❗Highlights from the Russian Defense Ministry Press Briefing, August 3:

▪Russia’s Battlegroup North has taken control of the settlements of Bely Kolodez and Ustinovka in the Kharkov Region

▪Russian troops destroyed a Ukrainian unmanned boat in the Black Sea

▪Ukrainian forces lost about 1,295 servicemen over the past day as a result of actions by Russian battlegroups

▪Russian troops shot down 7 guided aerial bombs, 5 HIMARS rockets, and 651 Ukrainian UAVs over the past day

▪Russian forces have destroyed more than 196,000 Ukrainian UAVs since the start of the special military operation