Russia reported on Saturday that its forces have taken control of the settlement of Shevchenko in eastern Ukraine's Kharkov region, while Ukraine on the same day claimed strikes against multiple Russian targets.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said in its daily report that its troops gained control of Ukraine's settlement of Shevchenko and struck 153 areas across Ukraine, targeting facilities for the production, storage, and sites for launching long-range drones, fuel, transport and port infrastructure used by Ukrainian forces, and temporary deployment points of the Ukrainian armed forces and foreign mercenaries.
Also according to the ministry, Russia's air defense systems shot down or destroyed 13 guided aerial bombs, four HIMARS rockets, and 911 fixed-wing drones.
Russian air defense forces downed 339 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) over a 13-hour period, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement on Saturday.
The drones were shot down over more than a dozen regions including the Moscow region, as well as over the waters of the Black Sea, it added.
On the same day, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said that Ukrainian forces had struck targets including Russian troop concentration areas, drone control points, and artillery systems.
Also on Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukrainian drones had reached Russia's St. Petersburg, striking a Russian naval arsenal and the military base in Kronstadt. In addition, Ukrainian drones hit an oil storage facility in southern Russia's Krasnodar region.
He said that Ukrainian forces had carried out drone strikes on multiple locations inside Russia, targeting arsenals, military bases, and oil storage facilities.
Russia claims taking control of Ukrainian settlement, Ukraine reports striking multiple Russian targets
The China Public Relations Association on Thursday hosted an event in Beijing where experts shared insights into the history of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and discussed its contributions to the development of China and the wider world.
Thursday marks the 105th anniversary of the First National Congress of the CPC, the meeting that officially marked the Party's founding.
On that date in 1921, thirteen delegates, including Mao Zedong and Dong Biwu, attended the congress in Shanghai.
How China achieved success in its poverty alleviation campaign was a topic of widespread interest among Chinese and foreign journalists at the event.
An expert from the Party School of the CPC Central Committee said that the success of the campaign was due to the country's unique institutional strengths.
The country dispatched a total of 255,000 village-based work teams and more than 3 million officials nationwide to work on the front lines of poverty reduction.
At the same time, the central government formulated a series of scientific and well targeted poverty elimination policies.
''By adhering to the development-oriented poverty alleviation policy and taking development as the fundamental solution to poverty, we have worked on improving the conditions for development and achieved a shift in poverty reduction from the model mainly relying on external support to a self-sustaining model. Another example is that our central, provincial, municipal, and county governments have cumulatively allocated nearly 1.6 trillion yuan (nearly 236.5 billion U.S. dollars) in special fiscal funds for poverty alleviation, while coordinating and comprehensively utilizing fiscal funds related to agriculture to ensure that resources are directed where they are most needed,'' said Zheng Huan, a professor of the Party School of the CPC Central Committee.
Wang Yi, deputy director with the Department of CPC History of the Party School of the CPC Central Committee, said China's development philosophy aligns with the broad needs of the international community.
"China's people-centered development philosophy, the idea that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets, the community with a shared future for mankind, and the four global initiatives, these are all concepts that promote goodness and progress. I think they can resonate with anyone, as there is no one who could not be drawn to such a beautiful vision," she said at the event.
Event held in Beijing to discuss history, global contributions of CPC
