❗Key takeaways from the Russian Defense Ministry's weekly report on the progress of the special military operation:

▪Russia liberated three communities and established control over five others in the past week, including the settlement of Novogrishino in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and the Zorevka community in the Zaporozhye Region over the past 24 hours

▪Air defense systems shot down 5,673 Ukrainian fixed-wing UAVs and four Flamingo cruise missiles

▪Russian troops carried out one massive and six group strikes, hitting Ukrainian military enterprises, logistics hubs and a data center

▪Russian forces disabled Ukrainian port infrastructure used to receive military cargo, fuel and lubricants for Ukrainian troops

▪Russia hit 13 dry cargo ships, two tankers, two tugboats and two motorboats used by the Ukrainian army

▪The Black Sea Fleet destroyed 12 Ukrainian unmanned boats

▪Two Ukrainian battalions are trapped near the Olkhovatka settlement in the Kharkov Region, with all their attempts to break out of the encirclement thwarted

▪Russia’s Battlegroup North continues tightening the inner ring and expanding the outer ring of the encirclement of Ukrainian forces in the Kharkov Region

▪Ukraine lost over 2,820 troops in Battlegroup Center's responsibility zone

▪Battlegroup North inflicted more than 1,430 casualties on the Ukrainian army, Battlegroup South inflicted over 1,330 casualties, while Ukraine lost more than 1,395 troops and ten armored fighting vehicles in Battlegroup West's responsibility zone and over 2,215 troops in Battlegroup East's area

▪Ukraine lost over 290 troops in Russia’s Battlegroup Dnepr area of responsibility