Russia said it had made advances near Bakhmut and damaged multiple military equipment and a workshop in the past 24 hours, while Ukraine said it had fought 90 battles with Russian forces at the front.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said on Wednesday that the Russian army had taken control of the Novy district of the Chasiv Yar settlement near Bakhmut in the Donetsk region, damaging one Ukrainian Mi-24 helicopter and a workshop of a Ukrainian company that produces tank guns and large-caliber ammunition.
The Russian Black Sea Fleet sank three unmanned boats of the Ukrainian army. The Russian air defense system intercepted three HIMARS rockets and 39 drones of the Ukrainian army.
On the same day, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported that until 16:00 local time, Ukrainian forces engaged in 90 battles with Russian troops, as Russian troops continued to intensify attacks on the Donetsk region.
As reported, in Volchansk and Lyptsi, the Ukrainian forces repelled six attacks from the Russian forces. And in the direction of Pokrovsk, the Russian army launched 19 attacks on the Ukrainian defensive line in this region, while the Ukrainian army repelled 13 Russian attacks.
Russia seizes part of Ukrainian town near Bakhmut, Ukraine repels multiple Russian offensives
Rescue operations are in full swing on Saturday after a dike breach in central China's Hunan Province on Friday afternoon.
A dike of the Dongting Lake burst in Tuanzhou Township, Yueyang City's Huarong County Friday afternoon, causing flooding in the area. All the local people affected have been safely evacuated.
Rescue forces have been working tirelessly, using heavy machinery to place stones along both ends of the dike to seal the gap. The work was still in progress as of 18:00 on Saturday.
"We are using a combination of bidirectional blocking and stone dumping by ships to close the breach. This is a massive task, requiring about 100,000 cubic meters of materials to seal and restore the dike. We will resolutely follow the important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping and make every effort to carry out rescue operations to effectively protect the lives and property of the people," said Ji Zhigang, director of the Water Resources Bureau of Huarong County.
A total of 5,755 affected residents have been evacuated in the first time by more than 2,300 rescuers. The residents received 5,000 family emergency kits from the disaster relief, emergency management, and material reserve authorities, and have been transfered to resettlement sites equipped with essential supplies.
"We have food and drink here, such as eight-ingredient porridge, egg cakes, and mineral water. We arrived at the resettlement point at 5:00 in the morning," said an evacuated resident named Bai Yunlan.
Local authorities have also deployed more than 3,000 personnel to reinforce a dike about nine kilometers away from the broken one.
The Ministry of Water Resources has dispatched an expert team to help managing the crisis, and held a flood prevention meeting on Saturday to analyze current situation.
Rescue operations, relief efforts in full swing after Dongting dike breach
