Situation Reports Part 2 - 2025-06-22
Top News Today for Russian Ukrainian War
▫️As a result of resolute actions, units of the Zapad Group of Forces liberated Moskovka (Kharkov region). Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov congratulated the command and personnel of the 27th Separate Guards Motorised Rifle Sevastopol Red Banner Brigade named after the 60th anniversary of the formation of the USSR on the liberation of Moskovka in Kharkov region.
▫️ From 14 to 20 June, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out six group strikes with high-precision weapons and attack drones, as a result of which Ukrainian defence industry enterprises, fuel and energy infrastructure maintaining the AFU, air defence radars, arsenals, production workshops, depots, and launch sites of attack UAVs as well as temporary deployment areas of Ukrainian formations, nationalists, and foreign mercenaries were hit.
▫️In accordance with the agreements reached on 2 June in Istanbul, a group of Russian servicemen was returned from the territory controlled by the Kiev regime.
▫️The Russian Defence Ministry shows footage of artillery guns, S-300V SAM systems, and UAV pilots in action during the special military operation.
▫️The Pacific Fleet ships conducted artillery firing during planned exercise in the Pacific Ocean.
#TopNews
🔹 Russian Defence Ministry
Posted: 2025-06-21T11:36:37 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: MoD Russia
🪖 Servicemen of the Tsentr and Dnepr groups of forces practice assaults on AFU fortifications at training grounds in a rear area of the special military operation zone.
💥To bring the training closer to real-live combat scenarios, various imitation means are used and munitions are exploded. As a result, this gets the servicemen into the necessary psychological state, thus preparing them to combat.
🪖 Particular attention is paid to organisation of cohesion between the servicemen. Each serviceman must know what he has to do and his role during a combat task, as well as understand actions of neighboring groups and fire support teams.
🔹 Russian Defence Ministry
Posted: 2025-06-21T11:36:37 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: MoD Russia
🎮 UAV operators eliminate enemy targets and adjust artillery strikes.
00:00 Molniya attack UAV teams of the Vostok Group of Forces thwarted an attempt of the enemy to rotate troops near Zaporozhye (Donetsk People's Republic).
00:14 Drone teams of the Vostok Group of Forces eliminated one radar and manpower of the enemy in South Donetsk direction.
00:21 Reconnaissance drone teams adjusted strikes of the Yug Group of Forces artillerymen, three UAV command posts were destroyed near Seversk.
00:54 Drone teams of the Tsentr Group of Forces special operations formation neutralised the enemy's manpower and cleared a path for assault detachments in Krasnoarmeysk direction.
🔹 Russian Defence Ministry
Posted: 2025-06-21T11:36:37 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: MoD Russia
⚡️ Units of the Vostok Groups of Forces continued advancing to the depth of the enemy's defences and, as a result of decisive actions, liberated Zaporozhye (Donetsk People's Republic).
🔹 Russian Defence Ministry
Posted: 2025-06-21T11:36:37 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: MoD Russia
⚡️ At night, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation delivered a group strike by air-, ground-, and sea-based precision weapons and attack drones at infrastructure of a military airfield and a facility of the fuel-energy complex, which provides fuel for the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Donbas.
✅The goal of the strike was achieved. All the assigned targets were engaged.
🔹 Russian Defence Ministry
Posted: 2025-06-21T11:36:37 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: MoD Russia
🎖🎖 by Russian Defence Ministry on progress of special military operation as of 21 June 2025
▫️ At night, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation delivered a group strike by air-, ground-, and sea-based precision weapons and attack drones at infrastructure of a military airfield and a facility of the fuel-energy complex, which provides fuel for the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Donbas.
✅ The goal of the strike was achieved. All the assigned targets were engaged.
↗️ Units of the Sever Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware clusters of two mechanised brigades, one jaeger brigade, two air assault brigades, and one assault regiment of the AFU near Bessalovka, Khoten, Yastrebinoye, Pershe Travnya, Andreyevka, and Novaya Sech (Sumy region).
💥 In Kharkov direction, losses were inflicted on units of one motorised infantry brigade of the AFU, one territorial defence brigade, and one national guard brigade near Tsupovka, Ivashki, and Artelnoye (Kharkov region).
▪️ The AFU losses amounted to up to 160 troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, nine motor vehicles, four field artillery guns, and one ammunition depot.
📍 Units of the Zapad Group of Forces improved the tactical situation. Losses were inflicted on formations of three mechanised brigades, one assault brigade of the AFU, and one territorial defence brigade near Glushkovka, Kupyansk, Petropavlovka (Kharkov region), and Maslyakovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
▪️ The AFU losses amounted to more than 220 troops, one tank, two armoured fighting vehicles, 14 motor vehicles, two artillery guns, including one U.S.-made 155-mm M777 howitzer, and four ammunition depots.
📍 Units of the Yug Group of Forces improved the tactical situation. Losses were inflicted on manpower and hardware of two mechanised bridages, one mountain-assault brigade, one airmobile bridage of the AFU, and one territorial defence brigade near Konstantinovka, Vasyukovka, Fedorovka, and Chasov Yar (Donetsk People's Republic).
▪️ The AFU losses amounted to more than 180 troops, one tank, one armoured fighting vehicle, two motor vehicles, two field artillery guns, one electronic warfare station, and four materiel depots.
📍 Units of the Tsentr Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions. Losses were inflicted on formations of three mechanised brigades, two air assault brigades of the AFU, one marine brigade, and two territorial defence brigades near Krasnoarmeysk, Petrovskogo, Novoeconomicheskoye, Poltavka, Dimitrov, Muravka, Novopavlovka, and Grodovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
▪️ The AFU losses amounted to up to 515 troops, five armoured fighting vehicles, three pickup trucks, and one artillery gun.
👉 See Part 2
🔹 Russian Defence Ministry
Posted: 2025-06-21T11:36:37 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: MoD Russia
🎖🎖 by Russian Defence Ministry on progress of special military operation as of 21 June 2025
Part 2 (👉 see Part 1)
🚩 Units of the Vostok Groups of Forces continued advancing to the depth of the enemy's defences and, as a result of decisive actions, liberated Zaporozhye (Donetsk People's Republic).
💥 Losses were inflicted on manpower and hardware of two mechanised brigades of the AFU, one marine brigade, and two territorial defence brigades near Uspenovka, Temirovka, Olgovskoye, Poltavka, and Malinovka (Zaporozhye region).
▪️The AFU losses amounted to more than 200 troops, three armoured fighting vehicles, nine motor vehicles, and two artillery guns.
💥 Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted losses on formations of two mechanised brigades, one coastal defence brigade of the AFU, and one territorial defence brigade near Novodanilovka, Kamenskoye (Zaporozhye region), Lvovo, and Antonovka (Kherson region).
▪️ The AFU losses amounted to up to 75 troops, five motor vehicles, one artillery gun, one electronic warfare station, and one ammunition depot.
✈️ Operational-Tactical Aviation, strike unmanned aerial vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces struck production sites, workshops, and depots of attack UAVs, ammunition and materiel depots as well as temporary deployment areas of AFU units, nationalists, and foreign mercenaries in 142 areas.
🎯 Air defence units shot down four U.S.-made JDAM guided aviation bombs and 97 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
📊 In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the AFU lost:
🔹 663 aircraft,
🔹 283 helicopters,
🔹 64,682 unmanned aerial vehicles,
🔹 611 anti-aircraft missile systems,
🔹 23,997 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles,
🔹 1,572 MLRS combat vehicles,
🔹 26,451 field artillery guns and mortars,
🔹 37,102 units of support military vehicles.
🔹 Russian Defence Ministry
Posted: 2025-06-21T11:36:37 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: MoD Russia
Servicemen of the 36th Separate Guards Motorised Rifle Brigade as part the Vostok Group of Forces continued advancing to the depth of the enemy's defences.
🚩 During combat, units of the AFU 37th Separate Marine Brigade suffered heavy losses and left Zaporozhye in the Donetsk People's Republic. After mopping up buildings, basements, and performing mine disposal of the area, our assault detachment set up Russian flags.
❗️ The liberation of Zaporozhye is an important step on the road to complete liberation of the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic.
🔹 Russian Defence Ministry
Posted: 2025-06-21T11:36:37 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: MoD Russia
Precise strikes of Geran UAVs
💥 Geran UAV teams destroyed temporary deployment areas of units of the Lyut Separate Assault Brigade near Stepanovka (Donetsk People's Republic). Drone operators also wiped out several temporary deployment areas of the 36th Separate Motorised Infantry Brigade near Kleban-Byk and Yablonovka.
🔹 Russian Defence Ministry
Posted: 2025-06-21T11:36:37 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: MoD Russia
🛠 Repair company of Zapad Group of Forces continues to repair and service armoured hardware
The specialist repair motor vehicles, armoured wheeled and tracked hardware, replace engines and other complex units.
⚙️ Particular attention is paid to strengthening the armoured hardware to protect it from modern threats. A state-of-the-art anti-kamikaze drone protection system have been developed and is actively employed at the moment.
🔹 Russian Defence Ministry
Posted: 2025-06-21T11:36:37 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: MoD Russia
#UkraineRussiaWar
🌐 Place: #Muravka
🕰 Date: ~20.06.2025
📌 Coordinates: 00:48(48.176306,36.894141)
👩🚀 Squad: #Sudoplatov
📝 Description: Russian FPV drone strikes Ukrainian Armed Forces logistics in Muravka.
🖥 id: 21062025.0900
✉️source: https://t.me/sudoplatov_official/5508
Map: militarysummary.com
Boost The Channel
Posted: 2025-06-21T11:37:03 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Military Summary
#UkraineRussiaWar
🌐 Place: #Siversk
🕰 Date: ~20.06.2025
📌 Coordinates: 48.875413,38.085520
👩🚀 Squad:
📝 Description: Footage of the destruction of a Ukrainian armored fighting vehicle by a Russian drone strike in Siversk.
🖥 id: 21062025.0858
✉️source: https://t.me/SiberiaSpecial/3516
Map: militarysummary.com
Boost The Channel
Posted: 2025-06-21T11:37:03 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Military Summary
#UkraineRussiaWar
🌐 Place: #Zaporizhzhia
🕰 Date: ~21.06.2025
📌 Coordinates: 48.030983,36.774761
👩🚀 Squad: #36MSB
📝 Description: Russian Armed Forces servicemen raise the flag in the eastern part of Zaporizhzhia.
🖥 id: 21062025.1206
✉️source: https://t.me/voin_dv/15598
Map: militarysummary.com
Boost The Channel
Posted: 2025-06-21T11:37:03 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Military Summary
#UkraineRussiaWar
🌐 Place: #DonetskRegion
🕰 Date: ~21.06.2025
📌 Coordinates: 00:04(48.460176,37.619153)
00:17(48.429234,37.670470)
00:30(48.418307,37.665430)
00:41(48.426544,37.664253)
👩🚀 Squad:
📝 Description: Russian Geran strike temporary deployment points of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Donetsk region.
🖥 id: 21062025.1510
✉️source: https://t.me/The_Wrong_Side/24296
Map: militarysummary.com
Boost The Channel
Posted: 2025-06-21T11:37:03 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Military Summary
⚡️Two Majors #Summary for the morning of June 21, 2025
▪️ At night, the enemy counted more than a hundred of our attack UAVs, they hit Odessa, Krivoy Rog and Kremenchuk (the enemy claims they hit an energy infrastructure facility). Also, Iskanders and hypersonic Kinzhals were detected in Kremenchuk by the enemy air defense, ours carried out a combined strike.
▪️ The Russian Defense Ministry reported that from 10 p.m. to 11.55 p.m., 23 Ukrainian UAVs were destroyed over the Belgorod, Kursk, and Voronezh regions . In the Voronezh region, several more enemy aircraft-type UAVs were shot down late at night.
▪️ On the Kursk section of the border, the enemy continues to send assault groups daily in the Tyotkinsky and Glushkovsky directions. With persistence worthy of a more reasonable application, the Ukrainian Armed Forces send assault troops from Ryzhevka, Bessalovka, and Pavlovka every day. Enemy infantry groups have been destroyed every day for more than a month by drone strikes, artillery, and small arms battles.
▪️ In the Sumy direction, the enemy is conducting counterattacks, heavy fighting is underway, but the Ukrainian Armed Forces are unable to change the LoC. Heavy fighting is underway in Yunakovka.
▪️ In the Kharkov direction, the meat grinder continues on the Volchansk and Liptsov sections of the front. Our forces destroyed eight assault groups of the AFU along with armored and automotive equipment. GrV "North" writes about 25 cleared houses in Volchansk and our assault actions in the village of Volchansk Khutor.
▪️ In the Belgorod region , on the Novoaleksandrovka-Stanovoye road, a moving passenger car was attacked by an enemy drone, a married couple was injured. Nizhneye Berezovo-Vtoroye, Novaya Tavolzhanka, Lozovoye, Oktyabrsky were hit.
▪️ In the Konstantinovsky direction, the 33rd motorized rifle regiment of the 20th guards motorized rifle division is storming Yablonovka. Our forces have advanced along a wide front along forest belts west of Yablonovka in an area of an area, they are advancing east of Zarya, leveling the front.
▪️The envelopment of Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk) from the east continues. Our forces are advancing in the Koptevo area, conducting assault operations towards Novotroitskoye, in the Mirny area, leveling the front. Heavy fighting continues southwest of Pokrovsk near Kotlino, Udachny in the Novosergeevka area.
▪️ In the South - Donetsk direction, the 5th Army of the East Group of Forces is destroying enemy strongholds west of Vesyole. The situation of the AFU in Shevchenko is getting worse, our group of forces writes. In the area of responsibility of the 36th Army, we are advancing along forest belts southwest of Malinovka. The enemy tried to transfer reinforcements to the AFU in Perebudova from the direction of Karl Marx (Mirnoye), and was hit by our fire. The Russian Armed Forces are advancing north of Komar and west of Fyodorovka.
▪️ On the Zaporozhye Front , our troops are advancing in Malinovka (15 km east of Gulyaipole). The enemy acknowledges the advance of the Russian Armed Forces along Pershotravnevaya Street, complains about the assault on the area of the Holy Vvedensky Church. Fierce fighting is underway.
▪️In the DPR, during the day, as a result of an attack by an AFU UAV on a service vehicle of employees of the DPR State Unitary Enterprise "Voda Donbassa" on the M-03 Svetlodarsk - Mironovsky highway, the head of the Mironovsky production complex of the Yenakiyevo PUVKH of the DPR State Unitary Enterprise "Voda Donbassa" was killed. Three more employees of the enterprise were wounded. The Ukrainian Armed Forces shelled the region from NATO artillery of 155 mm calibre, including using cluster munitions and attack UAVs.
The summary was compiled by: ⚡️Two Majors
Posted: 2025-06-21T11:41:24 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Two Majors - English Channel
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