Russia says it hit Ukrainian military sites in Donbass and Mykolaiv region

Russian forces destroyed five Ukrainian army command posts in the Donbass and in the Mykolaiv region with high-precision weapons and also struck three storage sites in the Zaporizhia region, the defence ministry has been quoted as saying.

The ministry, cited by Russian news agencies, also said the Russian air force had struck a Ukrainian weapons and equipment base at a tractor factory in Kharkiv, in northeast Ukraine.