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🎖🎖 by Russian Defence Ministry on progress of special military operation (6–12 December 2025)
❗️ In response to the terrorist attacks launched by Ukraine against civilian facilities in the Russian Federation from 6 to 12 December 2025, the Russian Armed Forces carried out mass and five group strikes including by Kinzhal hypersonic air-launched ballistic missiles. They hit enterprises of the Ukrainian defence industry, fuel and power facilities providing them with work, transport, airfield, and port infrastructure used for the benefit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, assembly facilities, storage areas, pre-flight training sites of long-range strike unmanned aerial vehicles, fuel and military equipment depots as well as temporary deployment areas of Ukrainian armed formations and foreign mercenaries.
🚩 Over the past week, as a result of resolute actions of the Sever Group of Forces units in Kharkov direction, Russian troops liberated Liman (Kharkov region).
💥 Strikes were delivered at formations of three mechanised brigades, two motorised infantry brigades, a jaeger brigade, an assault regiment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a territorial defence brigade, and a border detachment of the Ukrainian border service.
📍 In Sumy region, strikes were delivered at manpower and hardware of two mechanised brigades, a motorised infantry brigade, an infantry brigade, a jaeger brigade, an air assault brigade, two assault regiments of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, three territorial defence brigades, and a border detachment of the Ukrainian border service.
▪️ In total, the enemy has lost more than 1,470 troops, a tank, eight armoured fighting vehicles, 72 motor vehicles, 12 field artillery guns, two counter-fire radars, and 18 ammunition and materiel depots in the area of responsibility of the Sever Group of Forces.
🚩 The Zapad Group of Forces units continue to destroy an AFU group surrounded on the left bank of the Oskol River. Kurilovka and Kucherovka (Kharkov region) have been liberated.
💥 Russian troops engaged four mechanised brigades, an airmobile brigade, two assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a territorial defence brigade, and two national guard brigades.
▪️ The enemy losses in this direction amounted to more than 1,530 troops, two tanks, 34 armoured fighting vehicles, including 17 Western-made vehicles, 98 motor vehicles, and 11 field artillery guns. Seven electronic warfare stations and 47 ammunition depots were neutralised.
🚩 Over the past week, the Yug Group of Forces liberated Seversk and Chervonoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
💥 Russian troops inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of four mechanised brigades, an airmobile brigade, two assault brigades, an air assault brigade, a mountain assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a marine brigade, two territorial defence brigades, and two national guard brigades.
▪️ In total, more than 1,095 troops, 24 armoured fighting vehicles including six NATO-made vehicles, 81 motor vehicles, and eight field artillery guns, have been neutralised in the area of responsibility of the Yug Group of Forces. Six electronic warfare stations and 35 ammunition, fuel, and materiel depots were neutralised.
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🫡 Servicemen of 2nd Combined Arms Army (Tsentr Group of Forces) go on evacuating civilians in Krasnoarmeysk (Donetsk People's Republic)
⏩ The locals are striving to start everything over and left their shelters in Krasnoarmeysk with happiness. Escorted by Russian servicemembers, they were evacuated from the battlefield to reunite their families.
⚡️ The servicemen promptly rendered medical aid to the wounded civilians.
🎯 The group was accompanied by reconnaissance drones during the entire evacuation.
📱 Personnel was in touch with its command and a cover group which was on duty at assembly points in the rear area for rapid departure of civilians on all-terrain vehicles.
💬 The civilians were evacuated and placed in a temporary residence. There, the evacuees were provided with all necessary assistance and the process of restoring documents was started. The people with tears in their eyes told about the outrages and robberies committed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Krasnoarmeysk.
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⚔️ Rocket artillery engages AFU positions
00:00 Grad MLRSs (Zapad Group of Forces) hit an AFU manpower and hardware assembly area in Krasny Liman direction.
00:15 Servicemembers of the Vostok Group of Forces smashed enemy strongholds near Gulyaypole (Zaporozhye region).
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⚡️Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov congratulated the command and personnel of the 272nd Motorised Rifle Regiment on the liberation of Kurilovka (Kharkov region).
'The servicemen of the regiment at the Motherland's first call were ready to protect it and honourably perform the tasks of the special military operation,' said the Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation in a greeting telegram.
'This success will be a symbol of courage and resilience of the servicemen and will be included in the history of the Russian army's exploits,' the Russian Defence Minister stressed.
🇷🇺 Servicemen of the 123rd and 6th separate guards motorised rifle brigades (3rd Combined Arms Army, Yug Group of Forces) liberated Seversk, completing the mopping up city quarters from the AFU formations.
Servicemen of the Yug Group of Forces deployed the State flag of the Russian Federation near the city administration of Seversk, next to the Great Patriotic War Heroes Memorial and in Victory Park near a monument of a legendary Soviet tank T-34, as well as on the streets and roofs of the city's houses, which were taken under the control of the Russian Armed Forces.
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⚡️Footages from the liberated city of Seversk (Donetsk People's Republic)
▫️After mopping up the city from AFU militants, servicemen of the 6th Separate Guards Motorised Rifle Brigade (3rd Combined Arms Army, Yug Group of Forces) conduct house-to-house visits to apartment buildings and a private sector in order to provide medical assistance for civilians who remained in the city.
▫️Local residents welcome Russian servicemen and thank them for liberating the city. The servicemen deliver food, drinking water, and medicines to them.
▫️All those who wish to be evacuated to a safe area, are placed in a temporary accommodation area where all necessary assistance is provided.
▫️In addition, during the inspection of residential areas, the Group's servicemen inspect roads and adjacent areas in order to find explosive objects, destroying dangerous objects with counter-charges.
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The President held a meeting, via videoconference, on the progress of the special military operation
The Supreme Commander-in-Chief was briefed on the situation in the special military operation zone. Vladimir Putin noted the troops were advancing at a good pace in all areas and pointed out the liberation of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics as well as the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions was proceeding steadily, with the Russian Armed Forces firmly holding the initiative.
The situation in the northern Donetsk People's Republic within the area of responsibility of the South group of forces was discussed separately. The President received detailed reports on the Russian Armed Forces taking complete control of Seversk.
I have no doubt that the liberation of the town of Seversk as well effective offensive actions in this area in general bring us closer to a new successful offensive in other areas, driving Ukrainian military units away from our territories, and a return of peaceful life in Donbass. I would like to ask you to convey my sincere gratitude to all the personnel who took part in the liberation of Seversk.Читать полностью…
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🎖🎖 by Russian Defence Ministry on progress of special military operation as of 11 December 2025
Part 2 (👉 see Part 1)
↗️The Vostok Group of Forces continued advancing into the depth of enemy defence. Russian troops inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of three mechanised brigades, two assault brigades, two assault regiments of the AFU, and one territorial defence brigade near Ternovatoye, Kosovtsevo, Varvarovka, Gulyaypole (Zaporozhye region) and Andreyevka (Dnepropetrovsk region).
▪️The AFU losses amounted to up to 235 troops, four armoured fighting vehicles, 18 motor vehicles, and two field artillery guns.
💥 Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted fire damage on units of one mechanised brigade and two coastal defence brigades of the AFU close to Nikolskoye and Ponyatovka (Kherson region).
▪️More than 50 troops, one armoured personnel carrier, 13 motor vehicles, three artillery guns, including two U.S.-made M777 howitzers, one electronic warfare station, and two ammunition and materiel depots have been neutralised.
✈️ Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack drones, missile troops and artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have inflicted damage on energy and fuel facilities used by the AFU, as well as temporary deployment areas of Ukrainian armed formations and foreign mercenaries in 152 areas.
🎯 Air defence systems shot down ten U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles, one Neptune long-range missile, and 396 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
🎯 The Black Sea Fleet destroyed one AFU uncrewed surface vehicle in the central part of the Black Sea.
📊 In total, since the beginning of the special military operation the enemy lost:
▫️ 669 aircraft,
▫️ 283 helicopters,
▫️ 101,909 unmanned aerial vehicles,
▫️ 639 anti-aircraft missile systems,
▫️ 26,495 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles,
▫️ 1,628 MLRS combat vehicles,
▫️ 31,844 field artillery guns and mortars,
▫️ 48,815 units of support military vehicles.
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⚡️ The units of the Sever Group of Forces have completed the liberation of Liman in Kharkov region.
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⚔️ Uragan MLRS crews of the 25th Combined Arms Army of the Zapad Group of Forces eliminated armoured vehicles and manpower of the AFU in Krasny Liman direction.
🫡 Precision strikes allowed assault groups to advance and gain foothold with minimum losses.
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💥 A TOS-2 Tosochka crew of the 10th Guards NBC Protection Regiment as part of the Tsentr Group of Forces delivered a powerful thermobaric strike at a stronghold of the AFU in Krasnoarmeysk direction.
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🪖 A unit of the 14th Army Corps as part of the Dnepr Group of Forces hones combat skills and practises joint actions for successful completion of combat tasks.
🪖 The task of the unit is to secure and defend the coast from uncrewed surface vehicles and UAVs of the mock enemy. The servicemen train to repel attacks from sea and air.
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⚡️ In response to the terrorist attacks launched by Ukraine against civilian facilities in the Russian Federation from 6 to 12 December 2025, the Russian Armed Forces carried out mass and five group strikes including by Kinzhal hypersonic air-launched ballistic missiles. They hit enterprises of the Ukrainian defence industry, fuel and power facilities providing them with work, transport, airfield, and port infrastructure used for the benefit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, assembly facilities, storage areas, pre-flight training sites of long-range strike unmanned aerial vehicles, fuel and military equipment depots as well as temporary deployment areas of Ukrainian armed formations and foreign mercenaries.
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🎮 Unmanned Systems Forces and EOD specialists of Airborne Troops demine advance routes for assault detachments in Zaporozhye region
📍 Combat engineers of the Novorossiysk Airborne Formation (Dnepr Group of Forces) in close cooperation with an unmanned systems unit demined advance routes for assault detachments moving out to liberate Primorskoye and Stepnogorsk in Zaporozhye region.
💥 Operators deploy drones when something dangerous is detected. Then, they drop a special charge to neutralise the explosive on site after confirming the position and type of the target.
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📆 Top News Today
▫️Russian President Vladimir Putin held a video conference to discuss the situation in the special military operation zone. The Supreme Commander-in-Chief was briefed on the current situation in the special military operation zone. General of the Army Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, reported that Russian troops had liberated the city of Seversk in the Donetsk People's Republic, as well as the settlements of Kucherovka, Kurilovka, and Liman in the Kharkov region. The President noted the positive progress in all areas.
▫️Russian Defence Minister Andrey Belousov congratulated the command and personnel of the units, which participated in the liberation of settlements. The head of the Russian Defence Ministry thanked the military personnel for their loyalty to their military duty and oath.
▫️The Russian Ministry of Defense refuted the fake news about the alleged hacking of the Register of Military Records. The Register operates as usual. Intruders' attempts to disrupt the Register's operation fail to achieve their objectives. Security of information is fully ensured.
▫️The units of the Sever Group of Forces have completed the liberation of Liman in Kharkov region.
▫️Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack drones, missile troops and artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have inflicted damage on energy and fuel facilities used by the AFU, as well as temporary deployment areas of Ukrainian armed formations and foreign mercenaries in 152 areas.
▫️The Russian Defence Ministry shows Uragan MLRS crews, a Zemledeliye remote minelaying system crew, TOS-1A Solntsepyok crews, and units of the Unmanned Systems Forces in action.
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🎮 UAV teams wipe out the enemy in all directions
00:00 Fibre-optic FPV drone operators of the Sever Group of Forces zone wiped out a camouflaged tank of the AFU in Kharkov direction.
00:14 The Yug Group's BARS-31 attack drones thwarted the enemy's rotation and engaged a UAV control post of the AFU.
00:24 The Vostok Group's UAV operators destroyed a U.S.-made M1117 armoured personnel carrier and motor vehicles of the AFU in Zaporozhye region.
00:40 The Sever Group's paratroopers use drones to hit manpower and hardware of the enemy in Sumy region.
00:54 The Tsentr Group's UAVs disrupted the enemy's logistics routes and thwarted AFU rotation in Krasnoarmeysk direction.
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⚡️Russian Defence Minister congratulates servicemen on liberation of Seversk (Donetsk People's Republic)
Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov congratulated the command and personnel of the 6th Separate Guards Motorised Rifle Brigade of the Lisichansk Cossack Brigade named after M.I.Platov and the 123rd Separate Guards Motorised Rifle Brigade named after K.Ye.Voroshilov on the liberation of Seversk (Donetsk People's Republic).
'In the course of the special military operation, the servicemen perform combat missions in the most difficult directions, demonstrating courage and valour, defeat the enemy on his homeland, bringing our victory closer,' the Russian Defence Minister said in a greeting telegram.
'We will always remember the names of the servicemen who gave their lives in the battle for the Motherland,' the Russian Defence Minister stressed.
⚡️Russian Defence Minister congratulates servicemen on liberation of Kurilovka in Kharkov region
Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov congratulated the command and personnel of the 153rd Tank Regiment on liberation of Kurilovka in Kharkov region.
'In harsh years of the Great Patriotic War, the regiment's servicemen showed examplary courage, inexorable resilience and tenacity in the fight against the German-fascist invaders,' the Russian Defence Minister said in a greeting telegram.
'We will always remember the exploits of the soldiers who shed blood for our Motherland,' the Russian Defence Minister stressed.
🚛 The Tsentr Group's Zemledeliye remote minelaying system crew blocked the enemy's routes of movement and supply in Krasnoarmeysk direction.
▫️EOD specialists fired a salvo of projectiles with programmable ammunition to set up mine barriers along supply routes and possible withdrawal routes of Ukrainian militants.
➡️ Read more about Zemledeliye remote minelaying system in #WeaponZ column.
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🎮 Drone pilots eliminate enemy hardware
FPV-drone KVN-23 teams (106th Airborne Division, Unmanned Systems Forces) destroyed:
▫️ an ATV,
▫️ a relay antenna,
▫️ a ground robotic system,
▫️ a mortar,
▫️ a shelter along with personnel,
▫️ a pick-up truck,
▫️ an armoured personnel carrier of the enemy.
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🎯 The Vostok Group's UAV operators detected fortified enemy strongholds near Gulyaypole and transmitted the coordinates of targets to artillerymen.
00:00 A TOS-2 Tosochka crew wiped out AFU fortifications with thermobaric munitions.
00:13 The Group's artillery crews delivered precise strikes at the enemy's positions.
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🎖🎖 by Russian Defence Ministry on progress of special military operation as of 11 December 2025
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
🚩 The units of the Sever Group of Forces have completed the liberation of Liman in Kharkov region.
💥 Russian troops inflicted losses on the formations of one mechanised brigade, one air assault brigade, one assault regiment of the AFU, and two territorial defence brigades near Alekseyevka, Andreyevka, Novaya Sech, and Kucherovka (Sumy region).
🔥In Kharkov direction, units of one heavy mechanised brigade, one jaeger brigade, two motorised infantry brigades, one assault regiment of the AFU, and one territorial defence brigade have been hit near Prilipka, Staritsa, Vilcha, and Volchanskiye Khutora (Kharkov region).
▪️The enemy losses amounted to up to 145 troops, one motor vehicle, one Israeli-made RADA radar station, and one ammunition depot.
🪖 Units of the Zapad Group of Forces continue to destroy an enemy group surrounded on the left bank of the Oskol River.
💥 Russian troops engaged manpower and hardware of three mechanised brigades of the AFU and one national guard brigade near Kupyansk-Uzlovoy, Boguslavka, Novoplatonovka, Kurilovka (Kharkov region) and Krasny Liman (Donetsk People's Republic).
▪️The AFU lost up to 215 troops, four U.S.-made HMMWV armoured vehicles, and one Canadian-made Senator armoured personnel carrier, 11 motor vehicles, one electronic warfare station, and six ammunition depots.
📍The Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions. Two mechanised brigades of the AFU were hit near Seversk, Kramatorsk, Stepanovka, and Konstantinovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
▪️The AFU losses amounted to more than 120 troops, two armoured personnel carriers, two armoured fighting vehicles, eight motor vehicles, and three ammunition, materiel, and fuel depots.
🪖 The Tsentr Group of Forces units continued to neutralise encircled AFU formations in Vostochny and Zapadny districts of Dimitrov, as well as to mop up the settlements of Svetloye and Grishino (Donetsk People's Republic).
💥The Group's inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of four mechanised brigades, one jaeger brigade, two air assault brigades, three assault regiments of the AFU, two marine brigades, one territorial defence brigade, and two national guard brigades near Toretskoye, Rodinskoye, Krasnoyarskoye, Svetloye, Shevchenko, Belitskoye, Torskoye (Donetsk People's Republic), Novopodgorodnoye, and Novopavlovka (Dnepropetrovsk region).
▪️The AFU losses amounted to more than 415 troops, one Swedish-made Viking armoured personnel carrier, two armoured fighting vehicles, and three pickup trucks.
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00:00 A TOS-1A Solntsepyok crew of the Sever Group of Forces destroyed a cluster of enemy manpower in Kharkov direction.
00:23 State and departmental awards were presented to servicemen of the 6th Regiment of the NBC protection troops.
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📆 Top News Today
▫️ Units of the Tsentr Group of Forces continued to eliminate the encircled AFU formations in Vostochny and Zapadny neighbourhoods, as well as mop up Svetloye and Grishino (Donetsk People's Republic).
▫️The Russian Defence Ministry shows Grad MLRS crews, TOS-2 Tosochka crews, D-30 howitzer crews, T-80BVM tank crews, and units of the Unmanned Systems Forces in action.
▫️ Servicemen of the Vostok Group of Forces shared the details about the liberation of Ostapovskoye in Dnepropetrovsk region.
▫️ Units of the 14th Army Corps as part of the Dnepr Group of Forces continue to hone their combat skills at a training ground to successfully perform combat tasks.
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'We surrendered voluntarily to survive'
🏳️ Captured Ukrainian serviceman Mikhail Beletsky told how his group was left without supplies and help from their own command.
'We spent 12 days in a position in a house, our task was to watch the road. Each of us had four clips of ammunition. A Baba Yaga drone delivered supplies to us. We asked for food supplies, but in 12 days, drones delivered the supplies only thrice,' he recalled.
'We felt somebody approaching, when we were in the house. We looked and saw four Russian servicemen. We knocked on the window and said that we surrender, we left our weapons behind and went to them. Russians gave us cigarettes, some water, and food they had,' he said.
🎮 Drone operators successfully eliminate targets
FPV drone operators of the Unmanned Systems Forces destroyed motor vehicles of the AFU, used to deliver manpower and ammunition to the line of contact, as well as destroyed a temporary deployment area and a UAV control post of the enemy.
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🎮 Unmanned Systems Forces deliver precise strikes at enemy troops
00:00 FPV drone operators of the Sever Group of Forces destroyed mortars at the enemy's concealed firing positions in Sumy region.
00:14 A Kub loitering munition team eliminated a group of the AFU infantry in Kupyansk direction.
00:23 UAV teams of the Dnepr Group of Forces obliterated temporary deployment areas and heavy cargo drones of the enemy near Orekhov and Stepnogorsk in Zaporozhye region.
00:36 UAV operators of the Tsentr Group of Forces wiped out attack FPV drones of the enemy in Krasnoarmeysk direction.
00:47 UAV teams of the Vostok Group of Forces thwarted an attempt to deliver reserves of the enemy in Gulyaipole.
01:11 Drone teams of the Yug Group of Forces destroyed a pickup truck with manpower, a robotic system, a control post for heavy hexacopters, and a mortar of the AFU.
01:29 KVN FPV drone teams of the 106th Airborne Division located and wiped out ammunition depots and a UAV control post of the enemy.
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