War - Field Reports - 2025-05-22

May 21, 2025

Top News Today from Russian Defense Ministry

▫️Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov inspected (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/21349) the Tsentr Group of Forces.

▫️Air defence systems shot down (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/21347) four U.S.-made JDAM guided aerial bombs and 89 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.

▫️The Russian Defence Ministry shows footage of an airborne mortar battery (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/21340), strike UAVs (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/21351), a TOS Solntsepyok (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/21352) heavy flamethrower, and an air defence (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/21341)unit.

▫️A naval search and strike force of the Northern Fleet conducted a planned drill (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/21344) in the Barents Sea.

▫️Two Tu-95ms long-range bombers conducted a planned flight (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/21346)in air space over neutral waters of the Barents Sea.

#TopNews

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

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💥 Tsentr Group's Msta-S self-propelled artillery system destroys enemy stronghold in Krasnoarmeysk direction

🎯 Air reconnaissance with the help of UAVs detected an enemy stronghold. The Msta-S self-propelled artillery crew promptly moved to the position, camouflaged the gun, and hit the target with a 152-mm high-explosive shell.

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

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Intensive training of assault detachments

Assault units of the 20th Combined Arms Army of the Zapad Group of Forces conduct combat training and cohesion in the rear area of the special military operation zone.

🪖 Experienced servicemen and instructors train servicemen to work in tactical groups, assault trenches, trenches, fortified areas, and strongholds of the enemy.

🎯 Servicemen also learn how to use small arms and grenades, and learn to operate in a difficult tactical environment of modern warfare.

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

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Night shelling at enemy's positions

The Yug Group's Grad MLRS crew eliminated enemy manpower and hardware.

📍 Konstantinovka, Kramatorsk-Druzhkovka direction

🔹 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 21 May 2025

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

💥 The Sever Group of Forces inflicted strikes on clusters of manpower and hardware of one tank brigade, five mechanised brigades, one air assault brigade, one air assault regiment, two assault regiments of the AFU, and four territorial defence brigades close to Sadki, Pavlovka, Varachino, Miropolye, Proletarskoye, Yablonovka, Mogritsa, and Bessalovka (Sumy region).

▪️ The AFU losses amounted to over 210 troops, two tanks, nine motor vehicles, and six field artillery guns, to include one U.S.-made 155-mm M777 howitzer. One ammunition depot was destroyed.

📍 Units of the Zapad Group of Forces improved the tactical situation. The Russian troops launched attacks on three mechanised brigades, one assault brigade of the AFU, one territorial defence brigade, and two national guard brigades near Kupyansk, Novoosinovo, Andreyevka, Nechvolodovka, Shiykovka, Glushchenkovo (Kharkov region), and Kirovsk (Donetsk People's Republic).

▪️ The AFU losses amounted to up to 210 troops, one tank, two Kazak armoured fighting vehicles, 11 motor vehicles, and one Polish-made 155-mm Krab self-propelled artillery system. One electronic warfare station and one ammunition depot were neutralised.

📍 Units of the Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions. Manpower and hardware of three mechanised brigades, one airmobile brigade, one assault brigade of the AFU, and one territorial defence brigade were hit near Serebryanka, Seversk, Predtechino, Konstantinovka, Minkovka, Zarya, and Aleksandro-Shultino (Donetsk People's Republic).

▪️ The enemy lost up to 220 troops, one tank, one U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carrier, one Kazak armoured fighting vehicle, one pickup truck, and one artillery gun. Two electronic warfare stations and two ammunition depots were eliminated.

💥 The Tsentr Group of Forces' units inflicted losses on formations of six mechanised brigades, one jaeger brigade, one assault brigade of the AFU, two marine brigades, one territorial defence brigade, one special operations brigade, two national guard brigades, and units of the International Legion near Koptevo, Rusin Yar, Krasnoarmeysk, Razino, Vladimirovka, Petrovskoye, Dimitrov, Oktyabrskoye, and Alekseyevka (Donetsk People's Republic).

▪️ The enemy losses amounted to more than 445 troops, four armoured fighting vehicles, six pickup trucks, and one artillery gun.

👉 See Part 2 (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/21360)

🔹 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 21 May 2025

Part 2 (👉 see Part 1 (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/21359))

📍 Units of the Vostok Group of Forces continued advancing into the depth of enemy defence. Two mechanised brigades, one air assault brigade of the AFU, one marine brigade, and one territorial defence brigade were hit close to Komar, Otradnoye, Novopol (Donetsk People's Republic), and Chervonoye (Zaporozhye region).

▪️ Up to 170 troops, four armoured fighting vehicles, three motor vehicles, and one field artillery gun were neutralised.

💥 The Dnepr Group of Forces' units inflicted losses on formations of one mountain assault brigade, one coastal defence brigade of the AFU, and one national guard regiment near Pavlovka, Novoandreyevka (Zaporozhye region), and Nikolskoye (Kherson region).

▪️ Up to 50 troops, one Kazak armoured fighting vehicle, three motor vehicles, one electronic warfare station, and two ammunition depots were eliminated.

✈️ Operational-Tactical Aviation, strike drones, missile troops, and artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation struck the training camp of Ukrainian armed formations, military airfield infrastructure, depots of ammunition and missile-artillery weapons as well as temporary deployment areas of AFU units and foreign mercenaries in 142 areas.

🎯 Air defence systems shot down six U.S.-made JDAM aerial bombs and 236 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles, including 162 drones out of the special military operation zone.

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

▫️ 662 aircraft,

▫️ 283 helicopters,

▫️ 58,043 unmanned aerial vehicles,

▫️ 605 anti-aircraft missile systems,

▫️ 23,441 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles,

▫️ 1,563 MLRS combat vehicles,

▫️ 25,115 field artillery guns and mortars,

▫️ 35,747 units of support military vehicles.

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

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Enemy tank no longer moves

🎮 The Rubikon Centre's specialists destroyed an AFU T-72 tank in Sumy direction of the special military operation.

#Rubikon

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

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🚩 Servicemen of 9th Motorised Rifle Brigade (Tsentr Group of Forces) liberate Novoaleksandrovka in Donetsk People's Republic

🫡 After engaging the AFU positions with kamikaze drones, the Russian servicemen wore anti-drone suits that concealed them from the enemy's thermal imaging systems, and successfully entered the settlement.

✅ The liberation of Novoaleksandrovka creates favourable conditions for the further advance towards Krasnoarmeysk.

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

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💥 The Vostok Group's D-30 howitzers inflicted fire damage on enemy temporary deployment areas close to Otradnoye.

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

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🎮 Vostok Group's Orlan-10 UAV team detects enemy targets in Zaporozhye direction

🔥 After that, the coordinates were transmitted to artillery crews, which destroyed UAV command posts, disrupted the communication system, and thwarted the attempt to rotate Ukrainian units.

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

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🎮 The Zapad Group's FPV drone destroyed one AFU Kozak armoured fighting vehicle in Kharkov region.

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

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🏳️ Captured AFU serviceman tells about about blatant brutality of Azov* militants

Сaptured Ukrainian serviceman Konstantin Yamashkin spoke about the inhumane attitude of the Azov* special forces brigade's militants towards the captured and killed Russian servicemen.

He says, 'How did you take prisoners of the war, why did you take them? You should have killed them.' I say, 'What do you mean, kill them? Well, if people surrender, why kill them at all?' And he said, 'No, you are not right, you have to kill them.' What is this even?' the POW reproduces a conversation with one of the Azov* terrorists.

Konstantin Yamashkin also noted that terrorists showed photographs in which they scoffed at the body of the dead Russian serviceman.

*A terrorist organisation banned in Russia.

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

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💥 Enemy communications interrupted

The 1431st Motorised Rifle Regiment's strike UAV operator (Sever Group of Forces) destroyed a Starlink satellite communication station in Kharkov region.

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

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🔥 Yug Groups' mobile firing groups eliminate two Baba Yaga-type hexacopters and one Valkyrie reconnaissance drone of enemy

🎯 The servicemen organised round-the-clock protection of the positions from air strikes. To destroy the enemy's UAVs, the Russian units use mobile firing groups armed with automatic weapons and hunting rifles with optical sights and night vision devices.

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

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