occupied territories

Ukrainian Defense Forces struck a Russian oil depot in Voronezh Oblast and multiple military targets on temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories overnight into Wednesday, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.

Russia, in negotiations with the United States in Saudi Arabia, demands full control over the Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson oblasts of Ukraine, despite the fact that it has not been able to occupy part of these lands, The Moscow Times writes, citing its own sources familiar with the matter.

Seven boys aged 3 to 17 were returned from the temporarily occupied east bank of Kherson Oblast, as reported by the regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin.