British News Agency

According to CCTV, as mutual attacks between Russia and Ukraine continued, both sides issued statements regarding the military operations they conducted over the past 24 hours.

Russia's Ministry of Defense announced that the Russian military used long-range precision ground-based weapons to strike military-industrial facilities used for the production and storage of Ukraine's medium- and long-range unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The statement also said that the infrastructure of several ports in the Odesa region was hit.

The ministry added that Russian forces had taken control of a settlement in Ukraine's northeastern Sumy region over the past day and continued operations against Ukrainian targets on various fronts. Russia's air defense systems were also reported to have shot down 41 fixed-wing Ukrainian UAVs.

Meanwhile, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced that 261 combat engagements had taken place along the front line over the past 24 hours. According to the statement, the Ukrainian Air Force carried out airstrikes on two areas where Russian forces were concentrated.

The Ukrainian military stated that it had repelled numerous Russian attacks, particularly in the Pokrovsk, Oleksandrivsk and Lyman directions on the eastern front, while reporting that no Russian offensive was recorded in the Kupyansk direction during the past 24 hours.