Russia struck an artillery weapons depot with Kalibr cruise missiles in Ukraine's northerly Chernihiv region, the RIA news agency reported, citing the Russian defence ministry.
Russian air defence forces shot down a Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter jet and an Mi-24 helicopter, the TASS news agency reported.
Elsewhere, Russian forces cut off the last routes for evacuating citizens from the eastern Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk, a Ukrainian official said, as the Kremlin pushed for victory in the Donbas region.
The last bridge to the city was destroyed, trapping any remaining civilians and making it impossible to deliver humanitarian supplies, said regional governor Sergei Gaidai, adding that some 70 per cent of the city was under Russian control.
Ukraine has issued increasingly urgent calls for more Western heavy weapons to help defend Severodonetsk, which Kyiv says could hold the key to the battle for the eastern Donbas region and the course of the war, now in its fourth month.
ermany will put Gazprom Germania, the energy business abandoned by Russia's Gazprom in April, under long-term administration and back it with a loan of around 10 billion euros ($10.4 billion) to help bolster the security of Europe's energy supplies.
The energy trading, storage and transmission business, which Gazprom ditched following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February, will be renamed Securing Energy for Europe GmbH, the German government said in a statement
A government source said state investment bank KfW would support the company with a loan of between 9 and 10 billion euros designed to ensure the continuity of a business that is important for Europe's energy supplies.
The new, long-term arrangement will allow administrators to focus on securing energy supplies. Under the previous, short-term agreement, administrators' primary duty would have been to preserve the company's capital for its original owner, the Russian state.
German Finance Minister Christian Lindner said the state-guaranteed loans would have no implications for the federal budget.
"They are just guarantees," he said.