The battles continued in Ukraine and the mutual bombing between the two warring parties along the front in the east and south of the country, while Britain announced that it would provide Kyiv with high-precision missiles.
While the Russian side focused on what is happening in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, the Ukrainian army talked about the Russian bombing that targeted Kherson and areas on the bank of the Dnipro River in the center of the country, and against the Ukrainian infrastructure sites.
Kyiv confirmed the continuation of hitting the Russian supply lines between the Crimea and their locations on the bank of the Dnipro River in Kherson, noting that 100 Russian soldiers were wounded, and dozens of pieces of equipment and mechanisms were destroyed.
Russia announces the death of hundreds of fighters
As for the Russian Ministry of Defense, it said that the Russian forces repelled Ukrainian attacks on the Donetsk and Luhansk axes, and killed about 70 Ukrainian soldiers, according to it.
She also talked about the killing of 210 of what she called Ukrainian nationalists, and 100 foreign mercenaries within 24 hours.
And the pro-Russian Donetsk forces broadcasted pictures of what they said was targeting Ukrainian soldiers who tried to storm Russian sites.
The clips show the monitoring and targeting of a group of Ukrainian forces, which attempted to storm Russian sites in an unspecified location in the region.
For his part, the governor of the Ukrainian province of Donetsk, Sergei Gaidai, said that 5 civilians were killed and 4 wounded in Russian bombing that targeted cities and towns in the province during the past 24 hours.
For its part, the pro-Russian Donetsk authorities said that Ukrainian artillery shelling targeted residential buildings in the neighborhoods of Makeyevka, Kievsky, Petrovsky, and Krasno-Gorovik, in the city center of Donetsk;
As a result, a number of residential buildings were damaged.
The district authorities described the bombing as a terrorist act, carried out by units of the Ukrainian Nazis, as they put it.
In Kherson, in southern Ukraine, Ukrainian forces reported that a civilian was killed and others wounded in Russian bombing of the area, adding that the Russian army bombed the area 54 times during the last hours.
The Ukrainian army also reported intensive Russian bombardment targeting the infrastructure in "Kryvyi Rih" in the Dnipro province in central-southern Ukraine, in addition to the suburbs of Zaporizhia being bombed with missiles, without causing any casualties.
British missiles to Ukraine
On the other hand, the British Ministry of Defense announced on its official Twitter account that the United Kingdom provided the Ukrainian armed forces with high-precision "Brimstone-2" air-to-surface missiles, as part of its military aid package to Ukraine. Aid played a decisive role in blocking the Russian advance.
On February 24, Russia launched what it described as a military operation in Ukraine, followed by international rejection and economic sanctions on Moscow, which requires Kyiv to abandon plans to join military entities to end its operation, which the latter considers an interference in its sovereignty.