Russian Forces Destroy Headquarters of Ukraine's Battalion

Russian forces conducted missile strikes in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv and Kharkiv regions, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced on Sunday.

"During the night in the village of Zvonetske -- Dnipropetrovsk region -- high-precision sea-based missiles destroyed the headquarters and base of the Dnipro nationalist battalion, where reinforcements from foreign mercenaries arrived the other day," Russian defense ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said in a statement.

"High-precision air-launched missiles in the area of ​​​​the settlement of Stara Bohdanivka, Mykolaiv region and at the Chuhuiv military airfield [in Kharkiv region] destroyed launchers of Ukrainian S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems identified by reconnaissance," he added.

This morning, Valentyn Reznichenko, the head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional military administration, revealed that there had been "sirens almost every hour".

He also pointed out that the Russian forces in the regional capital of Dnipro had destroyed infrastructure.

The Russian military has been claiming that it is targeting "foreign mercenaries" and "nationalist" formations in Ukraine as part of its military operation in the eastern European country.