War Reports - 2025-01-19 - Main Report

🇷🇺 AFU reinforced positions break under pressure of Russian troops

Assault detachments of the Vostok Group of Forces liberated (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/18946) Vremevka of the DPR.

In Vremevka, servicemen from the Russian Far East mopped up about 600 buildings and installations destroying prepared reinforced positions of the 110th Mechanised Brigade of the AFU.

The State colour of the Russian Federation is mounted on one of the buildings at the Partizanskaya Street.

The key to the confident advance of the Vostok Group of Forces near Neskuchnoye and Vremevka were competent command and control, selfless, coordinated and cohesive work of assault groups, artillery crews, FPV drones, and unmanned aerial vehicles.

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

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Russian serviceman's bravery causes elimination of AFU assault detachment

Near Glubokoye of Kharkov region, scouts of the Sever Group of Forces detected an assault detachment of the AFU that concealed in the basement of a building.

Three servicemen of the 11th Army Corps (Sever Group of Forces) were in the vicinity of the assault detachment.

At a right moment, a serviceman approached in silence the house and dropped a backpack with anti-tank mines into the building blowing up the AFU militants.

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

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⚡️ Russian Defence Ministry reports on the progress of the special military operation (18 January 2025)

▫️This morning, in response to the fire of U.S.-made ATACMS operational-tactical missiles on civilian infrastructure in Belgorod region, the Russian Armed Forces carried out a group high-precision strike against the Ukrainian defence industry facilities, including the Luch design bureau, which is designing and manufacturing Neptune long-range guided missiles and Olkha MLRS rockets. All objectives achieved, targets engaged.

▫️In Kharkov direction, the Sever Group of Forces hit formations of a motorised infantry brigade and a national guard brigades close to Volchansk and Glubokoye (Kharkov region).

The AFU lost up to 30 men, two motor vehicles, and three field artillery guns.

▫️Units of the Zapad Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions. Russian units hit manpower and hardware of two airmobile brigades and an air assault regiment of the AFU close to Lozovaya and Zagryzovo (Kharkov region).

The AFU losses amounted to up to 470 troops, a tank, two armoured fighting vehicles, including a U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carrier, five motor vehicles, and eight field artillery guns, including two manufactured by NATO states. One ammunition depot was wiped out.

▫️The Yug Group of Forces improved the tactical position. Russian troops hit formations of three mechanised brigades, an airmobile brigade, and an assault brigade of the AFU near Seversk, Novodmitrovka, Chasov Yar, Dachnoye, and Konstantinovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.

The AFU losses amounted to more then 245 troops and four motor vehicles. One ammunition depot was wiped out.

▫️As a result of the successful offensive, the Tsentr Group of Forces units liberated Petropavlovka (Donetsk People's Republic).

Russian forces engaged manpower and materiel of seven mechanised brigades of the AFU near Petrovka, Dzerzhinsk, Solenoye, Petropavlovka, Peschanoye, Novovasilyevka, and Slavyanka of the Donetsk People's Republic.

The enemy lost up up to 585 troops, three armoured fighting vehicles, four motor vehicles, and four artillery guns.

▫️The Vostok Group of Forces' units continued advancing to the depths of the enemy's defence and liberated Vremevka (Donetsk People's Republic).

Russian units hit a mechanised brigade and an air assault brigade near Konstantinopol and Velikaya Novoselka of the Donetsk People's Republic.

The AFU losses amounted to up to 135 troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, three motor vehicles, and five foreign-made field artillery guns. One ammunition depot was wiped out.

▫️The units of the Dnepr Group of Forces have engaged the manpower and hardware of the two marine brigades close to Antonovka and Kazatskoye (Kherson region).

The enemy lost up to 65 troops, eight motor vehicles, a field artillery gun, and a Bukovel-AD electronic warfare station.

▫️Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack drones, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have engaged the infrastructure of military airfields, the production and assembly plant of unmanned aerial vehicles as well as clusters of enemy manpower and hardware in 156 areas.

▫️Air defence units shot down 83 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.

▫️In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 652 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 40,726 unmanned aerial vehicles, 590 anti-aircraft missile systems, 20,658 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,510 MLRS combat vehicles, 20,764 field artillery guns and mortars, and 30,459 units of support military vehicles have been neutralised.

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

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⚡️ Russian Defence Ministry reports on repelling AFU attempt to invade Russian territory in Kursk region (18 January 2025)

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the operation to neutralise an enemy group, which broke into the territory of Kursk region.

▫️The Sever Group of Forces engaged formations of one tank brigade, a heavy mechanised brigade, four mechanised brigades, two air assault brigades, a marine brigade, and three territorial defence brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine close to Guyevo, Lebedevka, Malaya Loknya, Makhnovka, Nikolayevo-Daryino, Novaya Sorochina, Pogrebki, Sverdlikovo, Sudzha, and Cherkasskoye Porechnoye. One AFU counter-attack was repelled.

▫️Operational-Tactical and Army aviation and artillery strikes engaged AFU manpower and hardware near Viktorovka, Zaoleshenka, Kositsa, Kruglenkoye, Kubatkin, Kurilovka, Loknya, Martynovka, Melovoy, Nikolsky as well as Basovka, Belovody, Veselovka, Vodolagi, Zhuravka, and Miropolye in Sumy region.

▫️Over the past 24 hours, the AFU losses amounted to over 210 troops, five armoured fighting vehicles, nine motor vehicles, an artillery gun, two mortars, an ammunition depot, and a UAV command post.

▫️Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the AFU losses amounted to more than 52,660 troops, 304 tanks, 231 infantry fighting vehicles, 174 armoured personnel carriers, 1,567 armoured fighting vehicles, 1,502 motor vehicles, 372 artillery guns, 44 MLRS launchers, including 13 of HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the USA, 16 anti-aircraft missile launchers, eight transport-loading vehicles, 93 EW stations, 14 counter-battery warfare radars, four air defence radars, 30 units of engineering and other materiel, including 13 counterobstacle vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, eight 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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