Russia’s glide bombs devastating Ukraine’s cities on the cheap

Russia is increasingly using “glide bombs” – cheap but highly destructive ordnance – to advance its offensive in Ukraine.

More than 200 of them are thought to have been used in just a week to pound Ukraine’s northern town of Vovchansk during Russia’s current cross-border advance near Kharkiv.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said 3,000 such bombs were dropped on the country in March alone.

Vovchansk police chief Oleksii Kharkivsky has seen the impact of glide bombs up close.

“There are no words to describe the aftermath of a glide bomb attack,” he says. “You arrive to see people who are lying there, torn apart.”

Read more: BBC News