Moscow - Saba:
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced the liberation of the town of Kruglyakovka in Kharkiv Oblast, and that its forces carried out a strike using a Kinzhal (Dagger) missile and drones on the infrastructure of a Ukrainian military airport.
The Russia Today website quoted the Russian Defense Ministry's weekly report as saying that the Russian armed forces carried out six collective strikes on Ukrainian military industry facilities over the past week.
The report continued: "The Russian armed forces carried out a strike using a Kinzhal (Dagger) missile and drones on the infrastructure of a Ukrainian military airport."
The report added that: "Units of the Northern Group of Forces improved their positions on the front line over the past week, and the enemy suffered more than 1,355 casualties. Units of the Center Group of Forces also intensified their offensive on the popular territories of Donetsk and the Dnipropetrovsk region over the past week."
The ministry stated: "Units of the Center Group of Forces intensified their offensive on the popular territories of Donetsk and the Dnipropetrovsk region, and inflicted personnel losses on the enemy amounting to 3,295 personnel over the past week." Units of the "South" Group of Forces continued to advance toward enemy defenses, inflicting more than 1,190 casualties on the Ukrainian Armed Forces over the past week.
The report indicated that units of the "West" Group of Forces liberated two towns in the Kharkiv region and inflicted more than 1,410 casualties on the Ukrainian Armed Forces over the past week.
Units of the "East" Group of Forces also advanced toward enemy defenses, inflicting more than 1,360 casualties on the Ukrainian Armed Forces over the past week.
The report concluded: "The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 520 soldiers in the Dnieper Group of Forces' area of operations over the past week. Air defenses also shot down 32 JDAM guided missiles, two HIMARS missiles, and 1,221 drones over the past week."
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