Russia announced on Tuesday that it launched offensives on different fronts and defeated Ukrainian counterattacks over the past day, while Ukraine claimed its army held positions and repelled multiple Russian attacks.
According to a Tuesday report from the Russian Defense Ministry, Russian forces carried out offensives on multiple fronts in Kharkiv, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, and Kherson. The report claimed that Ukrainian counterattacks were defeated, and over 40 pieces of military equipment, including a leopard tank and several armored vehicles, were destroyed. Russia's air defense also shot down six HIMARS missiles and 71 drones launched by the Ukrainian army.
On the same day, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces released a battle report, stating that Ukrainian forces had engaged in 110 battle clashes with Russian troops on the frontlines and repelled multiple Russian attacks, with most of the clashes reported on the Kurakhove and Pokrovsk fronts. Meanwhile, Kharkiv, Sumy, and Chernihiv regions are still facing Russian bombardment.
Russia claims to launch multiple offensives, Ukraine reports holding ground
The total profits of light industrial enterprises above the designated size in China (firms with annual business revenue of at least 20 million yuan) exceeded one trillion yuan (about 138.67 billion U.S. dollars) in the January-September period, according to the China National Light Industry Council.
Driven by supportive policies aimed at boosting the consumption, such as consumer goods trade-in programs, China's light industrial economy has been operating smoothly. The domestic and foreign trade markets are expanding steadily, and investment is recovering rapidly.
In the first three quarters, the operating income of light industrial enterprises above the designated size reached 16.52 trillion yuan, with profits totaling 1.02 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 7.2 percent.
Among them, the output growth rates for household freezers, air conditioners and refrigerators stood at 14 percent, 8 percent, and 7.5 percent, respectively, and industries such as papermaking, batteries and furniture saw profits maintaining a double-digit growth.
The market size of light industry expanded steadily, with exports reaching 682.16 billion U.S. dollars, up 2.6 percent year on year.
Profits of China's light industrial enterprises above designated size exceeds one trl yuan in Jan-Sept
