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May 07, 2025

Vostok Group's Giatsint-S self-propelled guns wiped out AFU strongholds and command posts in South Donetsk direction.

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

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💥 Vostok Group's Grad MLRS crews thwart AFU rotation in South Donetsk direction

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

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🎮 The Yug Group's attack drones obliterated an Akatsiya self-propelled artillery system and an AFU motor vehicle.

📍 The Akatsiya self-propelled artillery system was camouflaged in a forest belt at a distance of about 10 kilometres from the front line. Pilots operating Molniya UAVs and FPV drones of the 200th Separate Motorised Rifle Brigade wiped out the target.

💥 Artillerymen of the 6th Motorised Rifle Division near Predtechino engaged the motor vehicle. And FPV drone teams smashed the target.

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

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00:00 In Orekhov direction, the Novorossiysk paratroopers' UAV crew destroyed an AFU Baba Yaga-type hexacopter during in an air battle.

00:31 FPV drone operators of the Vostok Group of Forces hit an AFU field artillery gun close to Gulyaipole in Zaporozhye direction.

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

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The Tsentr Group's TOS-2 Tosochka crew hit AFU positions in Krasnoarmeysk direction.

🔥 A powerful thermobaric strike destroyed the enemy's fortified stronghold and facilitated advancement of assault detachments.

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

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🎖🎖 by Russian Defence Ministry on progress of special military operation as of 7 May 2025

👮‍♂️ The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.

💥 Units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted strikes on clusters of manpower and hardware of two mechanised brigades, one motorised infantry brigade, one assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and two territorial defence brigades close to Pavlovka, Yunakovka, Miropolye, Turya, and Kazachya Lopan (Kharkov region).

▪️ The AFU losses amounted to up to 255 troops, one tank, eight armoured fighting vehicles, 25 motor vehicles, three engineering vehicles, one field artillery gun, and one ammunition depot.

🚩 As a result of active and resolute operations, units of the Zapad Group of Forces liberated Lipovoye (Donetsk People's Republic).

🔥 Strikes were inflicted on three mechanised brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, one National Guard brigade, and one territorial defence brigade near Gusinka, Staroverovka, Kupyansk, Nechvolodovka (Kharkov region) and Yampol (Donetsk People's Republic).

▪️ The AFU losses amounted to more than 230 troops, an armoured fighting vehicle, 11 motor vehicles, five field artillery guns, a Kvertus electronic warfare station, and three ammunition depots.

📍 Units of the Yug Group of Forces improved the tactical situation. They inflicted fire damage on four mechanised brigades, one special operations brigade, and two territorial defence brigades near Seversk, Belaya Gora, Romanovka, Zarya, Konstantinovka, and Katerinovka (Donetsk People's Republic).

▪️ The AFU losses amounted to more than 320 troops, one tank, and 10 armoured fighting vehicles, including four U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carriers, 11 motor vehicles, and five field artillery guns. Three ammunition depots were neutralised.

👉 See Part 2 (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/21082)

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

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🎖🎖 by Russian Defence Ministry on progress of special military operation as of 7 May 2025

Part 2 (👉 see Part 1 (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/21081))

📍 The Tsentr Group's units improved the situation along the front line. They hit two mechanised brigades, two assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, one marine brigade, and one National Guard brigade near Muravka, Alekseyevka, Zverevo, Mirolyubovka, Novosergeyevka, and Dimitrov (Donetsk People's Republic).

▪️ The enemy lost more than 490 troops, one tank, one armoured fighting vehicle, eight motor vehicles, one U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS launcher, and two field artillery guns.

↗️ The Vostok Group's units continued to advance to the depths of the enemy's defence. They inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of two mechanised brigades of the AFU and two territorial defence brigades near Bogatyr, Fedorovka (Donetsk People's Republic), Chervonoye, and Gulyaipole (Zaporozhye region).

▪️ The enemy losses amounted to up to 225 troops, one tank, six armoured fighting vehicles, four motor vehicles, two field artillery guns, and one electronic warfare station.

💥 Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted fire damage on one mechanised brigade, mountain assault brigade and one coastal defence brigade near Olgovka, Nikolayevka (Kherson region) and Pavlovka (Zaporozhye region).

▪️ Up to 60 troops, six motor vehicles, and two ammunition depots have been neutralised.

✈️ Operational-tactical aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have hit the launching sites of unmanned aerial vehicles, infrastructure of military airfields, depots of uncrewed surface vehicles and ammunition, as well as temporary deployment areas of Ukrainian armed formations and foreign mercenaries in 149 areas.

🎯 Russian air defence systems shot down five Neptune guided long-range missiles, six JDAM guided aerial bombs, and two U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles, as well as 524 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.

📊 In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the enemy has lost:

▫️ 662 aircraft,

▫️ 283 helicopters,

▫️ 56,178 unmanned aerial vehicles,

▫️ 605 anti-aircraft missile systems,

▫️ 23,205 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles,

▫️ 1,559 MLRS combat vehicles,

▫️ 24,529 field artillery guns and mortars,

▫️ 35,127 special military vehicles.

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

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🎮 The Rubikon Centre's drone pilots disable the enemy's communications equipment in the South Donetsk direction.

💥 This time, FPV drone teams hit:

▪️ satellite antennas,

▪️ Plastun electronic reconnaissance systems,

▪️ RADA radar,

▪️ UAV radio relay station.

#Rubikon

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🎮 Geran-2 unmanned aerial vehicles hit ammunition depots of the 142nd Separate Mechanised Brigade and 117th Separate Heavy Mechanised Brigade close to Dobropolye and Andreyevka.

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

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🌐 Place: #DonetskRegion

🕰 Date: ~06.05.2025

📌 Coordinates: 48.482393,37.073628

48.808128,37.626870

👩‍🚀 Squad:

📝 Description: As a result of Russian Geran strikes, ammunition depots of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were blown up in Donetsk region.

🖥 id: 07052025.0739

✉️source: https://t.me/The_Wrong_Side/23507

Map: militarysummary.com (https://militarysummary.com/#/map)

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🌐 Place: #Tyotkino

🕰 Date: ~06.05.2025

📌 Coordinates: 51.264390,34.239181

👩‍🚀 Squad:

📝 Description: Russian FABs burn out positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Tyotkino.

🖥 id: 07052025.0723

✉️source: https://t.me/control_sigma/41548

Map: militarysummary.com (https://militarysummary.com/#/map)

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🌐 Place: #Novoolenivka

🕰 Date: ~06.05.2025

📌 Coordinates: 00:05 48.3984,37.534

00:14 48.398922,37.535338

02:40 48.396298,37.536953

👩‍🚀 Squad:

📝 Description: Footage of Russian military attack and capture of positions in Novoolenivka.

🖥 id: 07052025.0718

✉️source: https://t.me/dva_majors/70671

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🌐 Place: #Horikhove

🕰 Date: ~07.05.2025

📌 Coordinates: 48.1007963,36.8610546

👩‍🚀 Squad: #Sudoplatov

📝 Description: Footage of the destruction of Ukrainian Armed Forces equipment by Russian FPV drones near Horikhove.

🖥 id: 07052025.1444

✉️source: https://t.me/sudoplatov_official/4840

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🌐 Place: #VelykaPysarivka

🕰 Date: ~07.05.2025

📌 Coordinates: 50.411065,35.476328

👩‍🚀 Squad:

📝 Description: Russian FPV drones destroyed 5 armored vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Velyka Pysarivka.

🖥 id: 07052025.1621

✉️source: https://t.me/warriorofnorth/8124

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Thursday

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🗓 Top News Today

▫️ Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov held talks with Minister of National Defence of the Republic of the Congo Lieutenant General Charles Richard Mondjo (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/21084) and Minister of Defence of the Republic of Abkhazia Colonel General Vladimir Anua (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/21088).

▫️ As a result of active and resolute operations, units of the Zapad Group of Forces liberated (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/21080) Lipovoye (Donetsk People's Republic).

▫️ Russian air defence systems shot down (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/21082)five Neptune guided long-range missiles, six JDAM guided aerial bombs, and two U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles, as well as 524 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.

▫️ The Russian Defence Ministry shows UAV (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/21077) teams, TOS-2 (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/21079) Tosochka, Grad (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/21075) MLRS, and Giatsint-S (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/21078) guns in action.

#TopNews

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Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov and heads of foreign delegations laid flowers and wreaths to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Alexander Garden near the Kremlin's wall on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

🔹 The event was attended by senior military officials from Abkhazia, Algeria, Belarus, Burkina Faso, Egypt, India, Kazakhstan, Cuba, Laos, Libya, Myanmar, Mongolia, Niger, Nigeria, Thailand, Equatorial Guinea, South Ossetia, and South Africa.

🕯 The participants of the ceremony honoured the memory of fallen warriors by a minute of silence. The ceremony ended with the marching of a company of the Guard of Honour and a band company.

⬆️ The ceremony of laying wreaths by state officials at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is a well-established tradition.

The ashes of the Unknown Soviet soldier were transferred from a mass grave in Moscow region and reburied in Alexander Garden during a solemn ceremony in 1966. The following year a memorial was opened here, the key element of which was the Eternal Flame.

The guard of honour at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier - ‘Post No. 1’ - was established in 1997. ⬇️

#Victory80

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🎖🎖 by Russian Defence Ministry on progress of special military operation as of 8 May 2025

💥 Before the ceasefire came into effect, units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted losses on manpower and hardware clusters of one tank brigade, three mechanised brigades, one assault regiment of the AFU, and two territorial defence brigades near Ryzhevka, Pavlovka, Yunakovka, Miropolye, Turya (Sumy region), and Velikiy Burluk (Kharkov region).

▪️ The AFU losses amounted to up to 215 troops, two tanks, five armoured fighting vehicles, 11 motor vehicles, one counterobstacle vehicle, four field artillery guns, and one ammunition depot.

📍 Units of the Zapad Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions. Losses were inflicted on formations of two mechanised brigades, one airmobile brigade of the AFU, and one national guard brigade near Redkodub, Kirovsk, Torskoye, Yampol (Donetsk People's Republic), Palamarevka, and Kupyansk (Kharkov region).

▪️ The AFU losses amounted to up to 235 troops, three armoured fighting vehicles, including one U.S.-made M113 armoured fighting vehicle, eight pickup trucks, four artillery guns, including two NATO-made guns, and two electronic warfare stations.

📍 The Yug Group of Forces' units improved the tactical situation. Losses were inflicted on manpower and hardware of six mechanised brigades, one airmobile brigade of the AFU, and one territorial defence brigade near Serebryanka, Zakotnoye, Aleksandro-Shulgino, Pleshcheyevka, Aleksandro-Kalinovo, Zarya, and Konstantinovka (Donetsk People's Republic).

▪️ The AFU losses amounted to more than 290 troops, three armoured fighting vehicles, including two Canadian-made Senator armoured personnel carriers, five motor vehicles, and two field artillery guns. Two ammunition depots were destroyed.

🚩 As a result of active and decisive operations, units of the Tsentr Group of Forces have liberated Troitskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).

🔥 Losses were inflicted on formations of one heavy mechanised brigade, three mechanised brigades, one assault brigade of the AFU, one marine brigade, and one national guard brigade near Novoolenovka, Ulyanovka, Mirolyubovka, Mikhaylovka, Novaya Poltavka, Novoaleksandrovka, Kotlyarovka, and Alekseyevka (Donetsk People's Republic).

▪️ The AFU losses amounted to up to 510 troops, five armoured fighting vehicles, including one U.S.-made BATT UMG and one Turkish-made Kirpi armoured fighting vehicles, five motor vehicles, one U.S.-made 155-mm Paladin self-propelled artillery system, and one Bukovel-AD electronic warfare station.

👉 See Part 2 (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/21103)

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

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🎖🎖 by Russian Defence Ministry on progress of special military operation as of 8 May 2025

Part 2 (👉 see Part 1 (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/21102))

↗️ Units of the Vostok Group of Forces continued advancing into the depth of enemy defence. Losses were inflicted on manpower and hardware of one mechanised brigade, one air assault brigade of the AFU, and two territorial defence brigades near Bogatyr, Novoukrainka, Fedorovka (Donetsk People's Republic), and Temirovka (Zaporozhye region).

▪️ The AFU losses amounted to up to 195 troops, one armoured fighting vehicle, four motor vehicles, five field artillery guns, one BM-21 Grad MLRS launcher, and one electronic warfare station.

💥 Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted losses on formations of three mechanised brigades, three coastal defence brigades of the AFU, and two territorial defence brigades near Novodanilovka, Pavlovka, Kamenskoye (Zaporozhye region), Ilyinka (Dnepropetrovsk region), and Ponyatovka (Kherson region).

▪️ The AFU losses amounted to up to 80 troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, four motor vehicles, one artillery gun, one electronic warfare station, and one ammunition depot.

✈️ Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack drones, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces struck infrastructure of military airfields as well as temporary deployment areas of Ukrainian armed formations and foreign mercenaries in 132 areas.

🎯 Over the past 24 hours, air defence units shot down two U.S.-made JDAM guided aerial bombs and one HIMARS MLRS projectile, one Neptune long-range guided missile as well as 182 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.

📊 In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the enemy has lost:

▫️ 662 aircraft,

▫️ 283 helicopters,

▫️ 56,360 unmanned aerial vehicles,

▫️ 605 anti-aircraft missile systems,

▫️ 23,226 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles,

▫️ 1,560 MLRS combat vehicles,

▫️ 24,596 field artillery guns and mortars,

▫️ 35,164 units of support military vehicles.

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

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