{"id":878473,"date":"2026-04-07T18:29:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T18:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/878473\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T18:29:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T18:29:24","slug":"british-drones-help-ukrainian-forces-destroy-russian-held-bridge-over-dnipro-in-landmark-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/878473\/","title":{"rendered":"British drones help Ukrainian forces destroy Russian-held bridge over Dnipro in landmark operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:The Independent;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"The Independent\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"271\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ae90c5b0-7c98-11ed-befe-1be805a50c91.png\"\/><\/a>Tue, 7 April 2026 at 6:01 pm UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"w-full h-full object-cover\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/f86e513d7f76e61e90c6b759eaf7cf96.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/british\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:British;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">British<\/a> drones were used by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/ukraine\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ukrainian;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Ukrainian<\/a> forces to destroy a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/russia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Russian;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Russian<\/a>-held bridge in a first-of-its-kind operation.<\/p>\n<p>The strike, which took place last year, targeted a critical bridge in the occupied Kherson region that had been used by Russian forces to transport equipment and supplies.<\/p>\n<p>It was obliterated following a two-month campaign involving repeated strikes by the Malloy T-150 heavy-lift drone. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.co.uk\/news\/ukrainian-troops-fly-cat-dog-160419443.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The unmanned aerial vehicle;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">The unmanned aerial vehicle<\/a> is manufactured by Malloy Aeronautics, a subsidiary of BAE Systems.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine said the mission, which had initially been deemed impossible, was the first known case of a drone-led attack taking down a bridge in combat history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tue, 7 April 2026 at 6:01 pm UTC British drones were used by Ukrainian forces to destroy a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":878474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7654],"tags":[31239,2000,299,248838,248837,150179,657],"class_list":["post-878473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ukraine","tag-drone","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-kherson-region","tag-malloy-aeronautics","tag-russian-forces","tag-ukraine"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116364847907742046","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=878473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}