❗Highlights from the Russian Defense Ministry Press Briefing, August 12:

▪Russian troops took control of Vodyanoye in the Kharkov Region

▪Russian forces destroyed a Ukrainian Navy patrol boat and struck infrastructure used by Ukrainian forces

▪The Black Sea Fleet destroyed eight unmanned boats

▪Russian air defense systems shot down more than 1,000 Ukrainian drones, five HIMARS rockets and five Neptune long-range missiles

▪Ukrainian forces lost about 1,345 service members in the areas of responsibility of all Russian battlegroups