Russia said on Friday that its forces had taken control of five settlements, while Ukraine on the same day reported intercepting multiple Russian missiles over the past day.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, Russian forces had launched one massive strike and four coordinated group strikes against Ukraine over the past week, with the targets including Ukrainian military-industrial enterprises, as well as its energy, transport, airfield and port infrastructure.
It added that ammunition and fuel depots, drone sites, and temporary deployment points of Ukrainian armed forces and foreign mercenaries were also hit.
Russian forces had taken control of five settlements during the week, the ministry said, adding that its air defense systems had shot down 21 guided aerial bombs, 14 U.S.-made HIMARS rockets, five long-range guided Neptune missiles, and 1,327 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
On the same day, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said that a total of 97 battles took place on the front line as of Friday afternoon, of which 27 occurred in the direction of Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk). The Ukrainian forces repelled multiple Russian attacks.
In addition, the Ukrainian air force intercepted and interfered with multiple Russian drones, ballistic missiles and cruise missiles on Thursday evening.
Late at night on Friday, multiple explosions were heard in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. Previously, Kyiv had sounded air raid sirens.
Russia reports controlling multiple settlements as Ukraine claims intercepting Russian missiles
Several regions in southern Iran's Hormozgan province were attacked on Sunday evening, with one person killed and two others wounded on Farur Island, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported.
Citing an informed source, Tasnim reported all victims were with the province's telecommunications company.
Earlier, the semi-official Fars news agency reported that explosions were heard Sunday evening in the port city of Bandar Abbas and Qeshm Island, both in Hormozgan.
The explosion sounds came from east of Bandar Abbas and Mesen village south of Qeshm Island, it added.
Meanwhile, Iran's official news agency IRNA cited Qeshm Governor Hossein Amir-Teymouri as saying that 10 to 11 "enemy" projectiles had hit the island.
Amir-Teymouri added that only military targets had been struck, with no casualties caused, IRNA reported.
U.S. media reported Sunday that American forces had carried out several strikes on Iranian missile and air defense systems and had also targeted small speedboats belonging to Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) at several locations around the Strait of Hormuz.
The U.S. Central Command said on X that its forces began launching more strikes against Iran "to continue degrading their ability to attack civilian mariners and commercial ships freely transiting the Strait of Hormuz."
Earlier the day, in response to fresh attacks by the United States, the IRGC launched counterattacks against American assets in the region, targeting a U.S. air base in Jordan, Patriot air defense systems in Kuwait, U.S. military communications and radar stations in Bahrain, and the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar.
1 killed, 2 wounded in latest attacks on southern Iran: media
