The Ukrainian army indirectly admitted that the village of New York has fallen under control of the Russian army in Eastern Ukraine, reported DPA, quoted by BTA.
In the summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the settlement is no longer called contested, which is an apparent acknowledgment that it has fallen under Russian control, DPA points out.
Ukrainian military bloggers and Russian Defense Minister Andrey Belousov reported that Russian troops have taken full control of New York.
The industrial city of Toretsk is now under even greater threat from Russian attacks.
The Ukrainian military command reported that fighting continues in Pivnychne and Zalizne, east of Toretsk.
A night attack by a Ukrainian drone yesterday caused a fire at a military base in southern Russia, announced the governor of the Volgograd region, Andrey Bocharov.
He added that air defenses had repulsed most of the drones, but one downed drone crashed and started the fire.
The governor stated that the premises of a military site were affected, without providing further details, DPA said.
Russian military bloggers said the target was the Marinovka air base, located about 45 km from the regional capital Volgograd.
The Russian state news agency TASS reported that air traffic at the civil airport in Volgograd was temporarily restricted yesterday due to the risk of drones.
In Moscow, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that 28 Ukrainian drones were intercepted last night, 13 of which were over the Volgograd region alone.
In recent months, Ukraine has expanded the production of long-range combat drones.
Unmanned aerial vehicles are used in swarms against large infrastructure sites such as oil facilities, but increasingly against military targets as well. Russian military aircraft, ammunition depots and fuel supplies were hit.
But the damage pales in comparison to the destruction caused by Russia's daily missile and drone strikes against Ukraine, which often strike energy infrastructure, civilian sites and civilian homes.
Russian forces yesterday carried out 53 attacks against enemy positions on the Pokrovsk front in eastern Ukraine, as Moscow continues its attempts to capture the strategic city, the Ukrainian army said, Reuters reported, quoted by BTA.. /p>
A statement from the General Staff of the Ukrainian Army said that the capture of the city of Pokrovsk, which Russian forces are steadily closing in on, remains the main focus of Russian efforts in Ukraine.
A Russian military strike killed a 56-year-old man and wounded 8 others in the Kharkiv region in northeastern Ukraine, the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office said, Reuters reported, citing BTA.
A 15-year-old boy is among those injured in a Russian attack on the village of Bohoduhiv.
Residential buildings were also damaged, the prosecutor's office announced.