❗Highlights from the Russian Defense Ministry Press Briefing, September 21:

▪The Russian Armed Forces established control over Kharkov Region’s Novoaleksandrovka and Polnaya

▪Russian servicemen are tightening the encirclement, expanding their control in the Kharkov Region

▪Combat operations are underway to expand the control zone near Petropavlovka and Prikolotnoye in the Kharkov Region

▪Russian forces have defeated Ukrainian troops encircled in five settlements in the Kharkov Region and destroyed their equipment

▪Russian servicemen thwarted three Ukrainian attempts to move reinforcements from Veliky Burluk toward Kharkov Region’s Olkhovatka

▪Ukraine has lost over 35 servicemen in the Kharkov Region encirclement

▪The Russian Armed Forces hit facilities producing drones for the Ukrainian military over the past 24 hours

▪Russian air defenses shot down 634 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones over the past 24 hours

▪Ukraine has lost nearly 1,440 servicemen in the special op zone over the day