War - Field Reports - 2025-03-17

🔥 The Yug Group of Forces’ Grad MLRS crews of the 27th Artillery Regiment inflict fire damage on enemy positions near Chasov Yar.

Artillerymen launched an attack destroying a UAV command post and dugouts of the AFU.

🔹 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 (15 March 2025

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

🚩 During offensive actions, units of the Sever Group of Forces liberated Zaoleshenka and Rubanshchina.

💥 In addition, Russian troops launched strikes on formations of one mechanised brigade, two air assault brigades, two territorial defence brigades, and one assault regiment of the AFU near Gogolevka, Gornal, Guyevo, and Oleshnya.

🛫 Operational-Tactical and Army aviation and artillery strikes engaged AFU manpower and hardware near Zapselye, Loknya, Aleksandriya, Basovka, Belovody, Veselovka, Vodolagi, Zhuravka, Miropolye, Mogritsa, Novaya Sech, Novenkoye, Obody, Sadki, Yunakovka, and Yablonovka in Sumy region.

▪️The AFU losses were more than 220 troops, one tank, one infantry fighting vehicle, one armoured fighting vehicle, four motor vehicles, two artillery guns, two mortars, one UAV command post, and one ammunition depot.

📊 Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk direction, the AFU losses amounted to:

▫️more than 67,630 troops,

▫️393 tanks,

▫️317 infantry fighting vehicles,

▫️283 armoured personnel carriers,

▫️2,199 armoured fighting vehicles;

▫️2,437 motor vehicles,

▫️555 artillery guns,

▫️52 MLRS launchers, including 13 of HIMARS and seven of MLRS made by the USA,

▫️26 anti-aircraft missile launchers, one self-propelled anti-aircraft system, ten transport-loading vehicles,

▫️120 EW stations,

▫️16 counter-battery warfare radars, ️ten air defence radars,

▫️56 units of engineering and other materiel, including 23 counterobstacle vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, five bridge launchers, one engineering reconnaissance vehicle as well as 15 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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🎖🎖 by Russian Defence Ministry on progress of special military operation (15 March 2025)

⚡️ 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 formations of two mechanised brigades of the AFU close to Volchansk and Liptsy (Kharkov region).

▪️The AFU losses were up to 45 troops, four motor vehicles, one artillery gun, and one signal intelligence station.

📍Units of the Zapad Group of Forces improved the tactical situation. Russian troops delivered strikes at manpower and hardware of one motorised infantry brigade, one assault brigade, two territorial defence brigades close to Druzhelyubovka, Novosergeyevka, Cherneshchina, Proletarskoye (Kharkov region), Grekovka (Lugansk People's Republic), and Radkodub (Donetsk People's Republic).

▪️The AFU losses were more than 255 troops, four armoured fighting vehicles, including one U.S.-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicle, and one Austrian-made Pinzgauer Vector armoured vehicle, two pickup trucks, four field artillery guns, and three ammunition depots.

📍Units of the Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions. Russian troops launched attacks on formations of two mechanised brigades, one motorised infantry brigade, and one airmobile brigade of the AFU near Seversk, Serebryanka, Verolyubovka, Konstantinovka, and Artema (Donetsk People's Republic).

▪️The AFU losses were more than 260 troops, one U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carrier, five motor vehicles, one field artillery gun, one Croatian-made RAK-SA-12 multiple-launch rocket system launcher. Two electronic warfare stations and one ammunition depot were eliminated.

↗️ The Tsentr Group of Forces' units continued advancing into the depths of enemy defences, defeated formations of two mechanised brigades, one jaeger brigade of the AFU, one marine brigade, and one National Guard brigade near Filiya (Dnepropetrovsk region), Petrovskoye, Udachnoye, Dimitrov, Shevchenko, Krasnoarmeysk, and Uspenovka (Donetsk People's Republic).

▪️The AFU losses were up to 465 troops, four armoured fighting vehicles, including one U.S.-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicle, eight motor vehicles, and three artillery guns.

👉 Read Part II (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/20070)

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

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🎖🎖 by Russian Defence Ministry on progress of special military operation (15 March 2025)

🔥 The Vostok Group of Forces' units improved the situation along the front line as well as defeated formations of two mechanised brigades, one motorised infantry brigade of the AFU, and three territorial defence brigades close to Iskra, Zeleny Gai, Konstantinopol, and Fyodorovka (Donetsk People's Republic).

▪️The AFU losses were more than 160 troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, six motor vehicles, and two field artillery guns.

💥 Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces engaged manpower and hardware of three coastal defence brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine close to Olgovka, Nikolskoye, and Sadovoye (Kherson region).

▪️The AFU losses were up to 80 troops and three motor vehicles.

🛫 Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack unmanned aerial vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces engaged the infrastructure of military airfields, drone manufacturing shops, ammunition and logistics depots, power facilities supporting Ukranian defence industry enterprises as well as clusters of manpower and hardware of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and foreign mercenaries in 162 areas.

💥 One MiG-29 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force was shot down.

🔎 Air defence facilities shot down seven JDAM guided bombs and three U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles, 170 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles including 141 that were destroyed out of the special military operation zone.

📊 In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the AFU losses amounted to:

▫️658 aircraft,

▫️283 helicopters,

▫️46,776 unmanned aerial vehicles,

▫️601 anti-aircraft missile systems,

▫️22,285 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles,

▫️1,527 MLRS combat vehicles,

▫️22,581 field artillery guns and mortars,

▫️32,902 units of special military vehicles.

👉 Read Part I (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/20069)

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

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🏳️ Captured AFU serviceman tells how he was mobilised even convicted on criminal charge and sent to slaughter without any training

Ukrainian resident Bogdan Yefimov got his draft notice at a bus station even convicted on a criminal charge.

'There were documents sent to a military commandant's office. There was an order to redeploy certain percentage of soldiers in another unit. That's how I got to the 32nd Brigade. I became a grenade launcher. I don't even know how to use these launchers . I didn't have any training at all,' said the POW.

Having arrived in the unit, he and his comrades were sent to slaughter without a chance to return home.

'The command said we should go on a position. If we said no, they would have sent us to a disciplinary battalion. At the moment, I wish I wasn't in the army. It was a difficult period for me. I couldn't find a way out of it,' the prisoner said.

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

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🗓 Top News Today

▫️The Russian Armed Forces continue (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/20066) the operation to neutralise AFU formations on the territory of Kursk region. During offensive actions, units of the Sever Group of Forces liberated (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/20065) Zaoleshenka and Rubanshchina.

▫️Engineer Troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation started (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/20064) mine clearance missions in the border area of Kursk region liberated from AFU militants in order to restore socially significant and infrastructure facilities. These actions are needed to develop peaceful life and economic activities in the region after fierce fighting.

▫️The Sever Group of Forces' servicemen told (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/20080) about the liberation of Russkaya Konopelka and Agronom in Kursk region.

▫️ The Russian Defence Ministry shows Grad (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/20062) MLRSs, EOD specialists, (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/20063) and combat drills of assault detachments (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/20086) in action within the special military operation.

#TopNews

🔹 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 (16 March 2025)

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

💥 During the offensive, the Sever Group of Forces inflicted fire damage on formations of one mechanised brigade, two air assault brigades, two territorial defence brigades, and one assault regiment of the AFU close to Gogolevka, Gornal, Guyevo, and Oleshnya.

🛫Operational-Tactical and Army aviation and artillery strikes engaged AFU manpower and hardware near Gogolevka, Gornal, Guyevo, Zapselye, Loknya, and Oleshnya as well as Basovka, Belovody, Veselovka, Vodolagi, Zhuravka, Miropolye, Novaya Sech, Novenkoye, Obody, Yunakovka, and Yablonovka (Sumy region).

▪️ Over the course of the day, the AFU losses were over 220 troops, one tank, two armoured personnel carriers, one armoured fighting vehicle, five motor vehicles, three artillery guns, and one UAV command post.

📊 Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk direction, the AFU losses amounted to:

▫️ more than 67,850 troops,

▫️394 tanks,

▫️317 infantry fighting vehicles,

▫️285 armoured personnel carriers,

▫️2,200 armoured fighting vehicles;

▫️2,442 motor vehicles,

▫️558 artillery guns,

▫️52 MLRS launchers, including 13 of HIMARS and seven of MLRS made by the USA,

▫️26 anti-aircraft missile launchers, one self-propelled anti-aircraft system, ten transport-loading vehicles,

▫️120 EW stations,

▫️16 counter-battery warfare radars, ️ten air defence radars,

▫️56 units of engineering and other materiel, including 23 counterobstacle vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, five bridge launchers, one engineering reconnaissance vehicle as well as 15 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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🎖🎖 by Russian Defence Ministry on progress of special military operation (16 March 2025)

⚡️ 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 formations of one assault battalion of the AFU and one border detachment of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine close to Perovskoye and Kazachya Lopan (Kharkov region).

▪️ The AFU losses amounted to up to 70 troops, six motor vehicles, four artillery guns, and one electronic warfare station.

📍Units of the Zapad Group of Forces improved the tactical situation. Russian troops delivered strikes at manpower and hardware of one mechanised brigade, one assault brigade, and one artillery brigade of the AFU near Izyumskoye, Vyssheye Solenoye, Borovaya, Druzhelyubovka, Katerinovka (Kharkov region), and Novoye (Donetsk People's Republic).

▪️The AFU losses amounted to up to 240 troops, two U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carriers, one armoured fighting vehicle, ten motor vehicles, four field artillery guns, one Grad MLRS launcher, and two Kvertus electronic warfare stations.

📍Units of the Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions. Formations of seven mechanised brigades, one airmobile brigade, one mountain assault brigade, one assault brigade, one UAV brigade of the AFU, and one territorial defence brigade were hit near Seversk, Novaya Poltavka, Krymskoye, Novoolenovka, Gorkogo, Pleshcheyevka, Dronovka, Konstantinovka, Nikiforovka, Stupochki, and Ivanpolye (Donetsk People's Republic).

▪️The AFU losses amounted to up to 305 troops, one tank, one armoured fighting vehicle, four motor vehicles, seven field artillery guns, to include four Western-made artillery guns and one Croatian-made RAK-SA-12 MLRS launcher. One materiel depot was destroyed.

↗️ Units of the Tsentr Group of Forces continued advancing into the depth of enemy defences. Russian troops launched an attack on four mechanised brigades, two jaeger brigades, one assault brigade, one UAV brigade, one assault regiment of the AFU, two marine brigades, and one national guard brigade near Shevchenko, Krasnoarmeysk, Zverevo, Sribnoye, Petrovskoye, Udachnoye, Ulyanovka, Peschanoye, Uspenovka, Dimitrov, and Alekseyevka (Donetsk People's Republic).

▪️The AFU losses amounted to up to 450 troops, five armoured fighting vehicles, eight pickup trucks, five artillery guns, and one electronic warfare station.

👉 Read Part II (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/20096)

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

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