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🎖🎖 by Russian Defence Ministry on progress of special military operation as of 25 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 two mechanised brigades of the AFU, one national guard brigade, one territorial defence brigade, and one border detachment of the Ukrainian border service near Kondratovka, Novaya Sech, Novovasilevka, Pavlovka, and Pisarevka (Sumy region). 💥 In Kharkov direction, units of two mechanised brigades and one motorised infantry brigade of the AFU have been hit near Izbitskoye, Rybalkino, and Staritsa (Kharkov region). ▪️The AFU losses amounted to up to 265 troops, two artillery guns, and 14 motor vehicles. Two Israeli-made RADA radars and three materiel depots were neutralised.   📍The Zapad Group of Forces improved the situation along the front line. The Group's formations inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of four mechanised brigades, one assault brigade, one airmobile brigade of the AFU, one territorial defence brigade, and one national guard brigades near Blagodatovka, Boguslavka, Grushevka, Kupyansk-Uzlovoy, Nechvolodovka, Novosergeyevka, Podoly (Kharkov region) and Drobyshevo (Donetsk People's Republic). ▪️Up to 220 troops, three armoured fighting vehicles, 27 motor vehicles, and three field artillery guns of the AFU have been neutralised. Three enemy ammunition depots were destroyed.   🚩 As a result of resolute actions, units of the Yug Group of Forces liberated Svyato-Pokrovskoye in the Donetsk People's Republic. 💥 Russian troops hit one mechanised brigade, one mountain assault brigade, one motorised infantry brigade of the AFU, and one marine brigade near Konstantinovka, Kramatorsk, Nikiforovka, and Reznikovka (Donetsk People's Republic). ▪️The enemy has lost more than 215 troops, one tank, six armoured fighting vehicles, 16 motor vehicles, two artillery guns, three ammunition depots, and five materiel depots.   ➡️ The Tsentr Group of Forces units continue to destroy the enemy surrounded in the city of Dimitrov (Donetsk People's Republic). ➡️ The attempt of the 82nd Airborne Brigade of the AFU to break through the defence in the south-east of Grishino (Donetsk People's Republic) to regain lost positions was thwarted. 💥 Russian troops inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of three mechanised brigades, one air assault brigade, one airborne brigade, one airmobile brigade, one jaeger brigade, one assault regiment of the AFU, one marine brigade, two territorial defence brigades, and one national guard brigade close to Belitskoye, Volnoye, Grishino, Gruzskoye, Ivanovka, Krivorozhye, Maryevka, Sergeyevka, Udachnoye, Shevchenko (Donetsk People's Republic) and Novopavlovka (Dnepropetrovsk region). ▪️The enemy losses amounted to more than 445 troops, one tank, one U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carrier, three armoured fighting vehicles, six motor vehicles, and five field artillery guns.   👉 See Part 2 🔹 Russian Defence Ministry

⚡️As a result of resolute actions, units of the Yug Group of Forces liberated Svyato-Pokrovskoye in the Donetsk People's Republic. 🔹 Russian Defence Ministry

💥 A T-72B3M tank crew (34th Separate Guards Motorised Rifle Brigade, Sever Group of Forces) hit AFU strongholds and thus ensured an intensive offensive of assault groups in Kharkov region. 🪖 Tank crews deployed in a firing position and fired AFU nationalists in defence. The first two shots hit the enemy's machine gun and his UAV command post. During a battle, a tank was attacked by an FPV drone and was hit by enemy artillery. Despite this, the tank crew continued to fire. 🪖 While tankmen were distracting the enemy, Russian assault detachments launched an attack and defeated an AFU stronghold. 💬 A platoon leader with the call sign 'Shtora' spoke about this mission. 🔹 Russian Defence Ministry

💥 Russian artillery wipes out enemy fortified areas 00:00 The Vostok Group's Grad MLRS crews eliminated enemy temporary deployment areas near Gulyaypole (Zaporozhye region). 00:28 Grad MLRS crews of the 27th Separate Motorised Rifle Brigade (1st Guards Tank Army, Zapad Group of Forces) hit temporary deployment areas, unmanned aerial vehicles command posts, and manpower of the AFU in Kharkov region. 00:39 A 2S4 Tyulpan heavy mortar crew of the Vostok Group of Forces destroyed deep concrete fortifications of the AFU in Gulyaypole in Zaporozhye region. 01:02 T-30 crews of a guards airborne formation from Tula (Sever Group of Forces) hit enemy fortified positions in Sumy region. 01:16 A Msta-S self-propelled artillery system (268th Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment, 27th Guards Motorised Rifle Division, Tsentr Group of Forces) eliminated a stronghold and an ammunition depot of the AFU in Krasnoarmeysk direction. 🔹 Russian Defence Ministry

📆 Top News Today ▫️ Units of the Vostok Group of Forces continued advancing into the depth of the enemy's defences and liberated Zarechnoye (Zaporozhye region). ▫️ Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack unmanned aerial vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces struck defence industry enterprises, fuel, power, and transport infrastructure objects, used by the AFU, as well as temporary deployment areas of Ukrainian armed formations and foreign mercenaries in 147 areas. ▫️ The Russian Defence Ministry shows footage of Grad MLRS crews, Pantsir-S air defence system crews, and operators of the Unmanned Systems Forces in action. ▫️ A ceremony of transferring motor vehicles and special hardware to volunteers of the BARS detachments, who perform tasks in the special military operation zone, took place on the territory of the Southern MD's military unit. #TopNews 🔹 Russian Defence Ministry

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💥 A Pantsir-S air defence system crew destroyed the enemy's UAV in the Vostok Group's area of responsibility 🔹 Russian Defence Ministry

🔥 Drone teams of Rubikon Centre eliminate more targets Drone operators of the Rubikon Centre destroyed motor vehicles, armoured hardware, artillery guns, ground robotic systems, elements of communications system as well as the enemy's UAVs operating in the air. 🔹 Russian Defence Ministry

🎯 Enemy troops get ambushed Drone teams destroyed a pickup truck and an electronic warfare station of the enemy in the special military operation zone. 🔹 Russian Defence Ministry

BARS units acquire new equipment and hardware ▫️ A ceremony of transferring motor vehicles and special hardware to volunteers of the BARS detachments, who perform tasks in the special military operation zone, took place on the territory of the Southern MD's military unit. 🤝 Representatives of the Main Organisational-Mobilisational Department of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation handed over the keys to cars and cross-country motorcycles to the detachments, and also handed over hardware systems for suppressing control channels of enemy unmanned aerial vehicles. 📱 In addition, the BARS detachments received sets of unmanned aerial vehicles, UAV detectors, thermal imagers, diesel generators, anti-drone blankets and other materiel. 🫡 At the end of the ceremony, the personnel, along with new weapons and military equipment, went to the area of the special military operation to complete their tasks. 🎮 01:08 ➡️ FPV drone operators of the Dnepr Group's BARS-37 Volunteer Detachment destroyed hardware, shelters, and UAV control posts of the AFU formations in Zaporozhye direction. 🔹 Russian Defence Ministry

🎯 Units of the Unmanned Systems Forces as part of the Tsentr Group of Forces deployed a Supercam UAV to adjust strikes, which destroyed armoured hardware and positions of the AFU formations in Krasnoarmeysk direction of the special military operation. 🔹 Russian Defence Ministry

💥 Precise strikes of Unmanned Systems Forces 00:00 FPV drone operators eliminated armoured hardware, manpower, and one heavy hexacopter of the AFU near Prilipka in Kharkov region. 00:34 Drone teams of the Vostok Group of Forces wiped out the enemy's manpower near Gulyaipole. 01:30 UAV teams of airborne units as part of the Dnepr Group of Forces delivered precise strikes at the AFU objects near Primorskoye and Stepnogorsk in Zaporozhye region. 🔹 Russian Defence Ministry

💥 Guardsmen of 51st Army eliminate AFU militants in Rodinskoye Units of the 9th Separate Guards Motorised Rifle Brigade as part of the Tsentr Group's 51st Guards Combined Arms Army neutralise manpower of AFU formations near Rodinskoye (Donetsk People's Republic). 🔹 Russian Defence Ministry

Enemy's speedboat fails to slip past our guardsmen 💥 A mortar team of the guards coastal defence formation as part of the Dnepr Group's 18th Combined Arms Army destroyed a speedboat of the AFU in the Dnepr River's delta in Kherson region. 🔹 Russian Defence Ministry

Units of the Vostok Group of Forces strengthen the bridgehead on the western bank of the Gaychur River. 🪖 While expanding the bridgehead on the western bank of the Gaychur River, assault detachments of the 36th Separate Guards Motorised Brigade as part of the Vostok Group's 29th Guards Combined Arms Arms captured Zarechnoye (Zaporozhye region). 💥 The servicemen mopped up the enemy's defensive area nine square kilometers in size on the border of Zaporozhye and Dnepropetrovsk regions near the Gaychur River. 🫡 Units of the Vostok Group of Forces captured a part of the road connecting Bratskoye and Ternovatoye. 🔹 Russian Defence Ministry

🎖🎖 by Russian Defence Ministry on progress of special military operation as of 24 December 2025 Part 2 (👉 see Part 1) 🪖 Units of the Tsentr Group of Forces continue to eliminate the encircled enemy troops in Dimitrov and mop up separate AFU formations near Rodinskoye (Donetsk People's Republic). 🔥 Losses were inflicted on manpower and hardware of four mechanised brigades, one jaeger brigade, one air assault brigade, one airborne brigade, one airmobile brigade, one assault brigade, two unmanned systems regiments, two assault regiments of the AFU, two marine brigades, two territorial defence brigades, the Azov Special Operations Brigade, and four national guard brigades near Udachnoye, Maryevka, Sergeyevka, Gruzskoye, Lenina, Ivanovka, Shevchenko, Volnoye, Belitskoye, Grishino (Donetsk People's Republic), and Novopavlovka (Dnepropetrovsk region). ▪️ The AFU losses amounted to more than 500 troops, one U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carrier, eight armoured fighting vehicles, seven motor vehicles, and three field artillery guns. 🚩 Units of the Vostok Group of Forces continued advancing into the depth of the enemy's defences and liberated Zarechnoye (Zaporozhye region). 💥 Losses were inflicted on manpower and hardware of six mechanised brigades, one assault brigade, two assault regiments of the AFU, and one territorial defence brigade near Ternovatoye, Vozdvizhenka, Pridorozhnoye, Lyubitskoye, Gulyaipole (Zaporozhye region), Gavrilovka, Aleksandrovka, and Pokrovskoye (Dnepropetrovsk region). ▪️ The AFU losses amounted to up to 245 troops, 17 motor vehicles, two field artillery guns, including one U.S.-made 155-mm Paladin self-propelled artillery system. One POL depot was destroyed. 🔥 Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted losses on formations of one mountain assault brigade of the AFU and one territorial defence brigade near Stepnogorsk, Grigorovka, Novoyakovlevka (Zaporozhye region), and Tokarevka (Kherson region). ▪️ The AFU losses amounted to more than 70 troops, 16 motor vehicles, two artillery guns, one electronic warfare station, one Israeli-made RADA radar station, one P-18 radar station for detecting aerial targets, six ammunition depots, and three materiel depots. ✈️ Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack unmanned aerial vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces struck defence industry enterprises, fuel, power, and transport infrastructure objects, used by the AFU, as well as temporary deployment areas of Ukrainian armed formations and foreign mercenaries in 147 areas. 🎯 Air defence units shot down nine guided aerial bombs, two U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles, and 335 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles. 📊 In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the enemy has lost: ▫️ 669 aircraft, ▫️ 283 helicopters, ▫️ 104,481 unmanned aerial vehicles, ▫️ 640 anti-aircraft missile systems, ▫️ 26,696 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, ▫️ 1,634 MLRS combat vehicles, ▫️ 32,122 field artillery guns and mortars, ▫️ 49,878 support military vehicles. 🔹 Russian Defence Ministry

🎖🎖 by Russian Defence Ministry on progress of special military operation as of 24 December 2025 The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation. 📍 The Sever Group of Forces improved the tactical situation. Losses were inflicted on formations of one heavy mechanised brigade, two mechanised brigades of the AFU, one territorial defence brigade, one national guard brigade, and two border security detachments of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine near Pavlovka, Staraya Guta, Kondratovka, Novovasilevka, Pisarevka, Novaya Sech, and Miropolye (Sumy region). 💥 In Kharkov direction, losses were inflicted on units of three mechanised brigades and one motorised infantry brigade of the AFU near Rybalkino, Staritsy, and Izbitskoye (Kharkov region). ▪️ The AFU losses amounted to up to 175 troops, three armoured fighting vehicles, and nine motor vehicles. Two materiel depots were destroyed. 📍 The Zapad Group of Forces improved the situation along the forward edge. Losses were inflicted on manpower and hardware of seven mechanised brigades, one airmobile brigade, one assault brigade of the AFU, one territorial defence brigade, and one national guard brigade near Monachinovka, Glushkovka, Pristen, Kupyansk-Uzlovoy, Novosergeyevka, Boguslavka, Blagodatovka (Kharkov region), Drobyshevo, and Krasny Liman (Donetsk People's Republic). ▪️ The AFU losses amounted to up to 210 troops, 10 armoured fighting vehicles, 14 motor vehicles, and one field artillery gun. Two ammunition depots were wiped out. 🪖 The Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions. Losses were inflicted on formations of two mechanised brigades, one motorised infantry brigade, one mountain assault brigade of the AFU, one marine brigade, and one territorial defence brigade near Alekseyevo-Druzhkovka, Reznikovka, Dolgaya Balka, Konstantinovka, Kramatorsk, and Kurtovka (Donetsk People's Republic). ▪️ The AFU losses amounted to more than 220 troops, one Italian-made Puma armoured personnel carrier, one U.S.-made Stryker armoured personnel carrier, two armoured fighting vehicles, 14 motor vehicles, two artillery guns, including one U.S.-made 155-mm Paladin self-propelled artillery system, and one materiel depot. 👉 See Part 2 🔹 Russian Defence Ministry

⚡️ Units of the Vostok Group of Forces continued advancing into the depth of the enemy's defences and liberated Zarechnoye (Zaporozhye region). 🔹 Russian Defence Ministry

Servicemen of assault detachments as part of the Tsentr Group of Forces spoke about mop up of AFU troops in Svetloye. 💬 Servicemen of the 2nd Guards Combined Arms Army as part of the Tsentr Group of Forces shared details of liberation of Svetloye in the Donetsk People's Republic.

'Everything happened fast, as the AFU troops hid mainly in basements, in private houses. We steadily flushed them out by grenades,' said a serviceman of an assault company.

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💥 Grad MLRS hits enemy troops ⚔️ A Grad MLRS crew of the Vostok Group of Forces delivered a strike by rocket projectiles at the enemy's strongholds in Gulyaipole. 🔹 Russian Defence Ministry