Russia bombed the Ukrainian capital Kyiv for the first time since last April, and Ukraine intensified its bombing of the city of Donetsk, which is under the control of separatists, and the armies of the two countries talked about shooting down planes.
And the Russian Defense Ministry announced that its forces had destroyed tanks in Kyiv that Ukraine had received from European countries.
On the other hand, the Ukrainian Air Force Command said that its air defenses destroyed a Russian missile in the sky of the capital, stressing that the Russian army launched several missiles on Sunday morning towards Kyiv from the Caspian Sea.
The pro-Russian separatist Donetsk authorities said that 5 civilians were killed and 24 wounded in Ukrainian artillery shelling targeting civilian targets in 9 downtown areas, during the past 24 hours.
The separatist authorities said in a statement that the total number of shells that targeted the city of Donetsk amounted to 680, causing damage to 47 residential buildings.
The separatist authorities added that the use of heavy artillery towards residential areas and infrastructure had become more frequent.
A woman was also killed and another wounded in a bombing by Russian forces on a residential neighborhood in the Drushkovka suburb, east of the city of Kramtorsk, Donetsk Province.
Two factories in Kramatorsk were damaged after being hit by a missile attack.
According to the Ukrainian joint forces, the number of Ukrainian civilians killed in the Russian bombings of 30 cities and villages in different regions of Donetsk and Lugansk regions during the past 24 hours is 10.
Meanwhile, the governor of Lugansk region, Sergey Gaidai, said on social media that "our armed forces have cleared half of the city of Severodonetsk" from Russian forces.
On Saturday, the Russian army announced that Ukrainian military units were withdrawing from Severodonetsk, but its mayor, Oleksandr Stryuk, confirmed that Ukrainian forces were fighting to retake the city.
shoot down planes
In Moscow, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said that Russian forces had shot down a Ukrainian MiG-29 warplane, stressing that the Russian air defense had also shot down a Ukrainian military transport plane in the vicinity of Odessa, which was transporting weapons and military equipment.
More than 350 Ukrainian soldiers have also been neutralized, according to the Russian spokesman.
On the other hand, the Ukrainian authorities published pictures that they said were of the downing of a Russian Sukhoi-25 aircraft in the Orikhiv region, south of Zaporozhye, in southeastern Ukraine.
The authorities added that their forces also targeted a center for Russian forces containing Russian vehicles and armored vehicles in the Zaporozhye region.
political developments
On the political front, RIA Novosti quoted a spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry as saying that the countries surrounding the Republic of Serbia had closed the airspace to a plane carrying Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, which was bound for the capital, Belgrade.
The Serbian newspaper, Danas, quoted informed sources as saying that Montenegro, North Macedonia and Hungary had prevented a plane carrying the Russian Foreign Minister on its way to Belgrade.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that his country's forces would bomb targets in Ukraine that they had not targeted before, if Washington provided Kyiv with long-range missiles.
Putin added - in a statement to Russian media - that the United States is providing Ukraine with missile launchers to compensate for its military losses, but this does not fundamentally change the situation, as he put it.
cultural aspect
The municipality of Kharkiv, eastern Ukraine, has begun to change the names of about 500 streets associated with Russian personalities and cities, in response to the Russian war on Ukraine, and in an attempt to give Ukrainian national names to the city's streets and landmarks.
Some Ukrainians also consider Russian forces' bombing of archaeological sites as part of Moscow's attempt to obliterate their identity and nationalism.