🔥 Destruction

Video purportedly showed Ukrainian forces blowing up the bridge from Sviatihirsk across the Siviersky Donets River.

June 8, 2022 Sviatihirsk, Donetsk

Verified Independently confirmed by 5 sources

Stefan Korshak (Substack) Ukrainska Pravda Kyiv Independent UNIAN Censor.NET

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Source Reports

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Stefan Korshak (Substack) → Source tone: likely

Video purportedly showed Ukrainian forces blowing up the bridge from Sviatihirsk across the Siviersky Donets River.

Ukrainska Pravda → Source tone: certain

Ukrainian troops have successfully repulsed Russian troops' attempts to improve tactical positions in relation to the city of Sloviansk.

Kyiv Independent → Source tone: certain

On June 8, a Russian airstrike hit Sloviansk.

UNIAN → Source tone: certain

Ukrainian forces repelled seven attacks by occupiers on the Donbas frontline in one day.

Censor.NET → Source tone: certain

In the Bakhmut direction, the enemy increased the intensity of the use of operational-tactical and army aircraft... struck Ka-52 helicopters in the areas of Pokrovske, Vidrodzhennya, and Yakovlivka.

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Extracted: 2026-05-30T04:15:30.531Z

Source story: day-105-2023-02-11