⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Morning Briefing of The Ministry of Defense of Russia (August 14, 2023)

⚡️English Translation⚡️

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

(14 August 2023)

▫️Last night, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation launched a group strike with long-range sea-based precision weapons against the production and storage sites of unmanned boats used by the AFU for terrorist attacks.

▫️The goal of the attack has been reached. All the assigned targets have been neutralised.

▫️In Kupyansk direction, as a result of strikes by Army Aviation and artillery, as well as courageous actions by units of the Zapad Group of Forces, 6 enemy attacks and counterattacks have been successfully repelled close to Novosyolovskoye (Lugansk People's Republic), Pershotravnyovoye, Sinkovka and Mankovka tracts (Kharkov region).

▫️The enemy losses were up to 65 servicemen, 3 armoured fighting vehicles, 2 pickup trucks, 1 German-manufactured Panzerhaubitze-2000 self-propelled artillery system, 2 Polish-manufactured Krab self-propelled artillery systems, 1 Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer, as well as Msta-B and D-30 howitzers.

▫️In Donetsk direction, as a result of active and well-coordinated actions by the units of the Yug Group of Forces, with the support of Ground-Attack and Army aviation, 6 AFU attacks have been successfully repelled near Belogorovka (Lugansk People's Republic), Vodyanoye, Krasnogorovka and Nevelskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).

▫️The enemy losses were up to 150 Ukrainian servicemen, 2 tanks, 3 armoured fighting vehicles, 5 motor vehicles, as well as UK-manufactured FH-70 and Msta-B howitzers.

▫️1 ammunition depot of the AFU 53rd Mechanised Brigade has been destroyed near Avdeevka (Donetsk People's Republic).

▫️In Krasny Liman direction, as a result of active actions by units of the Tsentr Group of Forces, Army Aviation and artillery, 2 enemy attacks have been successfully repelled near Chervonaya Dibrova (Lugansk People's Republic).

▫️The enemy losses were up to 90 servicemen, 3 armoured fighting vehicles, and 2 pickup trucks.

▫️In South Donetsk direction, as a result of actions by units the Vostok Group of Forces, Operational-Tactical Aviation, artillery, and heavy flamethrower systems, enemy units have been hit close to Staromayorskoye and Urozhaynoye (Donetsk People's Republic.)

▫️The enemy losses were up to 240 Ukrainian servicemen, 3 armoured fighting vehicles, 3 motor vehicles, 2 U.S.-manufactured M777 artillery systems, and 1 French-manufactured CAESAR self-propelled artillery system.

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