🧨 Military engineers destroy explosive objects of AFU
Combat engineers of the Sever Group of Forces eliminated remnants of unexploded subammunition, explosive objects, and shells detected during work in Kharkov direction.
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⚡️ The Sever Group of Forces' units liberated Lebedevka (Kursk region) and Novenkoye (Sumy region) during the offensive.
🔹 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 (9 March 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' units liberated Lebedevka (Kursk region) and Novenkoye (Sumy region) during the offensive.
▫️The Russian Armed Forces inflicted damage on units 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 Agronom, Bogdanovka, Goncharovka, Guyevo, Zaoleshenka, Kazachya Loknya, Pervy Knyazhy, Vtoroy Knyazhy, Kositsa, Loknya, Malaya Loknya, Makhnovka, Rubanshchina, Sudzha, Cherkasskaya Konopelka, Cherkasskoye Porechnoye, and Yuzhny. Two counter-attacks were repelled.
▫️Operational-Tactical and Army aviation and artillery inflicted fire damage on AFU manpower and hardware close to Bondarevka, Pervy Knyazhy, Kubatkin, Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Martynovka, Mirny as well as Basovka, Belovody, Zhuravka, Miropolye, Novenkoye, Obody, Yunakovka, and Yablonovka (Sumy region).
Within the past 24 hours, AFU losses amounted to more than 350 troops, one tank, two infantry fighting vehicles, five armoured personnel carriers, 19 armoured fighting vehicles, 29 motor vehicles, six field artillery guns, one mortar, one electronic warfare station, one Israeli-made RADA radar station, 11 UAV command posts, and one ammunition depot. Six AFU servicemen surrendered.
▫️Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk direction, the AFU losses amounted to more than 65,930 troops, 387 tanks, 300 infantry fighting vehicles, 264 armoured personnel carriers, 2,163 armoured fighting vehicles, 2,370 motor vehicles, 528 artillery guns, 52 MLRS launchers, including 13 of HIMARS and seven of MLRS made by the USA, 25 anti-aircraft missile launchers, one self-propelled anti-aircraft system, ten transport-loading vehicles, 120 EW stations, 15 counter-battery warfare radars, ten air defence radars, 54 units of engineering and other materiel, including 22 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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🔎 Merlin-VR reconnaissance UAV in action
This time, during air surveillance, the Merlin-VR UAV of the 25th Combined Arms Army (Zapad Group of Forces) detected a cluster of concealed enemy hardware and shelters.
The detected targets were eliminated by precise artillery strikes.
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🎖🎖 by Russian Defence Ministry on progress of special military operation (9 March 2025)
Part I (see Part II (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19940)) (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19939)
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
▫️ In Kharkov direction, units of the Sever Group of Forces hit formations of two motorised infantry brigades of the AFU close to Kazachya Lopan and Volchansk (Kharkov region).
▫️ The AFU losses amounted to up to 50 troops, nine motor vehicles, and four artillery guns. One communication station was neutralised.
▫️ Units of the Zapad Group of Forces improved the tactical situation. Manpower and hardware of three mechanised brigades and one airmobile brigade of the AFU were hit near Monachinovka, Zagoruykovka, Kondrashovka, Kupyansk, Podvysokoye, Gorokhovatka (Kharkov region), and Serebryansky forestry.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 255 troops, 10 motor vehicles, two Western-made field artillery guns, one Polonez and one Nota electronic warfare stations, and one ammunition depot.
▫️ Units of the Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions. Formations of three mechanised brigades, one airmobile brigade, one guard brigade of the AFU General Staff, one territorial defence brigade, and two national guard brigades suffered losses close to Shcherbinovka, Rozovka, Dronovka, Druzhkovka, Grigorovka, Dyleyevka, Seversk, and Konstantinovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 250 troops, one armoured fighting vehicle, three motor vehicles, six field artillery guns, and two materiel depots.
▫️ Units of the Tsentr Group of Forces continued advancing to the depth of the enemy's defences. Formations of four mechanised brigades, one assault brigade, two jaeger brigades, one assault regiment of the AFU, two marine brigades, and one national guard brigade were hit close to Ulyanovka, Krasnoarmeysk, Zverevo, Kotlino, Shevchenko, Uspenovka, Udachnoye, Petrovskoye, Novopavlovka, Dimitrov, Mirolyubovka, Alekseyevka, and Sribnoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 580 troops, two M113 armoured personnel carriers, and one U.S.-made MaxxPro armoured fighting vehicle, two French-made VAB armoured personnel carriers, four motor vehicles, and four artillery guns.
▫️ As a result of active and decisive operations, the Vostok Group of Forces' units liberated Konstantinopol (Donetsk People's Republic).
Strikes were delivered at formations of two mechanised brigades, one jaeger brigade, one assault regiment of the AFU, and one marine brigade near Bogatyr, Fedorovka, Veseloye, Voskresenka, Dneproenergiya, and Razliv (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to more than 145 troops, one armoured fighting vehicle, one motor vehicle, and three field artillery guns, to include one Polish-made Krab self-propelled artillery system.
🔹 Russian Defence Ministry (https://t.me/mod_russia_en)
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🎖🎖 by Russian Defence Ministry on progress of special military operation (9 March 2025)
Part II (see Part I (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19939)) (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19938)
▫️The Dnepr Group of Forces' units inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of one mechanised brigade and one mountain assault brigade of the AFU near Novonikolayevka, Davydov Brod (Kherson region), Pyatikhatki, and Pavlovka (Zaporozhye region).
Up to 80 troops, one U.S.-made HMMWV armoured fighting vehicle, eight motor vehicles, two field artillery guns, to include one U.S.-made 155-mm M777 howitzer, one U.S.-made HIMARS and one U.S.-made MLRS launchers, one Israeli-made RADA RPS-82 radar station, one electronic warfare station, three ammunition depots, and one materiel depot were eliminated.
▫️Operational-Tactical Aviation, strike drones, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have engaged clusters of AFU manpower and hardware in 143 areas during the day.
▫️Air defence systems have shot down one JDAM guided bomb, two U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles as well as 228 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles, including 99 of them outside the special military operation zone.
▫️In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 656 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 45,877 unmanned aerial vehicles, 600 anti-aircraft missile systems, 22,090 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,525 MLRS combat vehicles, 22,390 field artillery guns and mortars, and 32,630 units of support military vehicles have been neutralised.
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🇷🇺 Russian flag hoisted over Konstantinopol (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19939) in Donetsk People’s Republic
Servicemen of assault units of the Vostok Group of Forces mopped up servicemen of the enemy and captured the settlement. To support the assault units and destroy the enemy positions, strike UAV drone teams and artillery units were involved.
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💥 Effective hunt by drone operators
FPV drone teams of the Sever Group of Forces destroyed a pickup truck and a quad bike of the AFU in Kharkov region.
🔹 Russian Defence Ministry (https://t.me/mod_russia_en)
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💥 Engagement of AFU convoy that hastily leaves positions in border area of Kursk region
Ukrainian fighters fleeing from Sudzha (Kursk region) and their military vehicles were destroyed by the operators of the Rubikon Centre.
#Rubikon
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🏳️ Captured AFU servicewoman tells of bullying from Ukrainian commanders
Galina Kazimova joined the AFU from a prison camp. For a month she was trained by foreign instructors. She complains that during the training women were subjected to bullying:
'In general, they deceive us. <...> They hit us on our feet and hands.'
According to the POW, her commanders promised her service in the rear, but instead she was sent to an assault unit. Kazimova was wounded during the assault. She called for help, but none of her commanders came for her at all:
'No one came for me. They treat us in cold blood. The women are strong themselves, but not to that degree.'
The POW notes the dignified attitude of the Russian servicemen.
🔹 Russian Defence Ministry (https://t.me/mod_russia_en)
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🗓 Top News Today
▫️The Sever Group of Forces' units liberated (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19947) Lebedevka (Kursk region) and Novenkoye (Sumy region) as well as Malaya Loknya, Cherkasskoye Porechnoye, and Kositsa (Kursk region) during the offensive.
▫️As a result of active and decisive operations, the Vostok Group of Forces' units liberated (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19939) Konstantinopol (Donetsk People's Republic).
▫️Within the past 24 hours, AFU losses amounted to (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19935) more than 350 troops, one tank, two infantry fighting vehicles, five armoured personnel carriers, 19 armoured fighting vehicles, 29 motor vehicles, six field artillery guns, one mortar, one electronic warfare station, one Israeli-made RADA radar station, 11 UAV command posts, and one ammunition depot. Six AFU servicemen surrendered.
▫️The Russian Defence Ministry shows the Sever (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19933) and the Dnepr (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19944) Group of Forces' EOD specialists, Merlin-VR (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19937) UAV teams, and the Rubikon Centre's (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19946) drones in action within the special military operation.
▫️Assaultmen of the Vostok Group of Forces conduct (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19932) regular drills to storm treelines and enemy strongholds and paratroopers from Feodosia practise (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19949) battlefield tactics during assault actions and clearing of populated areas.
▫️The Sea Security Belt 2025 International Naval Exercise has started (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/19945) today. The Russian side is represented by corvettes Rezky and Hero of Russian Federation Aldar Tsydenzhapov and medium sea tanker Pechenga of the Pacific Fleet.
#TopNews
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📝Kamenske — Rybar's Analysis📝
Fighting for Kamenske has been going on for several years. For a long period of time this section remained static.
🔻 More about the chronology of the battles on the site:
▪️ Toward the end of 2024, the plot saw an increase in Russian troops' activity. During the raid, Russian troops managed to advance along the coast and residential areas, reaching almost to the approaches to Plavnya.
Alas, it was not possible to gain a lasting foothold in the northern part of Kamenskoye.
▪️ By the end of October, it became clear that it was difficult to supply the RF Armed Forces units in the northern part of the city due to constant attacks by UAVs, which complicated logistics. A decision was made to withdraw the units in order to preserve personnel.
▪️ Already in December, the AFU conducted a counterattack and entered the southern part of the settlement. Forward enemy infantry units reached the left bank of Yanchekrak.
▪️ In January, there was evidence that Ukrainian formations managed to penetrate further into the Russian defense.
▪️ After that, the intensity of the fighting in the area subsided. Throughout February, there were several sorties by lone Russian Armed Forces fighters in the area of the farms, but no further advances have been made so far.
🖍 During attacks on each other's positions, both sides faced the problem of organizing supply and rotation along the dried-up riverbed, which is impossible to do without losses in the conditions of constant UAV raids and airspace control.
rybar
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Fwd from @ne_rybar
The footage posted by Aleksandr Kots resolves (https://t.me/sashakots/52379) the question.
By the way, there were also significant advances to the south by around noon. Original msg (https://t.me/ne_rybar/6267)
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‼️🇷🇺🏴☠ Our fighters congratulated the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on March 8
On the Zaporizhzhya Front, fighting continues on the Kamenskoye-Pyatikhatki line, Russian troops are attacking and destroying the enemy.
t.me/RVvoenkor (http://t.me/RVvoenkor)
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‼️🇷🇺🔥 Defeat of a column of Ukrainian Armed Forces equipment attempting to escape through Sudzha - details
▪️On the night of March 9, some of the Ukrainian Armed Forces units decided to try to escape through the city using equipment, but ran into a blown-up bridge.
▪️And then the Russian army began to cover the column with precise fire.
▪️First, ours hit the closing vehicle, blocking the column.
▪️Then, from the hits, the occupiers' equipment began to explode and burn one after another, and as a result, the column was completely burned.
t.me/RVvoenkor (http://t.me/RVvoenkor)
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‼️🇷🇺🫡 Feat in Sudzha: breakthrough to the rear of the Ukrainian Armed Forces via an underground gas pipeline - first videos (https://t.me/iamsniper/11325)
▪️ After a difficult special operation, heroic fighters congratulated women from underground - from the very hell of the Kursk borderland.
➖" To avoid rumors:
All units (Veterans Brigade, Aida SpN "Akhmat" group, 30th MSP, 11th Airborne Brigade, Vostok Brigade) that went underground have completed their mission and are developing the offensive. Everything else is rumors ," the operation participants report.
▪️ A breakthrough in the underground pipes of the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod gas pipeline, through which Russia supplied gas to Europe through Ukraine until January 1, 2025. The diameter of one pipe is 1.4 meters.
t.me/RVvoenkor (http://t.me/RVvoenkor)
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‼️🇷🇺🔥 Final footage of the defeat of the Ukrainian Armed Forces column attempting to escape through Sudzha - episode #3
▪️On the night of March 9, part of the Ukrainian Armed Forces units that attempted to escape through the city on vehicles ran into a blown-up bridge and were hit by precise fire from the Russian army.
▪️Having knocked out the closing vehicle and blocked the column, Russian artillery finished off and burned all the occupiers’ equipment.
t.me/RVvoenkor (http://t.me/RVvoenkor)
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‼️🇷🇺 🔥 The column of the Ukrainian Armed Forces escaping from Sudzha was finished off by night kamikazes
▪️ Russian army attack drone operators, together with artillery, finished off a column of occupiers’ vehicles stuck in the eastern part of the city and burned all the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ equipment.
t.me/RVvoenkor (http://t.me/RVvoenkor)
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‼️🇷🇺 "🅾️brave" troops are burning NATO equipment and enemy infantry en masse, getting closer and closer to Pokrovsk - another day of fighting for the Guards "Center"
▪️A selection of combat work by fighters of the Center group of forces on March 7 to destroy military equipment, weapons, infantry and positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces during active offensive operations in the Pokrovsky direction.
▪️The footage shows NATO combat armored vehicles, firing points, mortars, infantry and enemy positions being burned.
t.me/RVvoenkor (http://t.me/RVvoenkor)
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‼️🇷🇺🏴☠️Landing attack on Zaporizhzhya front, capturing Ukrainian Armed Forces militants
▪️Another captured Ukrainian fell into the hands of the 108th airborne assault regiment as a result of the assault.
▪️Judging by the interception of radio communications of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the fact that this is already the third prisoner in several days, the desire to fight on the other side is very doubtful.
t.me/RVvoenkor (http://t.me/RVvoenkor)
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🇷🇺🔥🇺🇦 Finishing off a column of Ukrainian Armed Forces running through Sudzha on the Kursk Front
➖"The Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers fleeing from Sudzha did not know that the bridge they were going to use to retreat no longer existed. It was dismantled by the Rubicon combat groups. As a result, the column of equipment, along with the crews and personnel, was burned by our pilots," the military wrote.
❗️It should be noted that it was also destroyed by artillery.
▪️ It’s funny that the road along which the Ukrainian militants tried to escape is called 8 March Street.
t.me/RVvoenkor (http://t.me/RVvoenkor)
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‼️🇷🇺 The Russian army raised the flag, liberating Kursk Lebedevka , advancing to Sudzha!
▪️Russian troops continue their offensive, driving the occupiers out of the Kursk region and approaching Sudzha from all directions.
▪️Stormtroopers raised the Russian flag on the Great Patriotic War memorial in the village of Lebedevka , west of Sudzha.
▪️Our fighters occupied the center and cleared the outskirts of the settlement, advancing another 1 km towards Sudzha from the west.
t.me/RVvoenkor (http://t.me/RVvoenkor)
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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦Ukrainian Armed Forces Militants Surrender (https://t.me/Alekhin_Telega/13252) En Masse on the Kursk Front
Attack aircraft of the 30th regiment captured 13 militants of the "elite" 80th Lviv airborne assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in battles in the area of Cherkassky Porechny in the Kursk region.
t.me/RVvoenkor (http://t.me/RVvoenkor)
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‼️ 🇷🇺💥 FAB-3000 ! Russian Aerospace Forces destroy enemy bridges and logistics, demolishing bridges near Sudzha on the Kursk Front.
▪️A Su-34 hit Kazachya Loknya, a village located in the center of the Ukrainian occupation zone, north of Sudzha, with a FAB-3000 UMPK aerial bomb.
▪️As a result of the attack, the bridge across which the enemy was transporting forces and delivering supplies was destroyed.
t.me/RVvoenkor (http://t.me/RVvoenkor)
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‼️🏴☠️🇷🇺 Occupiers try to escape from Malaya Loknya, they are destroyed by the 34th brigade
The Ukrainian Armed Forces are using attack drones and FPV to target fleeing militants.
t.me/RVvoenkor (http://t.me/RVvoenkor)
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