Russia claimed on Tuesday that its forces had struck a Ukrainian military airport with high-precision weapons, while Ukraine, on the same day, reported destroying an oil depot of Russia.
The Russian Defense Ministry said in a briefing that on Tuesday morning, the Russian military forces deployed high-precision weaponry and combat drones to conduct a coordinated assault on a Ukrainian military airport and a military factory producing gunpowder for Ukrainian forces. All specified targets were successfully destroyed.
Meanwhile, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said on the same day that the Ukrainian troops launched an attack on a Russian oil depot in the Smolensk region, resulting in a powerful explosion and raging fire at the facility.
The Ukraine side also asserted that the depot had served as a critical supply point for Russian military operations.
Reports from the Ukrainian air force detailed that throughout the year of 2024, Ukrainian forces shot down more than 1,300 various types of Russian missiles, 11,200 attack drones, and 40 Russian military aircraft.
Russia strikes Ukrainian military airport, Ukraine destroys Russian oil depot
The death toll from a landfill collapse in the central Philippine city of Cebu has risen to eight by Monday morning as search and rescue operations continued for another 28 missing people.
The landfill collapse occurred on Thursday as dozens of sanitation workers were working at the site. The disaster has already caused injuries of 18 people.
Family members of the missing people said the rescue progress is slow, and the hope for the survival of their loved ones is fading.
"For me, maybe I’ve accepted the worst result already because the garbage is poisonous and yesterday, it was raining very hard the whole day. Maybe they’ve been poisoned. For us, alive or dead, I hope we can get their bodies out of the garbage rubble," said Maria Kareen Rubin, a family member of a victim.
Families have set up camps on high ground near the landfill, awaiting news of their relatives. Some people at the site said cries for help could still be heard hours after the landfill collapsed, but these voices gradually faded away.
Bienvenido Ranido, who lost his wife in the disaster, said he can't believe all that happened.
"After they gave my wife oxygen, my kids and I were expecting that she would be saved that night because she was still alive. But the night came and till the next morning, they didn't manage to save her," he said.
Death toll in central Philippine landfill collapse rises to eight
