Typhoon Bavi, the ninth typhoon of the year, made two powerful landfalls on the coast of east China's Zhejiang Province within less than one hour on late Saturday night and early Sunday morning, bringing fierce winds and torrential rain.
The typhoon, with the maximum wind force at its center reaching 40 meters per second when landing, first churned ashore at Yuhuan City, a county-level city administered by the city of Taizhou, before making a second landfall in Yueqing City under the city of Wenzhou at around midnight Sunday.
After the landfalls, the typhoon is expected to continue moving northwestward while weakening.
In both Yuhuan City and Yueqing City, where the typhoon landed, trees were caused to sway violently and water levels rose rapidly. Local authorities have mobilized emergency response teams and remain on high alert for flash floods, urban waterlogging, and geological disasters such as landslides and rockfalls.
As of 14:00, Zhejiang had evacuated over 2.21 million residents to safe locations.
Typhoon Bavi makes two landfalls in east China's Zhejiang with torrential rains
Russia said on Saturday its forces had struck Ukrainian military-industrial enterprises and multiple ports, while Ukraine reported attacks on Russian troop concentration areas over the past 24 hours.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said in its latest report that early on Saturday, its forces had used ground-based long-range precision weapons to strike Ukrainian military-industrial enterprises in Kiev involved in the production and storage of medium- and long-range drones, as well as infrastructure at multiple ports in the Odesa region.
Over the past day, Russian forces have taken control of a settlement in the Sumy region in northeastern Ukraine and struck Ukrainian targets in multiple other areas. In addition, Russian air defense forces intercepted and destroyed 41 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones.
The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported 261 combat engagements on the front over the past day, with air forces striking two areas where Russian troops were concentrated.
Ukrainian forces repelled dozens of attacks in the Pokrovsk, Oleksandrivsk and Lyman directions in eastern Ukraine, while no Russian offensive operations were reported in the Kupyansk direction in eastern Ukraine.
Russia, Ukraine report mutual strikes on each other's military targets
