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The general staff of Ukraine’s armed forces has reported that it has seized the village of Andriivka in the partially-occupied Donetsk region. In a statement on Facebook, the general staff said of the battle around Bakhmut: “In the Bakhmut direction, the enemy does not abandon the attempt to break through the defence of the armed forces of Ukraine in the Bohdanivka area. In their turn, the defence forces of Ukraine during the offensive actions had partial success in the area of Klishchiivka. During the assault operations they had success and mastered Andriivka, causing the enemy significant losses in manpower and equipment.”
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Air force Col Yuriy Ihnat said in televised comments in Ukraine that an overnight Russian drone attack on the region of Khmelnytskyi was an attempt to target warplanes used this week to attack Russian-occupied Crimea. Ukraine’s air force said Russia had fired 17 drones at the central Khmelnytskyi region that is home to the Starokostiantyniv airbase. Debris damaged 12 homes and shattered windows in a school, but no one was hurt, regional official Serhiy Tiurin said.
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The Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko told Russian president Vladimir Putin on Friday that the country has recently supplied 60,000 tons of diesel and 60,000 tons of petrol to Russia, and is ready to further increase shipments
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Putin has told journalists that he is open to negotiations on ending the war in Ukraine, but Ukraine does not want them.
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Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu said on Friday that the Russian navy has received two new ships this year, and is to receive another 12 by the end of 2023. The figure is significantly lower than the 30 new ships that in July the president claimed would be arriving. Shoigu was visiting the Russian Pacific fleet to check on the repair and modernisation of its nuclear submarines at the Zvezda plant in the town of Bolshoi Kamen.
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The UK’s Ministry of Defence appears convinced of Ukrainian claims to have inflicted significant damage on the Russian B
