The Indian Ministry of Defense said in a statement said the strikes targeted “nine terrorist infrastructure sites in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir,” and added that they were “focused, measured and non-escalatory in nature.”

India claimed no Pakistani military facilities were hit by the strike and said the military operation, which it has dubbed “Operation Sindoor,” underscores India’s “resolve to hold perpetrators accountable while avoiding unnecessary provocation.”

Pakistani officials denounced the strikes, calling them “an unprovoked and blatant act of war” that had “violated Pakistan’s sovereignty.”

In a Wednesday morning press conference, India’s Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri claimed the government’s intelligence assessment indicated further attacks were being planned against India and with the strikes New Delhi “exercised its right to respond and pre-empt as well as deter such more cross-border attacks.”

Lieutenant Gen. Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, the head of the Pakistani military’s public relations arm, told reporters that the Indian strikes had killed 26 civilians and left 46 others injured as of Wednesday morning.

Sharif also restated an earlier claim by the Pakistan military that neither countries jets trespassed each other’s territories and the Indian airstrikes were conducted from their own airspace and struck multiple cities including ahawalpur, Kotli and Muzaffarabad.

President Donald Trump said Tuesday evening he “just heard about” the strikes, adding, “I just hope it ends very quickly.”

Pakistan Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said “India has carried out cowardly attacks on innocent civilians and mosques within Pakistan,” adding his country “will hold the enemy accountable for every single drop of its martyrs’ blood.”