War - Field Reports - 2025-02-26

Feb 25, 2025

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Report by Russian Defence Ministry on repelling AFU attempt to invade Russian territory in Kursk region (25 February 2025)

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▫️ The Zapad Group's units improved the tactical situation and liberated (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19672) Topoli (Kharkov region).

▫️The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19675) the operation to neutralise AFU formations on the territory of Kursk region. Over the past day, the AFU losses amounted to more than 255 troops, three tanks, one armoured personnel carrier, 26 armoured fighting vehicles, 24 motor vehicles, a launcher and a radar of the S-300V SAM system, two artillery guns, three mortars, two electronic warfare stations, and one engineering vehicle.

▫️ The Russian Defence Ministry shows T-72B3M (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19677) tanks, repair (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19670) units, Grad (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19683) MLRS crew, and UAV (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19679) pilots in action.

▫️ Komodo 2025 international naval exercise involving Russian Navy ships enters (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19671) final stage off the Indonesian coast

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🔥 Charge and fire

The Sever Group of Forces' Msta-B towed howitzers eliminated fortifications, one UAV command post, and manpower of the AFU in the border area of Kursk region.

Artillerymen carry out tasks in cooperation with UAV teams. Reconnaissance drones detect enemy positions, hardware, and military personnel. After transmitting the coordinates, the artillerymen began neutralising the targets.

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The 98th Airborne Division's paratroopers from Kostroma evacuated a wounded driver of the BTR-MDM modernised armoured personnel carrier, and protected military hardware from AFU drones near Chasov Yar.

During the movement of an armoured group of paratroopers after completing a combat task, a Rakushka BTR-MDM armoured personnel carrier trailing the convoy blew up by an anti-tank mine. The vehicle lost control and stopped. A group of paratroopers reported to the regiment's command and moved to the combat vehicle.

⚡️ Only a driver was inside the armoured personnel carrier. He was wounded. The driver was promptly evacuated to a safe area and provided with first aid. Soon, Ukrainian drones appeared in the sky and began to attack the vehicle standing on the road.

The Kostroma paratroopers, who engage enemy drones with small arms fire, courageously and competently ensured the evacuation of the injured driver and the Rakushka armoured personnel carrier to the rear area.

🔹 Russian Defence Ministry (https://t.me/mod_russia_en)

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🎖🎖 by Russian Defence Ministry on progress of special military operation (25 February 2025)

Part I (see Part II (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19690))

▫️The Russian Armed Forces launched a high-precision strike by air-based weapons and strike unmanned aerial vehicles at the infrastructure of Ukrainian military airfields. The goals of the strike were achieved.

▫️In Kharkov direction, the Sever Group of Forces defeated formations of one motorised infantry brigade and one territorial defence brigade of the AFU near Volchansk and Liptsy (Kharkov region).

The AFU losses amounted to up to 35 troops, two motor vehicles, and one artillery gun.

▫️The Zapad Group of Forces improved the tactical situation. Strikes were delivered at manpower and hardware of two mechanised brigades, one assault brigade of the AFU, and one territorial defence brigade close to Kamenka, Lozovaya (Kharkov region), and Makeyevka (Lugansk People's Republic).

The AFU losses amounted to up to 190 troops, five motor vehicles, and eight field artillery guns, two of which are manufactured by NATO countries. One Kvertus electronic warfare station and three ammunition depots were neutralised.

▫️The Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions. Formations of three mechanised brigades and one airmobile brigade of the AFU suffered losses near Seversk, Stupochki, Chervonoye, and Konstantinovka (Donetsk People's Republic).

The AFU losses amounted to up to 140 troops, four armoured fighting vehicles, and two motor vehicles. Two ammunition depots were destroyed.

▫️The Tsentr Group of Forces improved the situation along the front line. Strikes were delivered at manpower and hardware of four mechanised brigades, one assault brigade of the AFU, and one national guard brigade near Zverevo, Sergeyevka, Udachnoye, Shevchenko, Andreyevka, and Uspenovka (Donetsk People's Republic).

The AFU losses amounted to up to 305 troops, seven armoured fighting vehicles, one motor vehicle, and three artillery guns.

🔹 Russian Defence Ministry (https://t.me/mod_russia_en)

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🎖🎖 by Russian Defence Ministry on progress of special military operation (25 February 2025)

Part II (see Part I (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19689))

▫️ The Vostok Group of Forces continued advancing into the depth of enemy defences. Formations of two mechanised brigades of the AFU and three territorial defence brigades were hit near Burlatskoye, Skudnoye, Volnoye Pole (Donetsk People's Republic), and Gulyai Pole (Zaporozhye region).

The AFU losses amounted to more than 150 troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, three motor vehicles, and three field artillery guns.

▫️ The Dnepr Group of Forces have engaged manpower and hardware of two mechanised brigades and one coastal defence brigade of the AFU near Shcherbaki (Zaporozhye region), Tokarevka, and Pridneprovskoye (Kherson region).

The AFU losses amounted to up to 85 troops, one armoured fighting vehicle, one motor vehicle, and one ammunition depot.

▫️ Operational-Tactical Aviation, strike unmanned aerial vehicles, and Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have engaged the production sites of strike drones as well as temporary deployment areas of the AFU in 144 areas.

▫️Russian air defence systems have shot down five U.S.-made JDAM guided bombs, 23 Czech-made Vampire MLRS projectiles, and 97 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.

▫️In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 656 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 44,431 unmanned aerial vehicles, 596 anti-aircraft missile systems, 21,734 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,521 MLRS combat vehicles, 22,007 field artillery guns and mortars, and 32,099 units of support military vehicles have been neutralised.

🔹 Russian Defence Ministry (https://t.me/mod_russia_en)

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🎖🎖 by Russian Defence Ministry on repelling AFU attempt to invade Russian territory in Kursk region (25 February 2025)

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the operation to neutralise AFU formations on the territory of Kursk region.

▫️The Sever Group of Forces have inflicted fire damage on formations of one heavy mechanised brigade, five mechanised brigades, one motorised infantry brigade, one assault brigade, two air assault brigades, two territorial defence brigades, and two assault regiments of the AFU near Viktorovka, Goncharovka, Guyevo, Kazachya Loknya, Kubatkin, Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Makhnovka, Melovoy, Nikolsky, Novaya Sorochina, Rubanshchina, and Sudzha. Two counter-attacks launched by enemy units were repelled.

▫️Operational-Tactical and Army aviation and artillery inflicted fire on AFU manpower and hardware close to Bondarevka, Kositsa, Lebedevka, Loknya, Malaya Loknya, Martynovka, Nikolayevka, Oleshnya, Starya Sorochina, Cherkasskoye Porechnoye, Cherkasskaya Konopelka as well as Basovka, Belovody, Veselovka, Novenkoye, Zhuravka, and Yunakovka (Sumy region).

▫️Over the past 24 hours, the AFU losses amounted to more than 220 troops, two tanks, one armoured personnel carrier, 25 armoured fighting vehicles, 18 motor vehicles, eight artillery guns, one mortar, five UAV command posts, and three ammunition depots.

▫️Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk direction, the AFU losses amounted to more than 63,325 troops, 381 tanks, 288 infantry fighting vehicles, 241 armoured personnel carriers, 2,042 armoured fighting vehicles, 2,185 motor vehicles, 477 artillery guns, 52 MLRS launchers, including 13 of HIMARS and seven of MLRS made by the USA, 23 anti-aircraft missile launchers, one self-propelled anti-aircraft system, ten transport-loading vehicles, 116 EW stations, 15 counter-battery warfare radars, eight air defence radars, 50 units of engineering and other materiel, including 19 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.

🔹 Russian Defence Ministry (https://t.me/mod_russia_en)

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💥 Tank crews of 51st Combined Arms Army destroy AFU UAV command post in Dzerzhinsk direction

As a result of timely support of the tank crews, the assault groups were able to advance and seize another enemy stronghold.

🔹 Russian Defence Ministry (https://t.me/mod_russia_en)

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Marines in action

Drones of the 40th Marine Brigade of the Vostok Group of Forces and artillerymen continue to identify and destroy AFU military vehicles in South Donetsk direction.

During air surveillance, the Marines detected the movement of armoured vehicles of the Ukrainian nationalists. The coordinates of the targets were timely transmitted to the tube artillery command post, which crews neutralised the enemy combat vehicles by precise fire.

🔹 Russian Defence Ministry (https://t.me/mod_russia_en)

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📹 Tsentr Group of Forces' assaultmen show AFU military vehicles wiped out near Nadezhdinka (Donetsk People's Republic)

In Krasnoarmeysk direction, assault detachments of the Tsentr Group of Forces' tank regiment liberated (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19598) Nadezhdinka in Donetsk People's Republic.

Taking advantage of the weather, the armoured groups with assaultmen entered the settlement. Another assault groups of the Russian Armed Forces managed to evade the enemy from the flanks and kick him out of fortified positions.

Then, the Russian troops mopped up houses and building from the rest of the enemy troops. Having seized new positions, the assaultmen hoisted the Russian flag in the liberated settlement.

🔹 Russian Defence Ministry (https://t.me/mod_russia_en)

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❄️ Flying through blizzard

In Kharkov region, a reconnaissance unit of the Sever Group of Forces used a UAV to identify an enemy armoured fighting vehicle that was transporting AFU military personnel for rotation.

The detected target was quickly destroyed by an FPV drone team of the Sever Group of Forces.

🔹 Russian Defence Ministry (https://t.me/mod_russia_en)

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🏳️ Captured AFU serviceman: 'Morale is low, we do not want to fight'

Vladimir Rukan, who surrendered to the Russian troops, spoke about how many Ukrainians are tired of war and also accused the authorities of money laundering:

'I didn't want to fight, from my unit that went into position there were only ten percent of the men left alive. There is a simple laundering of money during the war. All the money coming to Ukraine, which is billions of dollars, goes in an unknown direction. Simple people and workers die in the war, and oligarchs live on stolen money. There is not a single rich man in the war. Those who have money have fled to Europe long ago.'

🔹 Russian Defence Ministry (https://t.me/mod_russia_en)

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AFU UAV command post wiped out

The Sever Group of Forces' FPV drone team eliminated a UAV command post and a UAV launching site in Sumy region.

🔹 Russian Defence Ministry (https://t.me/mod_russia_en)

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🗓 Top News Today

▫️The Russian Armed Forces launched (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19689) a high-precision strike by air-based weapons and strike unmanned aerial vehicles at the infrastructure of Ukrainian military airfields. The goals of the strike were achieved.

▫️The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19691) the operation to neutralise AFU formations on the territory of Kursk region. Over the past 24 hours, the AFU losses amounted to more than 220 troops, two tanks, one armoured personnel carrier, 25 armoured fighting vehicles, 18 motor vehicles, eight artillery guns, one mortar, five UAV command posts, and three ammunition depots.

▫️The Tsentr Group of Forces' assaultmen showed (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19697) AFU military vehicles wiped out near Nadezhdinka (Donetsk People's Republic).

▫️The Zapad Group of Forces' Commander Colonel General Sergei Kuzovlev presented (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19693) awards to distinguished servicemen of the Zapad Group of Forces.

▫️The Russian Defence Ministry shows Msta-B (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19686) howitzers, tank crews, (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19695) military engineers, (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19694) an armoured group of the Airborne Troops, (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19687) and UAV (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19700) operators in action during the special military operation.

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