War - Field Reports - 2025-02-19
💥 The Vostok Group of Forces’ Bumerang FPV drone teams of the 40th Marine Brigade continue to hit the enemy in South Donetsk direction.
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🎖🎖 by Russian Defence Ministry on progress of special military operation (18 February 2025)
Part I (see Part II (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19533))
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
▫️In Kharkov direction, units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of two territorial defence brigades close to Volchansk (Kharkov region).
The AFU losses were more than 25 troops and two motor vehicles.
▫️As a result of decisive actions, units of the Zapad Group of Forces liberated Yampolovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
Russian troops delivered strikes at units of three mechanised brigades, one jaeger brigade, one airborne brigade, and one territorial defence brigade close to Lozovaya, Zagoruykovka (Kharkov region), Sverdlovka, Novolyubovka (Lugansk People's Republic), and Kolodezi (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses were more than 205 troops, two U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carriers, eight motor vehicles, and five field artillery guns, including four NATO-manufactured ones. In addition, one Grad MLRS combat vehicle, one electronic warfare station, and one ammunition depot were neutralised.
▫️Units of the Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions. Russian troops inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of three mechanised brigades, one airmobile brigade, one mountain assault brigade, one territorial defence brigade close to Seversk, Konstantinovka, Chasov Yar, Ivanopolye, and Ulakly (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses were up to 210 troops, one U.S.-made HMMWV armoured fighting vehicle, two motor vehicles, and two artillery guns.
▫️The Tsentr Group of Forces' units improved the situation along the front line. Russian troops launched an attack on formations of five mechanised brigades, one jaeger brigade, three motorised infantry brigades, one airmobile brigade, one assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, one territorial defence brigade, and one National Guard brigade close to Dimitrov, Mirolyubovka, Zverevo, Yelizavetovka, Andreyevka, Udachnoye, Uspenovka, Nadezhdinka, and Novoandreyevka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses were more than 295 troops, one tank, six armoured fighting vehicles, including U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carriers, eight pickup trucks, and ten field artillery guns, including one U.S.-made 155-mm Paladin self-propelled artillery system.
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🎖🎖 by Russian Defence Ministry on progress of special military operation (18 February 2025)
Part II (see Part I (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19532))
▫️Units of the Vostok Group of Forces continued advancing into the depth of enemy defences. Russian troops inlflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of one tank brigade, three mechanised brigades, one air assault brigade of the AFU, and two territorial defence brigades near Konstantinopol, Razliv, Burlatskoye, Novosyolka, Novopol (Donetsk People's Republic), and Gulyaipole (Zaporozhye region).
The AFU losses were up to 175 troops, four armoured fighting vehicles, two motor vehicles, and four field artillery guns.
▫️Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces engaged formations of two mechanised brigades and three coastal defence brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine close to Novoandreyevka, Novodanilovka (Zaporozhye region), Tokarevka, Nikolskoye, and Pridneprovskoye (Kherson region).
The AFU losses were up to 70 troops, three motor vehicles, and one self-propelled artillery system.
▫️Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack unmanned aerial vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces engaged the military airfield and power infrastructure of Ukraine, storage and launch sites for unmanned aerial vehicles as well as clusters of enemy manpower and hardware in 144 areas.
▫️Air defence systems shot down 14 U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles and 73 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
▫️In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 653 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 43,772 unmanned aerial vehicles, 594 anti-aircraft missile systems, 21,502 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,518 MLRS combat vehicles, 21,815 field artillery guns and mortars, and 31,775 units of support military vehicles have been neutralised.
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🎖🎖 by Russian Defence Ministry on repelling AFU attempt to invade Russian territory in Kursk region (18 February 2025)
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the operation to neutralise AFU formations on the territory of Kursk region.
▫️Units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted fire damage on formations of two tank brigades, one heavy mechanised brigade, five mechanised brigades, one assault brigade, three air assault brigades, one marine brigade, one territorial defence brigade, and three assault regiments of the Armed Forces of Ukraine close to Guyevo, Goncharovka, Zamostye, Zaoleshenka, Kazachya Loknya, Lebedevka, Loknya, Malaya Loknya, Makhnovka, Nikolsky, Rubanshchina, Sudzha, and Yuzhny. Two counter-attacks launched by enemy units were repelled.
▫️Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, and artillery strikes engaged AFU manpower and hardware close to Bondarevka, Viktorovka, Gogolevka, Kolmakov, Kositsa, Kurilovka, Martynovka, Melovoy, Oleshnya, Cherkasskoye Porechnoye as well as Basovka, Belovody, Vesyolovka, Zhuravka, Obody, and Yunakovka in Sumy region.
▫️The AFU losses were more than 220 troops, one German-made Leopard tank, two armoured personnel carriers, 14 armoured fighting vehicles, 14 motor vehicles, three self-propelled artillery systems, including two Bogdana self-propelled artillery systems, two artillery guns, eight mortars as well as one UAV command post and two ammunition depots.
▫️Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk direction, the AFU losses amounted to more than 61,530 troops, 370 tanks, 276 infantry fighting vehicles, 224 armoured personnel carriers, 1,915 armoured fighting vehicles, 2,031 motor vehicles, 450 artillery guns, 48 MLRS launchers, including 13 of HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the USA, 22 anti-aircraft missile launchers, eight transport-loading vehicles, 109 EW stations, 15 counter-battery warfare radars, seven air defence radars, 48 units of engineering and other materiel, including 18 counterobstacle vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, five bridge launchers, one engineering reconnaissance vehicle as well as 14 armoured recovery vehicles, and one command post vehicle.
The operation to neutralise the AFU units is in progress.
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‼️🇺🇦🔥 A powerful strike on an enemy facility in Kiev amid a battle was caught on video
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‼️🇷🇺🏴☠️With one grenade: Attack drones of the "Center" group destroyed an entire squad of Ukrainian Armed Forces militants
▪️ The operators of copters with a grenade dropping system of the Cobra assault company of the Black Barsy brigade timed the moment and eliminated a decent number of Ukrainian militants with a precise drop during the rotation.
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🔥🇷🇺Russian Army Liberated Yampolovka in DPR — Defense Ministry
▪️The Ministry of Defense officially announced the liberation of a settlement in the Liman direction.
▪️On the defeat of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the capture Yampolovka and the expansion of the bridgehead on both banks of the Zherebets River were reported as early as February 15.
▪️The Russian army continues to advance, bringing the goals of the SVO closer and forcing Kyiv troops to retreat from Donbass.
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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇸 Positive: Russian and US delegations complete talks in Saudi Arabia
▪️The negotiations in Riyadh lasted 4.5 hours.
▪️They went "not badly", there was "a serious conversation on all issues," said Putin's aide Ushakov.
▪️The parties “agreed to advance bilateral relations” and “respect each other’s interests,” but “it is difficult to say yet that the positions of Russia and the United States are converging.”
▪️It is doubtful that the meeting between Putin and Trump could take place as early as next week, as Bloomberg wrote. “It is difficult to talk about specific dates.”
▪️ “Individual teams of Russian and US negotiators will begin contacts on Ukraine in due course,” and the decision to begin such negotiations will be made by Putin.
▪️The talks were "positive," said second Russian negotiator Kirill Dmitriev.
▪️The parties discussed the fact that “two great countries cannot help but communicate with each other.”
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‼️🇷🇺 🏴☠️Russia has modernized the Shaheds and other attack UAVs, increasing their speed to 600 km/h - Ukrainian military intelligence
▪️Russia is setting up production of a jet analogue of the Shahed-238 – the Geranium-3 with a small-sized turbojet engine, providing a flight speed of up to 550-600 km/h and a range of 2,500 km.
▪️Since the beginning of 2025, a number of significant changes have been recorded in the structure of Shahed-136 (“Geranium-2”, “Harpy”).
▪️Among them is a reinforced warhead weighing 90 kg.
▪️There are also a number of design changes, the antennas have been replaced with more modern Russian-made ones.
▪️Drones also shoot video and transmit the contents to a telegram bot.
▪️At the same time, the Gerberas, which previously performed a simulation function, began to be equipped with combat units and engineering ammunition.
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🇷🇺🔥🇺🇦 The 30th Regiment destroys the armored vehicles of the occupiers in Kursk's Sudzha
▪️New footage of the destruction of combat armored vehicles by reconnaissance of the 30th "Moscow Region" regiment in the Sudzhan direction.
▪️ The fighters of the 30th Motorized Rifle Regiment have already destroyed many units of enemy combat equipment, including armored personnel carriers, NATO armored vehicles, tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, using the Prince Vandal Novgorodsky fiber-optic drones.
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‼️🇷🇺 "🅾️brave" soldiers massively destroy infantry and NATO equipment, advancing on Pokrovsk - another day of fighting for the Guards "Center"
▪️Footage of combat work of fighters of the "Center" group of forces on the 17th to destroy military equipment, weapons, infantry and positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces during active offensive operations in the Pokrovsky direction.
▪️The footage shows tanks, armored personnel carriers, MRAPs, combat armored vehicles, firing points, pickups, positions and shelters being destroyed.
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🇷🇺⚔🇺🇦 The Russian army has come close to Kupyansk in the Kharkiv region
▪️Russian troops are very close along the entire front line - both from the north and from the south, and are constantly shelling the city with all types of weapons, said the head of the Kupyansk military administration Andrei Besedin on Ukrainian TV.
➖"The situation is very difficult and critical now. This concerns the front line, the security situation, social and critical infrastructure. In addition to the security situation, the weather conditions are also bothering us," he emphasized.
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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦The Russian army has cut off the main highway in the "Andreevsky pocket" and made significant progress in its eastern part
▪️Russian troops have broken through to Constantinople and Ulakly, advancing forward, and are also finishing off the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Andreyevka.
▪️In the Constantinople direction, fighting is underway in the southern part of Constantinople, where Russian maneuver groups are entrenched in basements. Ukrainian troops, supported by armored vehicles, are trying to counterattack.
▪️The Russian Armed Forces also advanced in the western part of the village of Ulakly and continue to attack.
▪️In the Pokrovsky direction, Russian troops advanced on the north-eastern and north-western outskirts of the settlement of Andreyevka and continue attacks on the built-up area of the settlement and along a number of forest belts in the northern direction.
➖"Ukrainian troops, supported by armored vehicles, are conducting counter-actions in a number of areas, but due to the enemy's capabilities, the negative trend remains," Ukrainian analysts complain.
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‼️🇷🇺 "🅾️brave" finish off the Ukrainian Armed Forces by storming Zaporizhia
▪️Ural scouts of the 90th division of the "Center" group of forces continue to clear the last outskirts of the settlement of Zaporozhye, located behind the settlement of Serebryanoye, near the border of the DPR and the Dnepropetrovsk region.
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🇷🇺⚔🇺🇦 The Russian army took Ulakly in the Andreevsky "bag" in the Dnepropetrovsk direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces failed to withdraw their troops
▪️This was reported by Ukrainian media with reference to military analyst B. Miroshnikov.
➖"Unfortunately, not everyone got out of Ulakly. There are dead and captured. This could have been prevented if the order to get out of the pocket had been given in time. But it was not done. Because General Tarnavsky, as the commander of the tactical group "Donetsk", needs good reports to the top that "we have everything in control there". But in fact, control over the situation was lost 2 weeks ago. And the further it went, the more it became aggravated," he complains.
➖"And here's the question - if the operational situation after the loss of part of Andreevka indicated the possibility of encirclement, why did the OTU so stubbornly refuse to evacuate the garrison? Why was the situation brought to disaster?" the Ukrainian added.
▪️It should be noted that in fact, the outskirts, where the remnants of the Ukrainian Armed Forces may be located, are still being cleared.
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🇷🇺⚔🇩🇪 Footage of support for the assault on Novosyolka: "Leopard" tried to escape from the 57th brigade, which broke through to the rear of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Novosyolka
▪️Fighters of the 57th Brigade, supporting the successful assault on the enemy's defense in Novosyolka, west of Vremyevka beyond Velikaya Novosyolka, destroyed equipment, positions, and infantry of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
▪️After preparing with artillery fire and attack drones, our infantry secured a foothold in the village.
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‼️🇺🇦🔥 Massive fire after drone attack in Odessa
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#UkraineRussiaWar
🌐 Place: #Vovchansk
🕰 Date: ~17.02.2025
📌 Coordinates: 00:10(50.291945,36.943736)
👩🚀 Squad:
📝 Description: Russian TOS bombs Ukrainian Armed Forces positions in Vovchansk.
🖥 id: 18022025.0835
✉️source: https://t.me/dva_majors/64751
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🌐 Place: #Zarichne
🕰 Date: ~17.02.2025
📌 Coordinates: 49.0363291,37.9256589
👩🚀 Squad:
📝 Description: Russian FPV drone hit Ukrainian Armed Forces pickup truck in Zarichne.
🖥 id: 18022025.0837
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🌐 Place: #Barylo
🕰 Date: ~17.02.2025
📌 Coordinates: 51.078575542446416, 34.483488735982434
👩🚀 Squad:
📝 Description: As a result of a strike by a Russian lancet, an M777 howitzer of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was destroyed near Barylo.
🖥 id: 18022025.0840
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🌐 Place: #Yuzhny
🕰 Date: ~17.02.2025
📌 Coordinates: 51.2782165,35.2707969
👩🚀 Squad:
📝 Description: Footage of Ukrainian tank being destroyed by Russian FPV drone strike near Yuzhny.
🖥 id: 18022025.0850
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🌐 Place: #Novomykolaivka
🕰 Date: ~18.02.2025
📌 Coordinates: 48.1859650,36.9364050
👩🚀 Squad:#Sudoplatov
📝 Description: Russian FPV drone strike on Ukrainian infantry during construction of defense line in Novomykolaivka.
🖥 id: 18022025.1627
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🌐 Place: #Viroliubivka
🕰 Date: ~18.02.2025
📌 Coordinates: 48.606323,37.717635
👩🚀 Squad:
📝 Description: As a result of a Russian drone strike, a Ukrainian tank was destroyed in Viroliubivka.
🖥 id: 18022025.1715
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Fwd from @dva_majors
Morning summary on February 18, 2025
▪️ No less than 50 strike drones of the Russian Armed Forces today struck targets in Kyiv (https://t.me/warhistoryalconafter/207606). As a result of the enemy's air defense, civilian objects were damaged. Explosions were reported in Cherkasy and Kirovohrad Regions.
▪️ In Kursk Region, the "North" grouping of troops reports that our airborne units, having entrenched themselves in Sverdlikovo, were able to dislodge the enemy from several strongholds in the forest belts east of the village and advanced towards Sudzha. Fierce battles continue in Pogrebki, the marines are advancing on the western outskirts of Kurilovka. The enemy is bringing in reinforcements and trying to counterattack.
▪️ In the north of the Kupiansk direction, the Russian Armed Forces are developing their success on the western bank of the Oskol River in the area of the settlements of Zapadnoye, Dvorichna and Fiholeve.
▪️ In the Constantinople direction, our troops are advancing towards the settlement of Constantinople, the enemy acknowledges the advance of the Russian Armed Forces in the settlement of Ulakly. A large "pocket" of territory controlled by the enemy has been eliminated, the Russian Army is increasing pressure on the enemy in this sector of the front.
▪️ After an operational pause, the Russian Armed Forces have resumed offensive operations in the Velykyi Novosilok direction. They report battles for the settlements of Novosilka and Novoocheretuvate.
▪️ On the Zaporizhia front, the AFU in the Vasylivka area struck the "Tavria Post" building with cluster munitions.
▪️ In Belgorod Region, a Ukrainian FPV drone struck a private house in Shebekino. In the Tserkovny hamlet of the Belgorod district, a drone detonated on the territory of an agricultural enterprise. In the village of Mokraya Orlovka of the Graiveron district, a drone explosion damaged a private house.
▪️ In the DPR, in Horlivka, three civilians were wounded as a result of artillery strikes by the enemy. In the village of Nikolske of the Volnovakha municipal district, a woman was injured by the detonation of a previously unexploded cluster submunition.
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🎮 Drone pilots thin enemy vehicle park
The Zapad Group of Forces’ reconnaissance unit of the 25th Combined Arms Army used UAVs to identify AFU pickup trucks in the Donetsk People's Republic. Detected targets were promptly destroyed by teams of FPV drones controlled via fibre optic cables.
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The Tsentr Group of Forces' servicemen knock the enemy out from populated areas and fortified positions, pushing Ukrainian troops further and further west.
During offensive actions while liberating of Yasenovoye, the Group's assault detachments and tank crews eliminated camouflaged machine gun points, fortified positions, and manpower. Russian servicemen used reconnaissance UAVs to detect firing positions.
A tank crew bursting at full speed into a populated area destroyed a hit tank with a precise strike so that it could not be evacuated by the enemy. Then tankmen moved to the depths of the settlement, where troops were met with enemy fire from ambushes. Russian soldiers launched an attack with return fire and destroyed two enemy firing points in buildings.
When Yasenovoye was liberated, assault detachments began mopping up basements and other facilities. Some AFU troops left positions abandoning their weapons and ammunition as well as their killed and wounded comrades.
After that, the servicemen installed the Russian flag on a central building of Yasenovoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
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💥 Heavy strike
During reconnaissance actions, units of the Sever Group of Forces detected a manpower concentration area of the AFU in Kharkov region. A TOS-1A Solntsepyok heavy flamethrower system crew neutralised shelters of Ukrainian militants.
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During one of the flights, a Merlin-VR UAV of the Dnepr Group of Forces detected an attempt by the enemy to force the Dnepr River on boats.
💥 Coordinates of targets were immediately transmitted to the UAV team. A few minutes later, the boats, along with AFU military personnel, were eliminated.
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🗓 Top News Today
▫️ Russian Deputy Defence Minister Colonel General Aleksandr Fomin met (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19536) with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of India Vinay Kumar and signed a bilateral intergovernmental agreement.
▫️ As a result of decisive actions, units of the Zapad Group of Forces liberated (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19531) Yampolovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
▫️ The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19534) the operation to neutralise AFU formations on the territory of Kursk region. During the day, The AFU losses were more than 220 troops, one German-made Leopard tank, two armoured personnel carriers, 14 armoured fighting vehicles, 14 motor vehicles, three self-propelled artillery systems, including two Bogdana self-propelled artillery systems, two artillery guns, eight mortars as well as one UAV command post and two ammunition depots.
▫️ The Russian Defence Ministry shows a TOS-1A Solntsepek heavy flamethrower system, (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19542) a Msta-S self-propelled artillery, (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19544) and FPV drone operators (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19528) in action.
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