In this weekly report from the MoD of the Russian Federation of the conrinuation of the SMO, the Armed Forces of Ukraine had loses of 12,815 soldiers and 17 surrendered to the Russian Forces.
From 18 to 24 January 2025, the Russian Armed Forces have carried out eight group strikes by high-precision weapons and attack unmanned aerial vehicles, which have hit critical gas and power infrastructure facilities that support the work of the Ukrainian defence industry as well as targets of the Ukrainian defence industry.
In addition, weapons depots, infrastructure of military airfields, assembly workshop, storage areas of strike drones, and temporary deployment areas of Ukrainian armed groups were hit.
▫️Over the past week, units of the Sever Group of Forces continued to eliminate AFU formations on the territory of Kursk region.
Aviation and drone strikes, and artillery fire hit manpower and hardware of a tank brigade, a heavy mechanised brigade, four mechanised brigades, two air assault brigades of the AFU, a marine brigade, and three territorial defence brigades.
In Kharkov direction, Russian units hit formations of an AFU motorised infantry brigade and a national guard brigade.
During the week, in the area of responsibility of the Sever Group of Forces, the enemy suffered losses of up to 2,300 troops, 15 tanks, including two U.S.-made Abrams tanks, 69 armoured fighting vehicles, including a U.S.-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicle. Russian troops destroyed 127 motor vehicles, 34 field artillery guns, including a U.S.-made 155-mm M777 howitzer.
▫️The Zapad Group of Forces liberated Novoyegorovka of the Lugansk People's Republic and Zapadnoye of Kharkov region.
Russian units hit manpower and hardware of four mechanised brigades, two airmobile brigades, a jaeger brigade, a mountain assault brigade, an assault brigade of the AFU, a territorial defence brigade, and a national guard brigade.
The AFU losses amounted to more than 3,260 troops, five tanks, 35 armoured fighting vehicles, including ten M113 armoured personnel carriers, two U.S.-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, and 71 motor vehicles. Forty nine field artillery guns, including 15 manufactured by NATO countries, three electronic warfare stations, and eight ammunition depots were eliminated.
▫️Units of the Yug Group of Forces improved the tactical situation. Strikes were delivered at formations of three mechanised brigades, two assault brigades, a motorised infantry brigade, and an airmobile brigade of the AFU, and a national guard brigade.
The AFU losses in this direction during the week amounted to up to 1,680 troops, seven armoured fighting vehicles, including U.S.-made M113 and HMMWV armoured fighting vehicles, 21 motor vehicles, 17 field artillery guns, including five western-made artillery guns. Three electronic warfare stations and 13 ammunition depot were neutralised.
▫️The Tsentr Group of Forces' units continued advancing into the depths of enemy defences and liberated Petropavlovka, Vozdvizhenka, Volkovo, Solyonoye, Timofeyevka, and Shevchenko (Donetsk People's Republic).
Russian troops engaged units of a heavy mechanised brigade, seven mechanised brigades, a motorised infantry brigade of the AFU, two national guard brigades, three territorial defence brigades, and the Lyut Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian National Police.
The losses of Ukrainian formations amounted to more than 4,050 troops, two tanks, 28 armoured fighting vehicles, including seven U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carriers, a Finnish-made Pasi armoured personnel carrier, a French-made VAB armoured vehicle, and a U.S. HMMWV armoured fighting vehicle. Forty six motor vehicles and 26 field artillery guns were eliminated.
▫️The Vostok Group of Forces has liberated Vremevka (Donetsk People's Republic).
Four mechanised brigades, an air assault brigade of the AFU, a marine brigade, three territorial defence brigades, and a national guard brigade were defeated.
The AFU losses amounted to more than 1,070 troops, seven tanks, ten armoured fighting vehicles, including a U.S.-made MaxxPro armoured fighting vehicle, 14 motor vehicles, and 18 field artillery guns, including eight manufactured by NATO countries.
▫️The Dnepr Group of Forces engaged manpower and hardware of a mechanised brigade, three coastal defence brigades of the AFU, two marine brigades, a territorial defence brigade, and a national guard brigade.
The AFU losses amounted to more than 455 troops, an armoured fighting vehicle, 46 motor vehicles, six field artillery guns, seven electronic warfare stations, and six ammunition depots.
▫️Over the past week, air defence systems have shot down five French-made Hammer guided bombs, 17 U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS shells, 752 fixed-wng unmanned aerial vehicles, including 218 within the past 24 hours and 174 of them outside the special military operation zone.
▫️Over the past week, 17 Ukrainian servicemen have surrendered on the line of contact.
▫️In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 652 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 41,395 unmanned aerial vehicles, 590 anti-aircraft missile systems, 20,829 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,510 MLRS combat vehicles, 20,913 field artillery guns and mortars, and 30,758 units of support military vehicles have been neutralised.
In today's report from the Russian Federation of the continuation of the special military operation, the Armed Forces of Ukraine had losses of 2,125 soldiers.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
▫️In Liptsy and Volchansk directions, units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted losses on units of the AFU 57th Motorised Infantry Brigade, 92nd Assault Brigade, and 36th Marine Brigade near Glubokoye, Lipsy, and Volchansk (Kharkov region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 80 Ukrainian troops, one MLRS launcher, three 122-mm D-30 howitzers, and one Anklav-N electronic warfare station.
▫️Units of the Zapad Group of Forces improved the tactical situation and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the AFU 44th, 67th, 115th mechanised brigades, 3rd Assault Brigade, 103rd, 110th territorial defence brigades, and 1st National Guard Brigade near Tabayevka (Kharkov region), Stelmakhovka, Rozovka, Nadiya, Nevskoye (Lugansk People's Republic), Torskoye (Donetsk People's...
Units of the Sever Group of Forces supported by Army aviation and artillery strikes conduct reconnaissance-search actions to locate and eliminate the enemy's sabotage and reconnaissance groups in forest belts attempting to get to the depth of the Russian territory to the south of Alekseyevskoye, Safonovka, and Sheptukhovka.
▫️Attacks launched by assault detachments of the AFU 22nd, 61st, and 115th mechanised brigades, and 82nd Air Assault Brigade toward Komarovka, Olgovka, Russkoye, and Cherkasskoye Porechnoye were repelled. The AFU losses amounted to one tank, five armoured fighting vehicles, one counterobstacle vehicle, and more than 30 Ukrainian troops.
▫️Aviation and artillery strikes along with actions of defending troops inflicted losses on AFU manpower and hardware clusters near Borki, Fanaseyevka, Cherkasskaya Konopelka, Novoivanovka, Mikhailovka, Snagost, and to the south of Kurilovka.
▫️One U.S.-made M270 MLRS launcher was destroyed by a missile strike near Bezdrik (Sumy ...
The banner of the unit was captured in battle by the Rifle Battalion of the 1st Guards Slavic Brigade.
Also, the Storm unit of the 1st Slavyanskaya captured the next object “Cheburashka”, and the 2nd battalion captured the next dacha area (in front of the Khimik microdistrict).
In addition, Russian fighters today cut the road from Lastochkino to Avdeevsky coke plant.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the operation to neutralise AFU formations on the territory of Kursk region.
▫️During the offensive, the Sever Group of Forces inflicted fire damage on units of a tank brigade, a heavy-mechanised brigade, seven mechanised brigades, five air assault brigades, a marine brigade, four territorial defence brigades, and three assault regiments of the Armed Forces of Ukraine close to Gologlevka, Goncharovka, Guyevo, Zaoleshenka, Kazachya Loknya, Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Loknya, Makhnovka, Novaya Sorochina, Nikolskiy, Oleshnya, Rubanshchina, and Sudzha. Three enemy counter-attacks were repelled.
▫️Operational-Tactical, Army, and Artillery strikes engaged AFU manpower and hardware close to Bondarevka, Zamostye, Kositsa, Malaya Lokya, Martynovka, Melovoy, Mirny, Starya Sorochina, Cherkasskoye Porechnoye as well as Basovka, Belodody, Veselovka, Zhuravka, Novenkoye, Obody, and Yunakovka in Sumy region.
▫️Within the past 24 hours, the AFU ...
In this report from the MoD of the Russian Federation of the continuation of the special military operation, the Armed Forces of Ukraine had loses of 1,080 soldiers.
▫️In Kharkov direction, the Sever Group of Forces hit formations of two territorial defence brigades close to Izbitskoye and Volchansk (Kharkov region).
The AFU lost up to 40 troops, an armoured personnel carrier, an artillery gun, and an electronic warfare station.
▫️As a result of decisive actions, the Zapad Group of Forces liberated Novolyubovka (Lugansk People's Republic).
Russian units hit manpower and hardware of four mechanised brigades, an assault brigade of the AFU, and a national guard brigade close to Topoli, Kondrashovka, Golubovka, Novay Kruglyakovka, Borovaya, Shiykovka (Kharkov region), Yampol (Donetsk People's Republic) as well as Serebryansky forestry.
The enemy's losses amounted to more than 200 troops, a U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carrier, five motor vehicles, and five field artillery guns, three of them ...
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the operation to neutralise AFU formations on the territory of Kursk region.
▫️ During offensive actions, the Sever Group of Forces engaged units of one tank brigade, one heavy mechanised brigade, six mechanised brigades, one mountain assault brigade, four air assault brigades, one marine brigade, three territorial defence brigades, and three assault regiments of the Armed Forces of Ukraine close to Gogolevka, Guyevo, Goncharovka, Zaoleshenka, Kazachya Loknya, Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Loknya, Malaya Loknya, Makhnovka, Mirny, Nikolsky, Oleshnya, and Sudzha. Two counter-attacks launched by enemy units were repelled.
▫️ Operational-tactical and army aviation and artillery fire hit enemy manpower and hardware close to Agronom, Kolmakov, Kositsa, Kubatkin, Martynovka, Melovoy, Nikolayevka, Staraya Sorochina, Cherkasskoye Porechnoye, as well as Basovka, Belovody, Varachino, Zhuravka, Miropolye, Novenkoye, and Yunakovka in Sumy region.
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