The ministry added that Russia's "best case scenario" planning method based on an assumption that it would achieve a rapid victory with minimal cost led to unsustainable losses, forcing Moscow to subsequently reduce its operational focus.
The figure includes 1,310 casualties Russian forces suffered over the past day.
"If they sell us 5% we will go through the winter and save people’s lives. If they can sell us 10%, we will destroy all the Russians’ ballistic missiles," the president added.
Two Belarusian cousins were convicted on Aug. 12 by a Vienna court for supplying manufacturing equipment to Russia's weapons industry in violation of EU sanctions.
President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Aug. 12, discussing priority areas for cooperation between the two countries.
Commander-in-Chief Mykhailo Drapatyi's team has begun reviewing recommendations aimed at reforming Ukraine's mobilization system, Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets said on Aug. 12.
"(Russian President Vladimir) Putin does not want to stop this war, but he will stop it. We have a plan," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
Drone attacks were reported overnight in Russia's Black Sea port of Novorossiysk and across occupied Crimea, with explosions heard near Sevastopol and the Crimean Bridge.
In this interview, the Kyiv Independent’s Kateryna Hodunova speaks with “Khvoryi,” a soldier in Ukraine’s 93rd Separate Mechanized Brigade “Kholodnyi Yar,” about what it takes to survive for more than six months at a combat position.
"Russian losses amounted to at least 9,550 people killed and more than 6,600 people wounded," Zelensky said.
Platoon Commander Anatolii Syshchuk said his unit arrived at the position in April to relieve troops who had been stationed there for eight months without rotation. Their deployment was initially expected to last one month, he said.
"They purchased the equipment, but forgot to buy the ammunition," Latvian Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs said, without disclosing further details about what systems he was referring to or who was responsible.
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