The Russian army takes control of two new villages in southern Ukraine

Mala Tokmachka is located southeast of the city. Zaporizhia, and its capture poses a threat to the neighboring strategic city of Orekiv.

Rivnopolja is located in the east of Zaporizhia, where Russian forces currently control lands to the north, east and south of the town of Gulyaipol.

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The Russian Ministry of Defense published scenes taken by air from Revnopolja showing Russian soldiers waving Russian flags over several damaged houses in The village.

Russia controls vast areas of Zaporizhya, one of the four Ukrainian regions over which the Kremlin claims sovereignty.

Kiev announced on Sunday the bombing of an oil refinery in the Russian Samara region, a day after it announced the bombing of another refinery in an area near Moscow.

The strategic city of Pokrovsk

The Ukrainian General Staff said that "Units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces bombed the Novokuibyshevke oil refinery"Ukraine often targeted Russian infrastructure during the war.

In the east, the battles aim to control the strategic city of Pokrovsk, which hundreds of Russian soldiers were able to enter in recent weeks, penetrating the Ukrainian defenses.