Five Russian planes and 1 helicopter were shot down and two tanks, multiple trucks were destroyed in the Lugansk region after an attack on Ukraine, Ukrainian Armed Forces said in statement.
After Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a "special military operation" in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region, there are multiple reports of cruise missile strikes on civilian infrastructure, including residential apartment blocks deep inside Ukraine. There were reports Russia seized control of 2 villages in the east and troops are attempting to advance.
Ukrainian border service reported incursion and artillery attacks from Belarus as well.
According to the statement, attacks on border units and checkpoints are carried out with the use of artillery, heavy equipment and firearms near Luhansk, Sumy, Kharkiv, Chernihiv and Zhytomyr regions, as well as from the territory of the temporarily occupied Crimea.
