The Russian Defense Ministry announced on Saturday that its forces had captured two more villages in eastern Ukraine, including one in the Dnipropetrovsk region, where Moscow claims its army has begun to advance, Reuters reported, quoted by BTA.
So far, the Ukrainian army has not confirmed that the villages have fallen into Russian hands, but it has reported heavy fighting.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, assessing the situation along the 1,000-kilometer front, said that the Pokrovsk logistics center remained at the center of the fighting.
He reported that Ukrainian forces had taken “successful actions“ in Sumy region, where Russian forces have established a foothold in recent weeks.
Fall debris from destroyed Ukrainian drones has caused power outages on the railway network in Russia's Volgograd region, the regional administration said early on Monday, as quoted by Reuters.
A post by the administration on Telegram quoted Governor Andrei Bochanov as saying no one was injured in the attack.
The Russian aviation authority Rosaviatsia said on Telegram that it had canceled flights at Volgograd airport shortly after midnight.
The extent of the attack and the damage caused by it is not yet known. Several regions in western and southern Russia have been put on air alert due to Ukrainian drone attacks, regional officials said on Telegram.