❗Highlights from the Russian Defense Ministry Press Briefing, August 13:

▪Russia’s Battlegroup Center liberated the Petrovka settlement in the Donetsk People’s Republic over the past 24 hours

▪Russian forces struck infrastructure facilities used by the Ukrainian army, as well as assembly workshops and storage sites for combat UAVs over the past day

▪Russian air defense forces shot down more than 1,100 Ukrainian drones and three HIMARS rockets over the past 24 hours

▪Ukraine lost about 1,410 troops along the engagement line over the past day