Ukraine's Defense Forces destroyed two road bridges in Russia's Belgorod Oblast that fed a Russian army supply route toward the Kupiansk front, the Ukrainian military news outlet Militarnyi reported. Both crossings spanned the Urayeva River in the Valuysky district near the border. Russian authorities responded by closing a section of the road for nearly a month.
Two bridges over one river in one day
The Belgorod-focused Telegram channel Pepel Belgorod reported the first destroyed crossing on 7 July. That bridge stood at the village of Kolykhalino, and a missile strike reportedly brought it down. The road over it led to the Russian border town of Urazovo and a cluster of border villages, including Dvoluchnoye, Zherdevka, Mirnoye, and Berezhanka.
Later the same day, eyewitness videos showed a second wrecked bridge over the same river, between Urazovo and the border village of Dvoluchnoye. Local residents believe an aviation bomb may have hit it.
The published footage shows severe destruction. The central span collapsed on one bridge. The other lost its road surface and suffered damage to load-bearing structures. Neither can carry vehicle traffic in its current state. Ukrainian aviation dropped two other Belgorod Oblast bridges serving Russian military movements back in March 2025.
Route fed Russia's Kupiansk grouping
Russian occupation forces used this route to move equipment, ammunition, and personnel toward the Kupiansk direction, the channel said. The road ran through the Logachyovka border crossing, which the Russian army used to supply its units on the occupied territory of Kharkiv Oblast.
Kupiansk remains one of the war's flashpoints. Ukrainian forces cleared the city of encircled Russian troops, yet Russia keeps pressing the area with infiltration attempts, including through disused gas pipelines.
Month-long road closure
After the reports about the bridges, Belgorod Oblast's transport ministry restricted movement on the Valuyki–Urazovo–Logachyovka road section. Driving and parking on that stretch are banned from 7 July to 5 August. With both crossings down, only two paved roads and several dirt tracks now lead into Urazovo, the channel noted.
The bridge strikes came the same night fire engulfed Belgorod's linear production facility of main gas pipelines after a missile strike, Militarnyi wrote earlier. That enterprise runs gas transport lines and supplies natural gas to the city and the region.
