Russian Defence Ministry Reports On The Progress Of The Special Military Operation, January 25, 2025

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Russian Defence Ministry Reports On The Progress Of The Special Military Operation, January 25, 2025

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.

• In Kharkov direction, units of the Sever Group of Forces hit formations of one AFU motorised infantry brigade close to Volchansk (Kharkov region).

The AFU losses were up to 45 troops, one armoured fighting vehicle, two motor vehicles, and one field artillery gun.

• Units of the Zapad Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions. Russian troops inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of three mechanised brigades, one mountain assault brigade, two territorial defence brigades, and one National Guard brigade close to Dvurechnaya, Glushkovka, Zeleny Gai, Novoosinovo (Kharkov region), Torskoye, and Yampol (Donetsk People’s Republic).

The AFU losses were more than 400 troops, five armoured fighting vehicles, including two U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carriers, seven motor vehicles, five field artillery guns, two of them made by NATO countries. One electronic warfare station was eliminated.

• Units of the Yug Group of Forces improved the tactical situation. Russian troops delivered strikes at units of three mechanised brigades, one motorised infantry brigade, and one National Guard brigade close to Belogorovka, Dachnoye, Orekhovo-Vasilyovka, Konstantinovka, Zelenovka, and Chasov Yar (Donetsk People’s Republic).

The AFU losses were up to 210 troops, one U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carrier, two motor vehicles, and one field artillery gun.

• The Tsentr Group of Forces’ units captured more advantageous lines and positions, inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of three mechanised brigades, one motorised infantry brigade, two territorial defence brigades, and the Lyut Brigade of the National Police of Ukraine near Zelenoye, Lysovka, Krymskoye, Petrovka, Dzerzhinsk, Novovasilevka, and Novoyelizavetovka (Donetsk People’s Republic).

The AFU losses were up to 550 troops, one tank, five armoured fighting vehicles, three motor vehicles, and four field artillery guns.

• The Vostok Group of Forces’ units continued advancing to the depths of enemy defences, defeated formations of two mechanised brigades, one air assault brigade of the AFU, and one territorial defence brigade near Konstantinopol, Razliv, Velikaya Novosyolka (Donetsk People’s Republic), and Temirovka (Zaporozhye region).

The AFU losses were more than 170 troops, one armoured fighting vehicle, and two motor vehicles. Six field artillery guns were eliminated.

• Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces engaged manpower and hardware of three coastal defence brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Tokarevka, Antonovka, Yantarnoye, and Sadovoye (Kherson region).

The AFU losses were up to 45 troops and two motor vehicles.

• Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack unmanned aerial vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces struck the infrastructure of military airfields, UAV storage depots and sites where drones were prepared for combat employment as well as engaged manpower and hardware clusters in 132 areas.
• Air defence facilities shot down three U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles and 44 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
• In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 652 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 41,439 unmanned aerial vehicles, 590 anti-aircraft missile systems, 20,843 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,510 MLRS combat vehicles, 20,930 field artillery guns and mortars, and 30,776 units of support military vehicles have been neutralised.

Russian Defence Ministry reports on repelling AFU attempt to invade Russian territory in Kursk region (25 January 2025)

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the operation to neutralise an enemy group, which broke into the territory of Kursk region.

• During the offensive actions, the Sever Group of Forces’ units inflicted fire damage on formations of one tank brigade, one heavy mechanised brigade, four mechanised brigades, two air assault brigades, one marine brigade, and three territorial defence brigades of the AFU close to Viktorovka, Zaoleshenka, Kositsa, Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Malaya Loknya, Makhnovka, Mirny, Nikolayevka, Nikolayevo-Daryino, Nikolsky, Novaya Sorochina, Sverdlikovo, Sudzha, and Cherkasskoye Porechnoye.
• Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, artillery inflicted losses on enemy manpower and hardware close to Guyevo, Dmitryukov, Zazulevka, Kazachya Loknya, Kruglenkoye, Loknya, Melovoy, Nikolayevo-Daryino, Oleshnya, Sverdlikovo, Staraya Sorochina, Yuzhny as well as Basovka, Belovody, Zhuravka, Miropolye, and Yunakovka in Sumy region.

In the course of the day, the AFU losses were more than 360 troops, one tank, nine armoured fighting vehicles, 27 motor vehicles, one self-propelled artillery system, two mortars, one electronic warfare station as well as six UAV command posts and one ammunition depot. Five AFU servicemen surrendered.

• Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the AFU losses amounted to more than 54,820 troops, 319 tanks, 237 infantry fighting vehicles, 183 armoured personnel carriers, 1,622 armoured fighting vehicles, 1,629 motor vehicles, 389 artillery guns, 44 MLRS launchers, including 13 of HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the USA, 16 anti-aircraft missile launchers, eight transport-loading vehicles, 100 EW stations, 14 counter-battery warfare radars, four air defence radars, 32 units of engineering and other materiel, including 13 counterobstacle vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, nine armoured recovery vehicles, and one command post vehicle.

The operation to neutralise the AFU units is in progress.

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