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Russia hits Ukraine's train carrying weapons, Ukraine repels Russian offensive: reports

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Russia hits Ukraine's train carrying weapons, Ukraine repels Russian offensive: reports

2024-09-16 13:04 Last Updated At:13:37

Russia said on Sunday that its forces had destroyed a Ukrainian train carrying foreign weapons in the past 24 hours, while Ukraine reported on the same day that its forces had repelled Russian offensives in different directions, according to their latest updates on the conflict.

The Russian Defense Ministry reported that the Russian army launched offensives in Kharkov, Donetsk, Zaporozhye, Kherson and other directions, and repelled 17 Ukrainian counterattacks.

The Russian army struck a train carrying foreign weapons, destroyed a warehouse used by the Ukrainian forces for storing rockets and artillery shells, and targeted several locations where drones and unmanned boats were stationed.

Russian Aerospace Forces and air defense forces shot down three Ukrainian warplanes and 55 drones, according to the report.

The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces issued a war report on the same day, saying that there were 100 battles in the frontline areas on the day. In the Kharkov direction, Russian forces tried to attack Ukrainian positions in the Vovchansk area but were unsuccessful.

The Ukrainian side also said that the Russian forces used guided bombs to strike civilian infrastructure in Kharkov. In the Pokrovsk direction, Russian troops launched 16 attacks on Ukrainian positions that day, with Ukrainian forces repelling 13 of them, while three battles were still ongoing.

Russia hits Ukraine's train carrying weapons, Ukraine repels Russian offensive: reports

Russia hits Ukraine's train carrying weapons, Ukraine repels Russian offensive: reports

China registered a sharp surge in interregional passenger trips during the three-day Mid-Autumn Festival holiday season which ended Tuesday, according to the latest official data released by the Ministry of Transport on Wednesday.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of China's most important traditional holidays, taking place annually on the 15th day of the eighth month on the Chinese lunar calendar.

During the holiday this year, a total of 629.564 million interregional passenger trips were recorded nationwide, with a daily average exceeding 209.854 million.

The daily trips surged by 31.1 percent compared with the same period of 2023, and were 16.1 percent higher than the corresponding figure recorded in the pre-pandemic year of 2019.

Specifically, the number of interregional passenger trips handled by railways, roads, waterways, and air travel were 42.573 million, 579.94 million, 1.981 million, and 5.069 million, respectively.

China registers sharp surge interregional passenger trips during Mid-Autumn Festival holiday

China registers sharp surge interregional passenger trips during Mid-Autumn Festival holiday

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