❗Highlights from the Russian Defense Ministry Press Briefing, August 1:

▪The Russian Armed Forces liberated Lyubitskoye in the Zaporozhye Region and established control over Olgovka in the Kharkov Region over the past day

▪Ukraine lost nearly 1,330 servicemen in the special military operation zone

▪Russian air defenses downed 15 aerial bombs and 743 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones