Russian forces were promoted to key points along the front in eastern Ukraine, overcoming Ukrainian units in at least six different areas, While using rockets and unmanned aircraft to hit ammunition and military airports, the country’s defense ministry announced Wednesday.

Russia, which controls almost one fifth of Ukraine, occupied 1.112 square kilometers Ukrainian territory in the last two months, according to the pro -Dep state. Russia today controls the whole Crimea and Luhank, about 70% of Donetsk, Zaporizia and Hersona and small parts of Harcovo, Sumi and Dnipropetrovsk.

The Russian Ministry of Defense said the Russian forces defeated Ukrainian forces in Donetsk, Sumi, Kharkov, Zaporizia, the Peninsula and Dnipropetrovsk and occupied the village of Tolstoy in the region.

‘We’re going up’ Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

Kiev said Russia hit Ukraine with 728 drones – record number – overnight, a few hours after US President Donald Trump promised to send more defensive weapons to Ukraine and spoke particularly criticizing him.

According to Moscow, large -scale rockets were launched, including ballistic, Kinzhal supersonic missiles, as well as unmanned aircraft against infrastructure at military airports. Russia claims that it has hit all the goals, but the Ukrainian army says it rejected almost all Russian drones.