Russia said on Monday that its forces had captured another settlement in eastern Donetsk region, while Ukraine, on the same day, reported active defense and gains on all fronts.
Russia's Ministry of Defense said in its latest briefing that over the past 24 hours, its armed forces continued to launch strikes on the Ukrainian military in multiple directions, including Sumy, Kharkiv and Donetsk.
Russian air forces, attack drones, missile forces and artillery units destroyed Ukrainian long-range drone assembly and storage sites, ammunition depots, and temporary deployment sites of Ukrainian armed formations and foreign mercenaries, the ministry said.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on the same day that 137 clashes took place in frontline areas in the past 24 hours, with Ukrainian troops conducting active defense and achieving positive results on all fronts.
Also on Monday, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported that its military launched a long-range drone attack on the Arzamas Instrument-Building Plant in Russia's Nizhny Novgorod, an essential military-industrial facility supplying components for cruise missiles.
Russia captures another settlement in Donetsk, Ukraine reports active frontline defense
China and Canada should work together to promote the stable, healthy and sustainable development of bilateral economic and trade relations, Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng said in Beijing on Friday.
He, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the remarks while attending the Canada-China Trade and Investment Banquet together with the visiting Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.
Speaking at the event, He said that under the strategic guidance of the important consensus reached by their leaders, China and Canada should adhere to the principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, win-win cooperation, and mutual success, and jointly promote the stable, healthy, and sustainable development of bilateral economic and trade relations.
China is steadfastly expanding high-standard opening up, continuously developing new quality productive forces, and is willing to work with countries around the world, including Canada, to create new prospects for cooperation, said He.
Carney noted at the banquet that China is Canada's second-largest trading partner and said Canada looks forward to strengthening high-level exchanges with China, making full use of dialogue mechanisms in areas such as the economy and trade, and deepening cooperation in trade, agriculture, energy and other fields.
Carney arrived in Beijing on Wednesday to begin a four-day official visit to China, marking the first trip to the country by a Canadian prime minister in eight years.
China, Canada should work together for stable, healthy, sustainable economic ties: Vice Premier
