MOSCOW, April 10. /TASS/. Russian troops liberated two communities in the Sumy Region and the Donetsk People’s Republic over the past 24 hours in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Friday.

"Yesterday, Battlegroup North units took control of the settlement of Miropolskoye in the Sumy Region through decisive operations. <…> During the last 24-hour period, Battlegroup South units liberated the settlement of Dibrova in the Donetsk People’s Republic in active offensive operations," the ministry said in a statement.

Russian forces delivered five strikes by precision weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles on Ukraine’s military-industrial sector, fuel and energy, transport and port infrastructure used by Ukrainian army and military airfields over the week, the ministry reported.

"On April 4-10 of this year, in response to Ukraine’s terrorist attacks on civilian facilities on Russian territory, the Russian Armed Forces delivered five combined strikes, in particular, by long-range precision weapons, hitting enterprises of Ukraine’s military-industrial sector, fuel and energy, transport and port infrastructure used to support the Ukrainian army’s operations, military airfields, ammunition depots, sites for the assembly and storage of long-range attack unmanned aerial vehicles and uncrewed boats and their preparation for launch, and also temporary deployment areas of Ukrainian armed formations and foreign mercenaries," the ministry said.