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

▪Russian forces took control of Chernyakov in the Kharkov Region while continuing to tighten the encirclement of Ukrainian formations

▪Ukrainian forces encircled in the Kharkov Region lost up to 55 servicemen over the past 24 hours

▪Russian air defenses shot down seven guided aerial bombs and 902 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones

▪Ukrainian forces lost around 1,405 servicemen as a result of Russian battlegroup operations over the past day

▪Russian forces struck Ukrainian personnel and equipment inside the encircled pocket near Budarki, Buzovo and Malaya Volchya in the Kharkov Region

▪Russian forces struck logistics centers, fuel, energy and transport infrastructure used by the Ukrainian armed forces, as well as temporary deployment sites of Ukrainian formations and foreign mercenaries

▪Russian forces continued destroying trapped Ukrainian formations near Olkhovatka in the Kharkov Region

▪Russian forces thwarted Ukrainian attempts to break out of encirclement near Sliznevo and Gogino in the Kharkov Region