Russia said on Sunday that its force had captured three more settlements from Ukraine, while, Ukraine, on the same day, reported 162 battles in the frontlines.
The Russian Defense Ministry said in its latest report that over the past 24 hours, the Russian forces struck Ukrainian targets in 148 areas and took control of three settlements, namely Petrovskoye in Donetsk region, and Tikhoye and Otradnoye in Dnepropetrovsk region.
In Krasnoarmeysk (known as Pokrovsk in Ukraine), the Russian assault groups of the 2nd Army continued to strike the besieged Ukrainian forces in the central district, the miners' district and the western industrial area, the ministry said.
Also on Sunday, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported a total of 162 combat clashes between Russian and Ukrainian forces over the past day.
The Ukrainian air force, missile troops and artillery force struck two Russian concentration areas of personnel, weapons, and military equipment. In addition, there were 19 combat clashes in the Northern Slobozhanshcyna and Kursk sectors, the Ukrainian side said.
The Ukrainian East Group of Forces said on Saturday that they continued defensive operations in the Pokrovsk-Myrnohrad agglomeration and successfully repelled multiple Russian attacks.
Russia captures three more Ukrainian settlements, Ukraine reports 162 battles in frontlines
China's steel industry has achieved intensive breakthroughs in high-end precision materials since the beginning of this year, with a batch of advanced specialty steels empowering frontier industries including electronics, new energy and high-end equipment.
In the mobile communication era of 4G, the thickness required for an ultra-thin low-carbon steel foil is 0.12 mm to enable convenient and speedy signal transmission.
Such a demanding requirement is tightened to a mere 0.10 mm in today's 5G new era, which means more complicated techniques for its manufacturers.
For a long time, the rolling methods relied heavily on foreign enterprises. However, Shougang Group teamed up with the University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB) in 2013 to conduct scientific research and development on the continuous rolling process of "5G steel," a nickname of the ultra-thin low-carbon steel foil.
The "5G steel" that independently developed by China - as thin as 0.07 mm - has entered mass production and been widely used for 5G base station signal receivers, signal transmission filters, and integrated circuit boards, and new energy battery connection pieces.
"Although it's thin, it has excellent toughness and feels like paper, and we can easily bend it and repeatedly fold it," said Hu Na, an engineer at Shougang Jingtang Steel United Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. She folded the steel into a classic "paper plane" to show its flexibility.
This year, China has been using specialty steels to empower the development of new quality productive forces.
For instance, in industrial sector, China has continued to push performance limits of silicon steel -- an iron-silicon alloy used primarily in electrical applications due to its good magnetic properties, with 0.1-millimeter-grade non-oriented electrical steel achieving global top-tier status in electrical steel iron loss indicators.
The material now is widely used in drive motors for new energy vehicles and joint motors for humanoid robots.
The breakthroughs came as China's steel industry continues to shift toward higher value-added products, with the manufacturing sector's share of steel consumption surpassing that of the construction sector for the first time in 2025.
China makes intensive breakthroughs in high-end steel products in 2026
