Russia and Ukraine reported intensified military operations and heavy fighting on Sunday, as Russian forces targeted Ukrainian energy infrastructure and Ukrainian troops repelled numerous attacks.
The Russian Defense Ministry announced a series of strikes across several fronts, including Sumy, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, and Zaporizhzhia. Its forces targeted energy infrastructure and production facilities used by Ukraine's defense industry complex, as well as storage and launch sites for long-range drones, and temporary deployment points for Ukrainian troops and foreign mercenaries.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported on Sunday that 127 combat engagements occurred along the front lines during the previous day. Ukrainian forces launched strikes on Russian personnel and equipment concentrations using air force, missile, and artillery units. Ukrainian defenses successfully repelled 44 Russian attacks in the Pokrovsk direction.
Russia hits Ukraine's energy sites, Ukraine repels numerous attacks
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
