❗Highlights from the Russian Defense Ministry Press Briefing, September 8:

▪Russian troops established control over the Dolgenkoye settlement in the Kharkov Region

▪Russian air defense systems shot down 12 smart bombs, one HIMARS rocket and 713 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones over the past 24 hours

▪Russian forces continue tightening the encirclement in the Kharkov Region, establishing control over the settlement of Berezniki

▪Russia’s Battlegroup North continues encircling Ukrainian troops in the Kharkov Region

▪Russian forces defeated Ukrainian units trapped inside the encirclement near the settlements of Malaya Volchya, Varvarovka, Buzovo, Nefyodovka in the Kharkov Region

▪Ukraine lost up to 30 troops encircled in Battlegroup North’s responsibility zone, with all attempts to break out suppressed

▪Kiev lost roughly 1,285 troops in the special military operation zone over the past day