At least five people were wounded in Ukraine on Sunday by Russian strikes, local officials said, as the two countries exchanged drone strikes, rockets and shelling.
Along the front line in the east, Russia said it had taken control of two villages, one in Kharkiv region and one in Luhansk region.
Kiev has not yet commented, but local officials said on Sunday morning three people were wounded by Russian drone strikes in southern Ukraine’s partially occupied Kherson region.
In the country’s northeast, officials in the Kharkiv region said two people were injured when a village was hit by Russian shells.
Ukraine’s air force reportedly shot down 35 of the 39 Iranian-made Shahed drones that Russia launched overnight.
The air force also said Russia fired three Iskander-M ballistic missiles and two cruise missiles.
They claimed the cruise missiles missed their targets because of Ukraine’s “countermeasures,” but did not mention what the Iskander-M missiles hit or whether any damage was caused.
No casualties have been reported, Euronews.com writes.
Russian forces reportedly regularly attack civilian areas across Ukraine, but their attacks on Ukraine’s energy grid have intensified in recent months.
This has reportedly resulted in severe damage to many power facilities and forced Ukraine to impose long blackouts.
Ukrainian authorities said Russian forces launched their attacks in three locations, including Russia’s Kursk region, Primorsko-Akhtarsk – a city in Krasnodar Krai on the coast of the Sea of Azov, and occupied Crimea.
