Russia and Ukraine Trade Strikes on Port and Munitions Plant
Russia says it hit Ukrainian targets at Odesa port; Ukraine reports destroying workshops at a Russian explosives plant in Rostov.
Russia and Ukraine exchanged fresh blows on Monday, with Moscow claiming strikes on Ukrainian military targets at the port of Odesa and Kyiv reporting a successful attack on a Russian factory producing solid rocket fuel.
The Russian Defense Ministry said its forces had captured two settlements in the Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions over the past 24 hours. It also said Russian troops targeted Ukrainian infrastructure, including unmanned vehicle assembly workshops, storage facilities, and temporary deployment points for Ukrainian forces and foreign mercenaries. Attack drones were used to strike Ukrainian patrol boats and several oil tanks in the port of Odesa, the ministry added.
Moscow also reported that its air defense systems had intercepted 12 guided air bombs, two U.S.-made HIMARS rockets, and 797 fixed-wing drones during the same period.
Ukraine's General Staff, in its own daily update, said its forces had struck 12 Russian personnel concentration areas and destroyed 2,093 drones, along with tanks, armored vehicles, and artillery systems.
In a significant overnight operation on Sunday, Ukrainian forces targeted a plant in Russia's Rostov Oblast. The facility, described as a key military-industrial enterprise specializing in solid rocket fuel production, saw two workshops for explosives and gunpowder completely destroyed, with four other workshops sustaining varying degrees of damage.