❗Key takeaways from the Russian Defense Ministry's weekly report on the progress of the special military operation:

▪Russia established control over 12 settlements in the past week, including Verovka and Stenki over the past 24 hours

▪Control over Verovka complicates Ukraine's supplies in the defense depth, forcing Ukrainian soldiers to retreat further from the Russian border

▪Russian forces delivered one massive and 15 group precision weapons strikes on Ukraine's military enterprises and logistics centers

▪Russian air defenses shot down four long-range Neptune missiles and 5,103 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones

▪Russian forces hit 31 sea vessels used by the Ukrainian army, including 23 dry cargo ships

▪The Black Sea Fleet destroyed three Ukrainian unmanned boats

▪Russia's Battlegroup Center inflicted over 2,510 casualties on the Ukrainian army

▪Russia's Battlegroup North inflicted almost 1,500 casualties on the Ukrainian army, Battlegroup South inflicted over 1,290 casualties, while Ukraine lost more than 1,500 troops in Battlegroup West's responsibility zone and more than 2,500 troops in Battlegroup East's area

▪Ukraine lost up to 340 troops in Russia's Battlegroup Dnepr area of responsibility