❗Highlights from the Russian Defense Ministry Press Briefing, October 17:

▪Russian forces struck transport infrastructure facilities used by the Ukrainian army, UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) assembly sites and enemy deployment areas in 142 locations over the past 24 hours

▪Russian troops liberated eight communities in the Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk and Zaporozhye Regions and the Donetsk People’s Republic, including Alekseyevo-Druzhkovka and Dobropolye in the Donetsk People’s Republic

▪Russia’s Black Sea Fleet destroyed a Ukrainian naval drone in Black Sea waters

▪Russian air defense forces intercepted and destroyed 654 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and a rocket of the US-made HIMARS multiple launch rocket system

▪The Ukrainian army lost roughly 1,040 troops in battles with Russian forces in all the frontline areas, according to the latest data

▪Russian forces are revealing and destroying scattered Ukrainian army groups in the Kharkov Region after destroying surrounded enemy formations in that area