Russia’s Defense Ministry on Saturday claimed that it has taken control of two more settlements in Ukraine’s Donetsk region. Areas held by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Donbas region were targeted, and the Russian army has seized several key positions, according to a ministry statement.

The Ukrainian Defense Forces destroyed a Russian storage facility for thermobaric ammunition. It happened on the night of February 28 on the temporarily occupied territory of Donetsk region, General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine says.

The overnight Ukrainian attack in Donetsk Oblast may have hindered Russia's ability to continue fighting in the war.

The strike on the facility comes hours before a meeting between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday.

Successful attack by Kyiv. During the night, the Ukrainian Defense Forces destroyed a warehouse storing thermobaric missiles owned by Russia. This explosion occurred in the temporarily occupied territories of the Donetsk region.

Ukrainian forces destroyed a thermobaric munitions depot in Russian-occupied territory of Donetsk Oblast overnight on Feb. 28, the General Staff reported in a post on Telegram. The post was accompanied by a video of the strike near the town of Selydove in the embattled Pokrovsk district — an initial explosion is followed by a spectacular series of