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Russia said on Friday that its forces carried out six mass strikes on Ukrainian military targets with long-range precision weapons across air, sea, and land domains, as well as attack drones, while Ukraine reported that its military struck four Russian troop concentration areas.

The Russian Ministry of Defense said in a daily war report that strikes were carried out against Ukraine's military-industrial complex facilities, fuel, energy, and transport infrastructure used by Ukrainian forces, as well as military airfields.

Over the past week, Russia's air defense systems intercepted and shot down 50 Ukrainian guided aerial bombs, eight HIMARS rockets, and 2,464 fixed-wing drones. In addition, Russian forces captured two settlements in the Kharkiv and Donetsk directions.

Meanwhile, Ukraine's General Staff of the Armed Forces said in an operational update that 194 combat engagements occurred along the front lines over the past day. Ukrainian forces repelled 36 Russian attacks in the Pokrovsk direction in Donetsk and fended off multiple Russian offensives in the Oleksandrivsk direction in Luhansk.

Ukraine claimed to have destroyed 1,175 Russian drones, multiple tanks and armored vehicles, and several artillery and air defense systems.

Intense fighting between Russia and Ukraine in the Donbas region continued. Russia's Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov announced that its forces had fully taken control of the Luhansk region and would continue to advance military operations in the Donetsk region.

However, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday rejected Russia's claim of full control over Luhansk. Zelenskyy said that since the start of this year, Ukraine has restored its position on more square kilometers of its land than it has lost.

The European Union announced on Thursday that it has approved a 90-billion-euro loan to Ukraine and adopted the 20th package of sanctions against Russia, including 36 new restrictive measures targeting Russian oil exploration, extraction, refining and transportation.

Russia's mission to the EU blasted the new sanctions as illegal and said Russia will respond appropriately in due course. Against the backdrop of current turbulence in the global energy market, the EU will suffer the backlash of its own sanctions, it said in a statement.