commented at publication.
• Kyiv presented the strikes as a logistics setback for Moscow and an example of its growing use of improvised drones following earlier operations against Russian aircraft.