The Russian Armed Forces have taken control of Loknya in the Sumy region, Stupochki and Otradnoye in the Donetsk region

Russian military over the past day captured Loknya in Sumy region, Stupochki and Otradnoe in Donetsk region.

This was reported by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

It is specified that the settlements were taken under control of the Russian army thanks to the actions of units from the "North", "South", and "East" troop groupings.

"Strikes were delivered against a separate special operations forces center, the SBU (Security Service of Ukraine - ed.) aviation center, ammunition depots, as well as temporary deployment points of AFU (Armed Forces of Ukraine - ed.) units and foreign mercenaries in 153 areas," - stated in the ministry's summary.