Situation Reports Part 3 - 2025-06-06
Top news from Russian Defense Ministry, Telegram Reports, Commentary.
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▫️ Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation Andrei Belousov held a meeting on mine clearance operations in border areas.
▫️Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov congratulated the command and personnel of the 283rd Motorised Rifle Regiment on the liberation of Redkodub (Donetsk People's Republic).
▫️ As a result of intensive operations, units of the Sever Group of Forces have completed the liberation of Kondratovka (Sumy region).
▫️ An Iskander-M missile system wiped out the enemy's IRIS-T SAM system in Dnepropetrovsk region.
▫️ The Russian Defence Ministry shows tank crews, Grad MLRS systems, and attack UAV pilots in action.
▫️ Servicemen of the Baltic Fleet undergo planned exercises to rescue a ship captured by terrorists.
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🔹 Russian Defence Ministry
Posted: 2025-06-05T15:27:16 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: MoD Russia
💥 Giatsint-B howitzer destroys enemy UAV command post in Orekhov direction
🎯 The Russian airborne artillerymen fired from a closed firing position at a range of over 20 kilometres. Detection of the enemy and further adjustment of the gun were carried out with the help of UAV units during air reconnaissance.
🔹 Russian Defence Ministry
Posted: 2025-06-05T15:27:16 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: MoD Russia
🎮UAV operators continue to launch precise strikes at enemy
00:00 Servicemen of the Zapad Group's Special Operations Forces eliminated one AFU UAV team and radio relay stations increasing the range of the use of the enemy's UAVs.
00:31 UAV operators of a reconnaissance battalion of the Tsentr Group of Forces supported offensive actions of assault detachments.
01:18 The Yug Group's FPV drones wiped out one AFU communication antenna, and thwarted the rotation of enemy units near Konstantinovka.
🔹 Russian Defence Ministry
Posted: 2025-06-05T15:27:16 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: MoD Russia
New trophies from Sumy region
At the border of Sumy region, servicemen of the 22nd Motorised Rifle Regiment of the Sever Group of Forces evacuated destroyed foreign hardware of Ukrainian militants.
Among the captured hardware were:
▫️two M1 Abrams tanks,
▫️two International MaxxPro armoured personnel carriers,
▫️one Stryker armoured fighting vehicle,
▫️one Challenger armoured recovery vehicle.
🔹 Russian Defence Ministry
Posted: 2025-06-05T15:27:16 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: MoD Russia
🎖🎖 by Russian Defence Ministry on progress of special military operation as of 5 June 2025
👮♂️ The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
💥 The Sever Group of Forces' units inflicted losses on clusters of manpower and hardware of one mechanised brigade, two air assault brigades, one jaeger brigade, one assault regiment of the AFU, and one assault detachment of the Special Operations Forces near Korchakovka, Varachino, Khrapovshchina, Pisarevka, Vorozhba, Yunakovka, Sadki, and Velikiy Prikol (Sumy region).
▪️The AFU losses amounted to more than 180 troops, one armoured fighting vehicle, six motor vehicles, four field artillery guns, and one electronic warfare station.
📍Units of the Zapad Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions. Losses were inflicted on formations of two mechanised brigades, one assault brigade, and one airmobile brigade of the AFU near Kupyansk, Glushchenkovo, Borovaya, Peschanoye, Olgovka, Andreyevka (Kharkov region), Kirovsk, and Yampol (Donetsk People's Republic).
▪️The AFU losses amounted to up to 195 troops, three tanks, one U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carrier, one UK-made Snatch armoured fighting vehicle, ten motor vehicles, and two Western-made artillery guns. Eight ammunition depots were wiped out.
📍Units of the Yug Group of Forces improved the tactical situation along the front line. The Group hit personnel and manpower of two mechanised brigades, one motorised infantry brigade, one assault brigade, one airmobile brigade, and one mountain assault brigade of the AFU near Nikiforovka, Ivanopolye, Fedorovka, Konstantinovka, Nelepovka, and Pleshcheyevka (Donetsk People's Republic).
▪️ The enemy lost up to 240 troops, one Italian-made Puma armoured personnel carrier, eight motor vehicles, and six artillery guns, to include three NATO-manufactured guns. One electronic warfare station, one U.S.-made AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery radar, and one ammunition depot were destroyed.
📍Units of the Tsentr Group of Forces improved the tactical situation. Strikes were delivered at formations of four mechanised brigades, two air assault brigades of the AFU, one marine brigade, two territorial defence brigades, and one national guard brigade near Petrovskogo, Udachnoye, Kotlino, Novonikolayevka, Novosergeyevka, Krasnoarmeysk, and Dimitrov (Donetsk People's Republic).
▪️The enemy losses amounted to up to 500 troops, seven armoured fighting vehicles, to include one U.S.-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicle, eight pickup trucks, and six field artillery guns, to include one UK-made 155-mm FH-70 towed howitzer.
👉 See Part 2
🔹 Russian Defence Ministry
Posted: 2025-06-05T15:27:16 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: MoD Russia
🎖🎖 by Russian Defence Ministry on progress of special military operation as of 5 June 2025
Part 2 (👉 see Part 1)
📍Units of the Vostok Group of Forces continued advancing into the depth of enemy defence. The Russian Armed Forces inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of two mechanised brigades, one airmobile brigade of the AFU, and one marine brigade close to Zaporozhye, Karla Marksa, Komar, and Fedorovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
▪️The AFU losses amounted to more than 195 troops, three armoured fighting vehicles, three motor vehicles, four field artillery guns, and two electronic warfare stations.
💥 Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted losses on formations of two mechanised brigades, one mountain assault brigade, one coastal defence brigade of the AFU, and three territorial defence brigades close to Kamenskoye, Pavlovka, Malaya Tokmachka, Novodanilovka, Stepovoye (Zaporozhye region), Krupitsa, and Antonovka (Kherson region).
▪️The enemy lost up to 90 troops, nine motor vehicles, two self-propelled artillery systems, two Grad MLRS combat vehicles, six electronic warfare stations, and three ammunition depots.
✈️ Operational-Tactical Aviation, strike unmanned aerial vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces inflicted fire damage on strike drone manufacturing shops, ammunition depots, temporary deployment areas of the AFU and foreign mercenaries in 142 areas.
🎯 Air defence systems shot down one U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectile and 154 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles, including 60 outside the special military operation zone.
📊 In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the enemy has lost:
▫️ 663 aircraft,
▫️ 283 helicopters,
▫️ 61,470 unmanned aerial vehicles,
▫️ 610 anti-aircraft missile systems,
▫️ 23,766 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles,
▫️ 1,568 MLRS combat vehicles,
▫️ 25,743 field artillery guns and mortars,
▫️ 36,485 special military vehicles.
🔹 Russian Defence Ministry
Posted: 2025-06-05T15:27:16 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: MoD Russia
💥 Artillerymen deliver powerful strikes at AFU positions
00:00 The Dnepr Group's D-30 gun crew destroyed a dugout with one UAV team of the enemy in Orekhov direction.
00:16 Msta-S self-propelled artillery systems of the Vostok Group of Forces delivered targeted strikes at temporary deployment areas of Ukrainian troops near Zeleny Kut in South Donetsk direction.
🔹 Russian Defence Ministry
Posted: 2025-06-05T15:27:16 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: MoD Russia
🎮Drone operators in action
UAV teams of the 20th Army detected an enemy stronghold in a forest belt near the Donetsk People's Republic. The Rubikon Centre's FPV drones wiped out the detected target.
#Rubikon
🔹 Russian Defence Ministry
Posted: 2025-06-05T15:27:16 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: MoD Russia
🪖 Vostok Group's servicemen erect pantoon bridge in South Donetsk direction
The pantoon bridge was organised to create a stable logistics system and to deliver ammunition and food supplies from rear areas to the front line.
An uncrewed surface vehicle was deployed to camouflage the bridge. The vehicle accompanied the pantoon bridge and created a smokescreen.
🔹 Russian Defence Ministry
Posted: 2025-06-05T15:27:16 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: MoD Russia
🎯Newest Gibka-S SAM system provides air defence in Krasnoarmeysk direction
The system installed on the Tigr-M armoured vehicle makes it possible to effectively fight against various UAVs of the enemy.
🔹 Russian Defence Ministry
Posted: 2025-06-05T15:27:16 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: MoD Russia
#DailyFigure
🔹 Russian Defence Ministry
Posted: 2025-06-05T15:27:16 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: MoD Russia
🗓 Top News Today
▫️Operational-Tactical Aviation, strike unmanned aerial vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces inflicted fire damage on strike drone manufacturing shops, ammunition depots, temporary deployment areas of the AFU and foreign mercenaries.
▫️Air defence systems shot down one U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectile and 154 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles, including 60 outside the special military operation zone.
▫️The Russian Ministry of Defence shows Giatsint-B howitzers, Msta-S self-propelled artillery systems, Gibka-S SAM systems, and UAV operators in action within the special military operation.
#TopNews
🔹 Russian Defence Ministry
Posted: 2025-06-05T15:27:16 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: MoD Russia
#UkraineRussiaWar
🌐 Place: #Tiahynka
🕰 Date: ~04.06.2025
📌 Coordinates: 46.779709,33.054543
👩🚀 Squad:
📝 Description: Russian LMUR strikes Ukrainian Armed Forces positions in Tiahynka.
🖥 id: 05062025.0909
✉️source:https://t.me/warhistoryalconafter/224495
Map: militarysummary.com
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Posted: 2025-06-05T15:27:45 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Military Summary
#UkraineRussiaWar
🌐 Place: #Yurieve
🕰 Date: ~04.06.2025
📌 Coordinates: 51.281597,34.128280
👩🚀 Squad:
📝 Description: Russian FAB strikes concentrations of Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel and equipment near Yurieve.
🖥 id: 05062025.0828
✉️source:https://t.me/warriorofnorth/8912
Map: militarysummary.com
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Posted: 2025-06-05T15:27:45 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Military Summary
#UkraineRussiaWar
🌐 Place: #Ridkodub
🕰 Date: ~04.06.2025
📌 Coordinates: 01:39 49.190725,37.801434
👩🚀 Squad:
📝 Description: The Russian Armed Forces raised the flag in Ridkodub.
🖥 id: 05062025.0824
✉️source: https://t.me/operationall_space/4380
Map: militarysummary.com
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Posted: 2025-06-05T15:27:45 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Military Summary
#UkraineRussiaWar
🌐 Place: #Yablunivka
🕰 Date: ~04.06.2025
📌 Coordinates: 48.42194, 37.58888
👩🚀 Squad:
📝 Description: Footage of Russian assault on Ukrainian Armed Forces positions in western part of Yablunivka.
🖥 id: 05062025.0814
✉️source: https://t.me/dva_majors/72772
Map: militarysummary.com
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Posted: 2025-06-05T15:27:45 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Military Summary
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