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⚔️ A Grad MLRS crew of the Vostok Group of Forces destroyed UAV command posts and deployment areas of enemy drones in Gulyai-Pole.
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💥 Specialists of Unmanned Systems Forces hit enemy positions
00:00 The Vostok Group of Forces’ operators of attack UAVs destroyed more than 10 heavy enemy drones close to Gulyai-Pole (Zaporozhye region).
00:29 Drone teams of the Tsentr Group of Forces destroyed hiding AFU manpower in encircled Dimitrov (Donetsk People's Republic).
01:07 FPV drones of the Sever Group of Forces destroyed HMMWV and MaxxPro armoured vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which carried out a rotation of manpower and the supply of ammunition.
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🫡 Artillery of Tsentr Group of Forces are presented with state awards
The award ceremony for servicemen of the 27th Guards Motorised Rifle Division’s 268th Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment (Tsentr Group of Forces) took place in Krasnoarmeysk direction.
🎖 For courage, bravery, and heroism showed during combat missions, a leader of the self-propelled artillery regiment presented the servicemen with medals ‘For Courage’, Suvorov and Zhukov ones. Many soldiers received state award for the first time.
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🎖🎖 by Russian Defence Ministry on progress of special military operation as of 21 December 2025
Part 2 (👉 see Part 1)
↗️Units of the Vostok Group of Forces continued to advance into the depth of enemy defences. Russian troops hit manpower and hardware of one assault brigade, four assault regiments of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, one marine brigade, and one territorial defence brigade near Gai, Andreyevka (Dnepropetrovsk region), Ternovatoe, Dorozhnyanka, and Gulyai-Pole (Zaporozhye region).
▪️ The AFU losses were over 245 troops, six armoured fighting vehicles, six motor vehicles, and one U.S.-made 155-mm M198 howitzer. In addition, one material depot was destroyed.
💥 Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces defeated formations of one mechanised brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and one territorial defence brigade near Orekhov and Preobrazhenka (Zaporozhye region).
▪️ The enemy losses were up to 40 Ukrainian troops, one tank, one armoured fighting vehicle, five motor vehicles, two field artillery guns including one U.S.-made 105-mm M119 gun, two electronic warfare stations, and one Israeli-made RADA radar station.
✈️ Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack unmanned aerial vehicles, missile troops, and artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have inflicted damage enterprises of the defence industry of Ukraine, power facilities, transport and storage infrastructure that supported the Armed Forces of Ukraine, assembly sites for long-range unmanned aerial vehicles as well as temporary deployment areas of the AFU and foreign mercenaries in 144 areas .
🎯 Air defence systems hit 29 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles .
📊 In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the enemy has lost:
▫️ 669 aircraft,
▫️ 283 helicopters,
▫️ 104,014 unmanned aerial vehicles,
▫️ 640 anti-aircraft missile systems,
▫️ 26,637 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles,
▫️ 1,634 MLRS combat vehicles,
▫️ 32,062 field artillery guns and mortars,
▫️ 49,684 support military vehicles.
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💥Artillerymen of the Vostok Group of Forces destroy enemy strongholds in Gulyai-Pole (Zaporzhye region).
Coordinates for the targets are transmitted by operators of the Unmanned Systems Forces’ reconnaissance UAV teams .
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▫️ Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov took part in All-Russian charity event 'Wish Tree'.
▫️ Russian troops liberated Vysokoye in Sumy region and Svetloye in the Donetsk People's Republic.
▫️ The Russian Defence Ministry shows footage of Grad MLSR, Buk-M2 SAM system, and UAV pilots of the Unmanned Systems Forces in action.
▫️ BARS-33 volunteered servicemen of Dnepr Group of Forces were awarded with 'Warrior-Volunteer' medals.
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🪖 BARS-33 volunteered servicemen of Dnepr Group of Forces were awarded with 'Warrior-Volunteer' medals in Kherson region.
🤝 Major General Aleksandr Tulyaganov, representative of the Main Organisational and Mobilisation Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces presented medals to the servicemen and thanked them for effective combat work in the special military operation zone.
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🔥 TOS-1A Solntsepyok crews and artillerymen of the Vostok Group of Forces delivered a series of powerful strikes at AFU strongholds and ammunition depots in Gulyaypole (Zaporozhye region)
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🎄 Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov takes part in All-Russian charity event 'Wish Tree'
▫️ The Russian Defence Minister took from the Christmas tree, from a Christmas tree decorated with letters with children's New Year wishes, a card from the sisters of Vasilisa and Elizaveta from Kursk, who want to visit the Patriot Central Park and attend the National New Year Party in the Moscow Kremlin.
▫️ Andrei Belousov will also fulfill the dream of Ilya Zhulanov from Saratov region, who expressed the desire to celebrate the New Year in Russian capital and visit the Moscow Kremlin.
⬆️All-Russian charity event 'Wish Tree' is held in military units and garrisons in different regions of the country. It is attended by commanders, officers and family members of military personnel. All the children's wishes will be fulfilled during the New Year holidays. The event is taking place in Russia for the seventh time and is timed to coincide with the New Year holidays, designed to bring joy and a sense of New Year's magic to children. Thanks to the 'Wish Tree', citizens who want to do a good deed can find those in need and fulfil their New Year's wishes.⬇️
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🎖🎖 by Russian Defence Ministry on progress of special military operation as of 20 December 2025
🪖 The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
🚩 As a result of resolute actions, units of the Sever Group of Forces liberated Vysokoye in Sumy region.
💥 The Group's units inflicted losses on the formations of one jaeger brigade of the AFU and two territorial defence brigades near Alekseyevka, Iskriskovshchina, Nikolskoye, Ryzhevka, and Khoten (Sumy region).
🔥 In Kharkov direction, units of two mechanised and motorised infantry brigades of the AFU have been hit near Staritsa, Ternovaya, Izbitskoye, and Volchanskiye Khutora (Kharkov region).
▪️ The AFU losses amounted to up to 200 troops, one armoured fighting vehicle, 15 motor vehicles, and one artillery gun. One electronic warfare station and five ammunition and materiel depots were neutralised.
📍 The Zapad Group of Forces improved the situation along the front line. Strikes were delivered at manpower and hardware of four mechanised brigades, one air assault brigade of the AFU and one national guard brigade near Kovsharovka, Kupyansk-Uzlovoy, Monachinovka, Parnovatoye, Samborovka (Kharkov region), and Krasny Liman (Donetsk People's Republic).
▪️ The AFU losses amounted to more than 240 troops, one tank, two armoured fighting vehicles, 24 motor vehicles, and two field artillery guns, including one U.S.-made 155-mm Paladin self-propelled artillery system. One electronic warfare station and 10 ammunition depots were neutralised.
📍 The Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions. Russian troops hit three mechanised brigades, one airmobile brigade, one mountain assault brigade of the AFU, one marine brigade, and one national guard brigade near Kirovo, Konstantinovka, Kramatorsk, Krivaya Luka, and Minkovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
▪️ The AFU losses amounted to more than 265 troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, 20 motor vehicles, and one artillery gun. One U.S.-made AN/TPQ-48 counter-fire radar, one electronic warfare station, and four material depots were neutralised.
🚩 The Tsentr Group's units liberated Svetloye in the Donetsk People's Republic and continued to neutralise the encircled enemy formations in Dimitrov in the Donetsk People's Republic.
💥 Strikes were delivered at manpower and hardware of three mechanised brigades, two jaeger brigade, one air assault brigade, two assault regiments of the AFU, two marine brigades, one territorial defence brigade, and three national guard brigades close to Vodyanskoye, Volnoye, Gruzskoye, Zavido-Kudashevo, Novoaleksandrovka, Novokrivorozhye, and Samarskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
▪️ The enemy losses amounted to up to 525 troops, five armoured fighting vehicles, including one U.S.-made Stryker armoured personnel carrier, 14 motor vehicles, three field artillery guns, and one electronic warfare station.
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⚡️ As a result of resolute actions, units of the Sever Group of Forces liberated Vysokoye in Sumy region.
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⚔️ Yug Group's Grad MLSR crews wiped out two UAV command and control posts and a temporary deployment area of the AFU.
📍 Konstantinovka direction
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⚙️ Servicemen of the 346th Logistics Regiment as part of the Sever Group of Forces deliver all types of personal belongings, personal hygiene products, medicines, and food supplies, using both ground and aerial unmanned systems.
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Servicemen of the Vostok Group of Forces shared details of liberation of Peschanoye and Gerasimovka (Dnepropetrovsk region).
'We moved in Peschanoye swiftly. We advanced and entered one more settlement, namely, Gerasimovka. It was harder to liberate Gerasimovka as the enemy was more resilient and fought back,' said serviceman of an assault detachment with the call sign 'Kosmos'.
A serviceman of an assault detachment with the call sign 'Ataman' told, which part surprise effect and weather conditions played during the assault: 'Enemy UAVs struck us, when we approached. Weather conditions were on our side. The fog facilitated our efforts.'
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▫️ Servicemen of the Tsentr Group of Forces took active part in the liberation of Svetloye.
▫️ Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack unmanned aerial vehicles, missile troops, and artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation inflicted fire damage on enterprises of the defence industry of Ukraine, power facilities, transport and storage infrastructure that supported the Armed Forces of Ukraine, assembly sites for long-range unmanned aerial vehicles as well as temporary deployment areas of the AFU and foreign mercenaries.
▫️ The Russian Defence Ministry shows artillerymen, assault detachments, military engineers in action.
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🎮 Aerial demining
Teams of the Unmanned Systems Forces, in cooperation with sappers from the Dnepr Group of Forces, cleared approaches to the line of contact using UAVs in Zaporozhye region.
▫️ Military engineers assemble special overhead charges to detonate explosive objects. Drone operators deliver these charges and drop them with high accuracy onto discovered mines and improvised explosive devices.
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🪖 Servicemen of Tsentr Group of Forces take active part in liberation of Svetloye
The 2nd Guards Combined Arms Army’s soldiers of the 27th Guards Motorised Rifle Division’s 1435th Motorised Rifle (Assault) Regiment (Tsentr Group of Forces) liberated Svetloye in Krasnoarmeysk direction.
🎮The actions of the assault troops were actively supported by the Unmanned Systems Forces’ teams. UAV operators accompanied assault detachments, adjusted actions of the artillery, and also quickly inflicted fire damage on formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
➡️The liberation of another settlement in this direction makes it possible to narrow the enemy blocking ring and continue the elimination of scattered groups of the surrounded AFU garrison in Dimitrov in the Donetsk People's Republic.
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🎖🎖 by Russian Defence Ministry on progress of special military operation as of 21 December 2025
🪖 The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
📍Units of the Sever Group of Forces improved the tactical situation. Russian troops hit formations of one AFU jaeger brigade close to Ryzhevka and Alekseyevka in Sumy region.
💥 In Kharkov direction, Russian troops inflicted fire damage on units of one motorised infantry brigade and three mechanised brigades near Krasnoyarskoye, Ternovoye, and Volchanskiye Khutora (Kharkov region).
▪️ The AFU losses were up to 120 troops and nine motor vehicles.
📍Units of the Zapad Group of Forces improved the situation along the front line. Russian troops defeated manpower and hardware of one airmobile brigade, two assault brigades, four mechanised brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and two National Guard brigades near Podoly, Kupyansk-Uzlovoy, Lesnaya Stenkw, Kovsharovka, Boldyrevka, Monachinovka (Kharkov region), and Krasny Liman (Donetsk People's Republic).
▪️ The enemy losses were up to 210 troops, one T-72 tank, one infantry fighting vehicle, one U.S.-made HMMWV armoured vehicle made, one Canadian-made Senator armoured personnel carrier, 14 motor vehicles, and two field artillery guns. Three ammunition depots were destroyed.
📍Units of the Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous positions. Russian troops launched formations of one engineering brigade, one mountain assault brigade, and three mechanised brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine close to Kramatorsk, Druzhkovka, Zakotnoye, Konstantinovka, Nikolayevka, and Minkovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
▪️ The enemy losses were up to 215 troops, one M113 armoured personnel carrier, and one U.S.-made Stryker armoured vehicle, 11 motor vehicles, two artillery systems, and one Croatian-made RAK-SA-12 MLRS launcher. In addition, one electronic warfare station, three ammunition depots and one fuel depot were destroyed.
🪖Units of the Tsentr Group of Forces continued the neutralisation of an encircled enemy group in Dimitrov (Donetsk People's Republic), and mopping up of Rodinskoye (Donetsk People's Republic) from scattered formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
💥 Russian troops defeated manpower and hardware of one jaeger brigade, one airmobile brigade, one airborne brigade, two mechanised brigades, two air assault brigades, two assault regiments of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, one marine brigade, one territorial defence brigade, the Azov Special Forces Brigades, and onr National Guard brigade near Verovka, Annovka, Sergeyevka, Artemovka, Toretskoye, Belitskoye, Rodinskoye, Novoaleksandrovka (Donetsk People's Republic), and Novopavlovka (Dnepropetrovsk region).
▪️ The enemy losses were more than 455 troops, U.S.-made Abrams and German-made Leopard tanks, two armoured fighting vehicles, four pickup trucks, one field artillery system, and one electronic reconnaissance station.
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🪖 Assault detachments of the Ulyanovsk Airborne Formation improve their skills at a training ground in Zaporozhye region.
The training includes theoretical and practical exercises aimed at developing skills of shooting, camouflaging, observing, and acting in various conditions.
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🏳️ AFU POW told that due to great losses in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, their command sent to forward cooks and paramedics.
▫️ In 2023, Junior Sergeant Aleksey Klimko joined the military unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Dnepropetrovsk to work in the kitchen. Two years later, he was discharged from the rear and sent to the combat unit.
'The representatives of the 35th Brigade arrived and began to take everyone they could. We're all in our 40s. I perfectly realised: we will be just poor bloody infantry. And I'm not the only one. Since November 2024, groups of 60 and 100 people have been sent from our unit. This was explained by the lack of people due to heavy losses... We worked well, without violations, but they took everyone away: paramedics, drivers, cooks. An order came, and they selected someone from the list and sent them. This is happening in all the rear units, all over Ukraine. There is no one to take... We were abandoned like kittens. We ended up in a basement near Dimitrov,' the POW recalls.
💪 Unmanned systems specialists work effectively
00:00 Tsentr Group's UAV teams hit the AFU firing positions and fortified positions in Dimitrov (Donetsk People's Republic).
00:07 FPV drone operators of the Novorossiysk-based Mountain Airborne Formation thwarted enemy rotation in Sumy region.
00:17 Vostok Group's drones tracked and destroyed a Bogdana self-propelled artillery system near Gulyaypole in Zaporozhye region.
00:45 Attack UAV operators of the Sever Group of Forces hit an mortar and pickup trucks of the AFU in Sumy region.
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🎖🎖 by Russian Defence Ministry on progress of special military operation as of 20 December 2025
Part 2 (👉 see Part 1)
↗️ The Vostok Group of Forces continued advancing into the depth of enemy defence. Russian troops inflicted damage on formations of one mechanised brigade, one assault brigade, two assault regiments of the AFU, and one territorial defence brigade close to Andreyevka, Velikomikhaylovka (Dnepropetrovsk region), Gulyaypole, Kosovtsevo, and Ternovatoye (Zaporozhye region).
▪️ The AFU losses amounted to over 260 troops, one armoured fighting vehicle, and 10 motor vehicles.
💥 The Dnepr Group of Forces engaged formations of one mechanised brigade, two coastal defence brigades of the AFU, and one territorial defence brigade near Orekhov, Razumovka (Zaporozhye region), Nikolskoye, and Tyaginka (Kherson region).
▪️ Up to 65 troops, one armoured fighting vehicle, 16motor vehicles, two electronic warfare stations, one ammunition depot, and two fuel depots have been destroyed.
✈️ Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack drones, missile troops, and artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have inflicted damage on the Ukrainian military industry enterprise, energy facilities, transport and storage infrastructure used in the interests of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, military hardware convoys, assembly, storage, and launch areas of long-range unmanned aerial vehicles, as well as temporary deployment areas of Ukrainian armed formations and foreign mercenaries in 152 areas.
🎯 Air defence systems shot down four HIMARS MLRS projectiles, one Neptune long-range missile, and 118 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
📊 In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the enemy has lost:
▫️ 669 aircraft,
▫️ 283 helicopters,
▫️ 103,985 unmanned aerial vehicles,
▫️ 640 anti-aircraft missile systems,
▫️ 26,619 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles,
▫️ 1,633 MLRS combat vehicles,
▫️ 32,038 field artillery guns and mortars,
▫️ 49,546 support military vehicles.
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⚡️ The Tsentr Group's units liberated Svetloye in the Donetsk People's Republic and continued to neutralise the encircled enemy formations in Dimitrov in the Donetsk People's Republic,
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🎯 Tsentr Group's Buk-M2 SAM system crews of the 297th Guards Air Defence Missile Brigades intercepted two HIMARS MLRS projectiles and thwarted an AFU attempt to hit Russian units in Krasnoarmeysk direction.
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▫️ Russian President Vladimir Putin summed up the results of the year and answered questions from journalists and residents of the country about the situation on the front lines of the special military operation and the work of defence industry enterprises in the context of the modern "drone war". The issues of supplying the army with UAVs were touched upon, as well as the topic of social guarantees for participants of the special operation and their family members.
▫️ In response to terrorist attacks launched by Ukraine against civilian facilities in Russia, from 13 to 19 December, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation delivered one massive and six group strikes by precision weaponry, including Kinzhal hypersonic air-launched ballistic missiles, as a result of which losses were inflicted on Ukrainian defence industry enterprises, power facilities, ensuring their operation, transport and port infrastructure, used by the AFU, an assembly and testing centre of uncrewed surface vehicles of the Ukrainian Main Directorate of Intelligence, long-range unmanned aerial vehicle assembly workshops and storages, POL and ammunition depots, temporary deployment areas of Ukrainian armed formations and foreign mercenaries.
▫️ The Russian Defence Ministry shows footage of tankmen and UAV operators of the Unmanned Systems Forces in action.
▫️Servicemen shared details of liberation of Peschanoye and Gerasimovka in Dnepropetrovsk region.
▫️Servicemen of the Tsentr Group of Forces evacuated five residents of Krasnoarmeysk.
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🎮 Units of Unmanned Systems Forces in action
00:00 Molniya-2 fixed-wing attack UAV teams of the 58th Guards Combined Arms Arms as part of the Dnepr Group of Forces hit buildings and manpower of the enemy in Zaporozhye region.
00:12 UAV teams of the 5th Separate Guards Motorised Rifle Brigade as part of the Tsentr Group of Forces wiped out manpower and firing points of the AFU formations in Krasnoarmeysk direction.
00:15 Drone teams of the Vostok Group of Forces thwarted an attempt to launch a counterattack by the AFU in Gulyaipole.
00:58 Drone teams of the Sever Group of Forces destroyed a concealed motor vehicle, a ground robotic system, and repeater antennas of the enemy in Kharkov region.
01:11 FPV drone teams of the 27th Separate Guards Motorised Rifle Brigade as part of the Zapad Group of Forces delivered food supplies to assault detachments in Kupyansk direction.
01:18 UAV operators of the Yug Group of Forces destroyed a shelter with the enemy's manpower in Seversk direction.
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🏳️ Captured Ukrainian serviceman Oleg Khristenko told about the state of the AFU in encircled Dimitrov (Donetsk People's Republic):
'There are a lot of casualties, a lot of FPV drones flying around. Our command sends everyone to positions. They send people and they either get captured, or killed. I would recommend men to surrender as the city is encircled, there is no way out.'
⚙️Kuriyer ground robotic system operators of paratroopers from Ulyanovsk ensure logistic support of forward airborne units in Orekhov direction (Zaporozhye region).
Apart from logistics, ground robotic system operators perform reconnaissance and dispose of explosive hazards in logistic routes
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