⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Morning Briefing of The Ministry of Defense of Russia (August 12, 2023)

⚡️English Translation⚡️

⚡️Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation

(12 August 2023)

▫️On 11 August, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation has launched a group strike with long-range air-based precision weapons against a military airfield near Kolomyia in Ivano-Frankovsk region. The goal of the attack has been reached. All the assigned targets have been neutralised.

▫️In Kupyansk direction, in the course of conducting offensive operations, assault detachments of the Zapad Group of Forces improved the situation along the front line.

▫️8 attacks and counterattacks by units of 95th airborne assault, 14th and 32nd mechanised brigades of the AFU have been successfully repelled close to Novosyolovskoye (Lugansk People's Republic), Pershotravnyovoye, Sinkovka, and Mankovka (Kharkov region).

▫️The enemy losses were up to 70 Ukrainian servicemen, 2 armoured fighting vehicles, 3 motor vehicles, and 1 Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer.

▫️In Donetsk direction, units of the Yug Group of Forces, in close cooperation with aviation and artillery, have successfully repelled 7 attacks by AFU assault groups close to Kleshcheevka, Yakovlevka, Vodyanoye, Krasnogorovka and Nevelskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).

▫️1 ammunition depot of the AFU 59th Mechanised Brigade has been destroyed near Pervomaiskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).

▫️The enemy losses were up to 110 Ukrainian servicemen, 2 tanks, 2 armoured fighting vehicles, 4 motor vehicles, and 2 D-30 howitzers.

▫️In South Donetsk direction, as a result of actions by aviation, artillery, heavy flamethrower systems, and units of the Vostok Group of Forces, 2 attacks by AFU assault groups have been repelled near Urozhainoye (Donetsk People's Republic).

▫️The enemy losses were up to 130 Ukrainian servicemen, 1 tank, 3 armoured fighting vehicles, and 1 U.S.-manufactured AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery radar station.

▫️In Zaporozhye direction, as a results of actions by units of the Russian grouping of troops, aviation and artillery, 3 attacks by the 46th AFU Airmobile Brigade have been repelled close to Rabotino (Zaporozhye region).

▫️The enemy losses were up to 40 Ukrainian servicemen, 5 tanks, 2 armoured fighting vehicles, 2 motor vehicles, and 1 Msta-B howitzer.

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