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▫️The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to destroy AFU units on the territory of Kursk region. In the past 24 hours, AFU losses amounted to up to 200 troops, a tank, an armoured personnel carrier, two armoured fighting vehicles, 13 motor vehicles, two HIMARS MLRS launchers with a transport-loading vehicle and an escort vehicle as well as two artillery guns, and a mortar.
▫️Russian air defence means have shot down four U.S.-made JDAM guided aerial bombs and five HIMARS MLRS projectiles during the day as well as 304 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
▫️ In violation of the Russian-American agreements to cease strikes at energy facilities for 30 days from 18 March 2025, the Kiev regime continues its daily unilateral attacks against the Russian energy infrastructure. Six AFU attacks on Russian power industry facilities have been recorded.
▫️The Russian Defence Ministry shows footage of D-30 howitzers, a Zemledeliye remote mine-laying system, engineer units, and strike UAV pilots.
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🪖 Servicemen of the 89th Combat Engineer Regiment (Sever Group of Forces) and volunteers of the Bars-Kursk unit demine liberated settlements in Kursk region.
🤝 Moreover, the military finishes the training of the Bars-Kursk EOD specialists. At the final stage of the drills, the volunteers were involved in mine clearance operations under control of experienced specialists.
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Personnel rotation is unavailable
🎮 An FPV drone pilot of the Sever Group of Forces destroyed a hostile motor vehicle which was supposed to conduct personnel rotation at the line of contact in Sumy region.
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📊 Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk direction, the AFU losses amounted:
▫️ to more than 74,450 troops,
▫️ 407 tanks,
▫️ 333 infantry fighting vehicles,
▫️ 304 armoured personnel carriers,
▫️ 2,270 armoured fighting vehicles,
▫️ 2,717 motor vehicles,
▫️ 612 artillery guns,
▫️ 57 MLRS launchers including 15 of HIMARS and seven of MLRS made by the USA,
▫️ 26 anti-aircraft missile launchers, one self-propelled anti-aircraft system, ten transport-loading vehicles,
▫️ 123 EW stations,
▫️ 18 counter-fire radars, ten air defence radars,
▫️ 57 units of engineering and other materiel, including 23 counterobstacle vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, five bridge launchers, one engineering reconnaissance vehicle as well as 15 armoured recovery vehicles, and one command post vehicle.
The operation to neutralise the AFU units is in progress.
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🎖🎖 by Russian Defence Ministry on progress of special military operation as of 15 April 2025
Part 2 (👉 See Part 1)
↗️ Units of the Vostok Group of Forces continued advancing into the depth of enemy defence. Russian forces damaged manpower and hardware of a mechanised brigade, an airmobile brigade, an air assault brigade, and a territorial defence brigade near Bogatyr, Otradnoye, Burlatskoye, and Shevchenko (Donetsk People's Republic).
▪️ The enemy's losses amounted to up to 155 troops, two armoured vehicles, a pick-up truck, and two field artillery guns including a U.S.-made 155-mm Paladin self-propelled artillery system.
💥 The Dnepr Group of Forces' units improved the tactical situation. Russian formations engaged a mechanised brigade, a mountain assault brigade, two coastal defence brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and two territorial defence brigades near Novodanilovka, Stepnogorsk (Zaporozhye region), Tokarevka, Sadovoye, Antonovka, and Dneprovskoye (Kherson region).
▪️ Up to 100 troops, nine motor vehicles, three artillery guns, two electronic warfare stations, a U.S.-made AN/TPQ-50 counter-fire radar, and three ammunition depots were neutralised.
✈️ Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack unmanned aerial vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have engaged the infrastructure of a military airfield, assembly facilities for MLRS and strike drones, a drone training centre as well as temporary deployment areas of the Ukrainian armed formations in 144 areas.
🎯 Russian air defence means have shot down four U.S.-made JDAM guided aerial bombs and five HIMARS MLRS projectiles during the day as well as 304 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
📊 In total, since the beginning of the special military operation the enemy lost:
▫️ 661 aircraft,
▫️ 283 helicopters,
▫️ 51,866 unmanned aerial vehicles,
▫️ 601 anti-aircraft missile systems,
▫️ 22,846 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles,
▫️ 1,536 MLRS combat vehicles,
▫️ 23,667 field artillery guns and mortars,
▫️ 34,127 units of support military vehicles.
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⚡️ In violation of the Russian-American agreements to cease strikes at energy facilities for 30 days from 18 March 2025, the Kiev regime continues its daily unilateral attacks against the Russian energy infrastructure. Six AFU attacks on Russian power industry facilities have been recorded.
In Bryansk region:
▫️ On 14 April, at 17:20, the Armed Forces of Ukraine deliberately shelled and disabled the Solovyevka complete transformer substation of the Rosseti-Centre's branch Bryanskenergo.
▫️ On 14 April, at 20:36, as a result of an attack by a Ukrainian UAV against the Khvoshchevskaya complete transformer substation of Rosseti-Centre's branch Bryanskenergo, a 10kV high-voltage line was disabled. Household consumers were cut off electricity in Sevsky District.
In Kherson region:
▫️ On 14 April, at 21:12, a Ukrainian drone attacked the 150kV Vinogradovo power substation of the Rosseti branch – the Tavrichesky enterprise of main electric networks.
▫️ At 23:42, as a result of another attack by a Ukrainian strike drone against 150kV Vinogradovo power substation, a transformer was disabled and got on fire. About 56,250 people were left without power energy in 108 settlements.
In Kursk region:
▫️ On 15 April, at 01:30, as a result of an attack by a Ukrainian UAV in Kursk, on Tolstoy Street, a low-pressure distribution above-ground steel gas line was damaged. The gas supply was not available for 165 consumers.
▫️ On 15 April, at 02:40, as a result of an attack by a Ukrainian UAV in Kursk, at Pervomaysky avenue, a low-pressure distribution above-ground steel gas line was damaged. The gas was not available for 21 consumers.
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🎮 Eliminating any targets
Specialists of the Rubikon Centre hit manpower, communication assets, drones, and armour of the enemy in Sumy direction.
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📍 Zemledeliye engineering system of Tsentr Group of Forces remotely mines approaches to Russian troops in Krasnoarmeysk direction
The crew of the Zemledeliye remote mine-laying system moved to the position when received information on a possible counter-attack. Personnel mined remotely the area where the enemy's armour and infantry were expected to manoeuvre.
🔥The enemy's counter-attack was a failure. The AFU lost several units of armoured vehicles and manpower.
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▫️ On 13 April 2025, the Russian Armed Forces launched two Iskander-M operational-tactical missiles in conditions of heavy electronic warfare countermeasures and foreign-made air defence systems in action to hit the site in Sumy where commanding officers of the Seversk task force had a meeting. More than 60 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been eliminated.
▫️ The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to destroy AFU units on the territory of Kursk region. In the past 24 hours, up to 235 troops have been neutralised as well as one armoured personnel carrier, three armoured fighting vehicles, 14 motor vehicles, four field artillery guns, four mortars, and one BM-21 Grad MLRS vehicle of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
▫️ In violation of the Russian-American agreements to halt strikes at power facilities from 18 March for 30 days, the Kiev regime continues its unilateral attacks against the Russian energy infrastructure. Eight AFU attacks on Russian power industry facilities have been detected.
▫️ The Russian Defence Ministry shows TOS-1A Solntsepyok crews and UAV teams in action.
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🎮 UAV teams thwart AFU rotation in Kursk border area
The Sever Group of Forces wiped out enemy targets by accurate strikes of FPV drones and UAVs with a payload release system.
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🎮 Reconnoitring enemy positions and aiming artillery
Drone pilots detected an AFU pickup truck in South Donetsk direction. Instead of attacking it, they tracked the vehicle down to the temporary deployment area of Ukrainian militants. The coordinates were transmitted to the command post, after which the artillery destroyed a temporary deployment area with enemy personnel.
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🎯 Rammed and downed
The Sever Group's drones detected and neutralised a Baba Yaga drone of the enemy in Sumy region.
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🎖🎖 by Russian Defence Ministry on progress of special military operation as of 14 April 2025
Part 2 (👉 see Part 1)
📍 The Tsentr Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions. Russian troops hit three mechanised brigades, one assault brigade, one UAV brigade, one assault regiment of the AFU, one marine brigade, and two National Guard brigades close to Mirolyubovka, Lysovka, Zverevo, Rodinskoye, Krasnoarmeysk, Kotlino, Udachnoye, Alekseyevka, and Preobrazhenka(Donetsk People's Republic).
▪️ The AFU lost up to 420 troops, five armoured fighting vehicles, including four U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carriers, six motor vehicles, and four artillery guns.
↗️ The Vostok Group of Forces continued to advance to the depths of the enemy's defence and engaged manpower and hardware of two mechanised brigades, one air assault brigade of the AFU, one marine brigade, and two territorial defence brigades close to Shevchenko, Zeleny Kut, Zelenoye Pole, Bogatyr, Voskresenka (Donetsk People's Republic) and Gulyaipole (Zaporozhye region).
▪️ The AFU lost up to 165 troops, one tank, five motor vehicles, and three field artillery guns.
💥 The Dnepr Group of Forces units hit one mechanised brigade, one mountain assault brigade, and three coastal defence brigades of the AFU close to Novodanilovka, Pavlovka (Zaporozhye region), Ponyatovka, Antonovka, and Nikolskoye (Kherson region).
▪️The enemy losses amounted to up to 55 troops, one M113 armoured personnel carrier and one HMMWV armoured fighting vehicle made in the USA, seven motor vehicles, one American 155-mm M777 howitzer, one electronic warfare station, one Israeli-made RADA radar, and four ammunition depots.
✈️ Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack drones, missile troops and artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have inflicted damage on workshops of the Ukrainian defence industry, military airfield infrastructure, sites storing weapons and ammunition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as temporary deployment areas of Ukrainian armed formations and mercenaries in 137 areas.
🎯 Russian air defence systems shot down six JDAM guided aerial bombs and three HIMARS MLRS projectiles made in the USA, as well as 227 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
📊 Since the beginning of the special military operation, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have neutralised:
▫️ 661 aircraft,
▫️ 283 helicopters,
▫️ 51,562 unmanned aerial vehicles,
▫️ 601 anti-aircraft missile systems,
▫️ 22,833 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles,
▫️ 1,536 MLRS combat vehicles,
▫️ 23,602 field artillery guns and mortars,
▫️ 34,087 units of special military vehicles.
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📊 Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk direction, the AFU losses amounted to:
▫️ more than 74,245 troops,
▫️ 406 tanks,
▫️ 333 infantry fighting vehicles,
▫️ 303 armoured personnel carriers,
▫️ 2,268 armoured fighting vehicles,
▫️ 2,704 motor vehicles,
▫️ 610 artillery guns,
▫️ 55 MLRS launchers, including 13 of HIMARS and seven of MLRS made by the USA,
▫️ 26 anti-aircraft missile launchers, one self-propelled anti-aircraft system, ten transport-loading vehicles,
▫️ 123 EW stations,
▫️ 18 counter-battery warfare radars, ️ten air defence radars,
▫️ 57 units of engineering and other materiel, including 23 counterobstacle vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, five bridge launchers, one engineering reconnaissance vehicle as well as 15 armoured recovery vehicles, and one command post vehicle.
The operation to neutralise the AFU units is in progress.
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⚡️In violation of the Russian-American agreements to halt strikes at power facilities from 18 March for 30 days, the Kiev regime continues its unilateral attacks against the Russian energy infrastructure.
Eight AFU attacks on Russian power industry facilities have been recorded.
In Belgorod region:
On 13 April, at 01:08, an attack launched by a Ukrainian UAV resulted in rupturing a span wire and powering off a 10 kV high-voltage line of the Rosseti-Centre's branch (Belgorodenergo). There were 735 household consumers left without electricity in Grayvoronsky District.
In Bryansk region:
▫️ On 13 April, at 08:42, the Armed Forces of Ukraine deliberately shelled and disabled a complete transformer substation of the Rosseti-Centre's branch (Bryanskenergo). Household consumers in Sevsky District were left without electricity.
▫️ On 13 April, at 14:55, a Ukrainian UAV attacked the 110kV Suzemka power substation of the Rosseti Centre's branch (Bryanskenergo); about 2,800 people were left without electricity due to the damage caused to the transformer in Suzemsky District.
▫️ On 13 April, at 17:29, a 10 kV high-voltage line of the Rosseti Centre's branch (Belgorodenergo) was disabled by deliberate shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine that ruptured a span wire. Some household consumers were left without electricity in Pogarsky District.
In Zaporozhye region:
▫️ On 13 April, at 16:30, a high-voltage line of the Tavriya-Energo State Unitary Enterprise was powered off by deliberate shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine that ruptured a span wire. Some household consumers were left without electricity in Kamenka-Dneprovskaya.
In Kursk region:
▫️ On 12 April, at 23:56, a Ukrainian UAV attacked and disabled a 110kV high-voltage line of the Rosseti Centre's branch (Kurskenergo).
▫️ On 13 April, at 11:35 a Ukrainian UAV attacked the 330 kV power substation (Zheleznogorskaya); because of a damaged span wire, a section of the 110 kV high-voltage line (Zheleznogoirskaya-Dmitriyev) was taken out of service for repair.
In the Lugansk People's Republic:
▫️ On 12 April, at 21:35, a Ukrainian UAV attacked the 110 kV power substation (Troitskaya). As a result, the 110 kV high-voltage line (Svatovo–Troitskaya of the State Unitary Enterprise of the Lugansk People's Republic ‘Republican Network Company’) was disabled. About 36,600 people were left without electricity in Troitsky, Svatovsky, and Kremensky districts.
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🏳️ ‘They don't care about people. We're cannon fodder’ — AFU POW
Captured serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Yuriy Gladchenko said that the Ukrainian command sends its troops to suicide missions:
'They don't care about people. We're cannon fodder. People are dropping like flies. Even if you know about the danger, they will send you to death.'
🎮 Molniya UAV of 1st Guards Tank Army (Zapad Group of Forces) destroys AFU stronghold in Kharkov region
Scouts spotted a cluster of Ukrainian militants. A UAV engaged the target. Thus, storming soldiers went on advancing.
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🎖🎖 by Russian Defence Ministry on repelling AFU attempt to invade Russian territory in Kursk region as of 15 April 2025
👮♂️ The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to destroy AFU units on the territory of Kursk region.
💥 The Sever Group of Forces engaged on units of a tank brigade, two mechanised brigades, two air assault brigades, two territorial defence brigades, and an assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Gornal and Oleshnya.
✈️ Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, UAVs, and artillery fire engaged AFU manpower and hardware close to Belovody, Velikaya Rybitsa, Zapselye, Kiyanitsa, Maryino, Miropolye, Mogritsa, Novaya Setch, Sadki, and Yablonovka in Sumy region.
▪️ In the past 24 hours, AFU losses amounted to up to 200 troops, a tank, an armoured personnel carrier, two armoured fighting vehicles, 13 motor vehicles, two HIMARS MLRS launchers with a transport-loading vehicle and an escort vehicle as well as two artillery guns, and a mortar.
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🎖🎖 by Russian Defence Ministry on progress of special military operation as of 15 April 2025
🪖 The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
🔥 In Belgorod direction, the Sever Group of Forces have engaged manpower and hardware of four mechanised brigades, a coastal defence brigade, an assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and a territorial defence brigade close to Miropolskoye, Malaya Rybitsa, Petrushevka, Krasnopolye, and Yamnoye (Sumy region).
▪️The AFU losses amounted to up to 90 troops, three armoured fighting vehicles, four motor vehicles, and four field artillery guns. Two ammunition depots and one materiel depot were eliminated.
📍 Units of the Zapad Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions. Russian units engaged three mechanised brigades, an assault brigade of the AFU, a territorial defence brigade, and a national guard brigade close to Kamenka, Doroshovka, Radkovka, Moskovka, Podoly, Senkovo, Boguslavka, Novay Kruglyakovka (Kharkov region), Karpovka, Redkodub, Kirovsk, and Yampol (Donetsk People's Republic).
▪️The enemy lost more than 250 troops, a UK-made Snatch armoured fighting vehicle, four motor vehicles, five NATO-made field artillery guns including two Polish-made 155-mm Krab self-propelled artillery system, a UK-made 155-mm Braveheart self-propelled artillery system, and a U.S.-made 155-mm M198 howitzer. Four electronic warfare stations and three ammunition depots were eliminated.
📍 The Yug Group of Forces' units improved the tactical situation. The Russian Armed Forces inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of three mechanised brigades, a mountain assault brigade of the AFU, two territorial defence brigades, and a national guard brigade close to Seversk, Minkovka, Markovo, Chasov Yar, Kurdyumovka, Ivanpolye, Yablonovka, Tarasovka, Ulyanovka, and Valentinovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
▪️ The AFU losses amounted to more than 285 troops, a Swedish-made CV-90 infantry fighting vehicle, a M113 armoured personnel carrier, and a HMMWV armoured vehicle made in the USA. Nine motor vehicles, ten field artillery guns including two UK-made 155-mm FH-70 howitzers and a U.S.-made Paladin self-propelled artillery system as well as five ammunition depots, two materiel depots, and a fuel depot were eliminated.
📍 The Tsentr Group of Forces' units took more advantageous lines and positions. Russian troops hit two mechanised brigades, an assault brigade, a jaeger brigade, an unmanned aerial vehicles brigade, an assault regiment of the AFU, and a national guard brigade near Lysovka, Zverevo, Kotlino, Udachnoye, Preobrazhenka, Bogdanovka, and Alekseyevka (Donetsk People's Republic).
▪️ The enemy lost more than 335 troops, four armoured fighting vehicles including a U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carrier, and two U.S.-made HMMWV armoured vehicles, two pick-up trucks, and seven field artillery guns including a U.S.-made 155-mm Paladin and a Polish-made 155-mm Krab self-propelled artillery systems.
👉 See Part 2
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💥 D-30 howitzers of the Airborne Troops laid waste to platoon strongholds along with manpower and a field ammunition dump of the AFU in Kursk border area.
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FPV drone pilots of the Yug Group of Forces ruined two dugouts of the enemy along with manpower.
📍 Aleksandro-Kalinovo direction
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💥 Servicemen of the Vostok Group of Forces neutralised two armoured fighting vehicles of the AFU near Bogatyr in South Donetsk direction.
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🔥 A TOS-1A Solntsepyok flamethrower system of the Tsentr Group of Forces dealt a blow with thermobaric shells at the enemy's stronghold.
📍 Krasnoarmeysk direction
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🏳️ AFU POW was mobilised on the way out of prison
Sergei Korotkov, a Ukrainian serviceman, told that he had been mobilised when he had left the prison and had been on his way to get a release certificate; three officers of the TCC were waiting for him at the exit.
'My military-service card was ready in half an hour. I passed the medical examination in 10 minutes, I was considered fit for military service. And in two or three hours I arrived the military base,' he recalls.
FPV drone pilots of 42nd Motorised Rifle Division wipe out AFU hardware and manpower
📍 Orekhov direction
Three soft-skinned vehicles and a cluster of AFU troops were neutralised north of Rabotino in the past 24 hours.
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🎖🎖 by Russian Defence Ministry on progress of special military operation as of 14 April 2025
💥 Yesterday, the Russian Armed Forces launched two Iskander-M operational-tactical missiles in conditions of heavy electronic warfare countermeasures and foreign-made air defence systems in action to hit the site in Sumy where commanding officers of the Seversk task force had a meeting. More than 60 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been eliminated.
▪️ The Kiev regime continues to use the Ukrainian population as a human shield by deploying military facilities and carrying out activities involving servicemen in the centre of the densely populated city.
🔥 In Belgorod direction, units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted damage on one mechanised brigade, one coastal brigade of the AFU, and two territorial defence brigades close to Lesnoye, Miropolskoye, Petrushevka, and Prokhody (Sumy region).
▪️ The AFU lost up to 95 troops, one armoured fighting vehicle, three motor vehicles, one field artillery gun, one MLRS gun, and three electronic warfare stations.
📍 The Zapad Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions and defeated the formations of two mechanised brigades, one assault brigade, one artillery brigade of the AFU, and two territorial defence brigades close to Kupyansk, Borovaya, Kamenka (Kharkov region), Kirovsk, Karpovka, and Krasny Liman (Donetsk People's Republic).
▪️ The AFU lost up to 240 troops, three armoured fighting vehicles, including two U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carriers, five motor vehicles, and two artillery guns. One Kvertus electronic warfare station, as well as two ammunition depots, were neutralised.
📍 The Yug Group of Forces units improved the tactical situation and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of two mechanised brigades, one airmobile brigade, one UAV regiment, one territorial defence brigade and one National Guard brigade close to Petrovka, Kalinovo, Tarasovka, Chasov Yar and Kleban-Byk (Donetsk People's Republic).
▪️ The enemy lost up to 315 troops, four armoured fighting vehicles, including one U.S.-made HMMWV armoured vehicle, 13 motor vehicles, and one field artillery gun. Two electronic warfare stations and six ammunition depots were neutralised.
👉 See Part 2
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🎖🎖 by Russian Defence Ministry on repelling AFU attempt to invade Russian territory in Kursk region as of 14 April 2025
👮♂️ The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to destroy AFU units on the territory of Kursk region.
💥 The Sever Group of Forces engaged units of two mechanised brigades, a tank brigade, two air assault brigades, a marine brigade, two territorial defence brigades, and an assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine close to Gornal and Oleshnya.
✈️ Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, and artillery strikes engaged AFU manpower and hardware close to Belovody, Maryino, Miropolye, Mogritsa, Novonikolayevka, Sadki, Shalygino, Yunakovka, and Yablonovka in Sumy region.
▪️ In the past 24 hours, up to 235 troops have been neutralised as well as one armoured personnel carrier, three armoured fighting vehicles, 14 motor vehicles, four field artillery guns, four mortars, and one BM-21 Grad MLRS vehicle of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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🎮 The Tsentr Group's FPV drone teams (special operations formation) have eliminated hundreds of AFU armoured vehicles, including Leopard tanks. The footage confirms the mastery of operators working in conditions of heavy electronic warfare.
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