June 22, 2025

Russian Ministry of Defense: up to 1,355 Ukrainian casualties in the past day

Russian Defense Ministry

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πŸ“Units of the Sever Group of Forces improved their position along the front line, hit clusters of manpower and hardware of five mechanised brigades, one air assault brigade, one air assault regiment, four assault regiments of the AFU, one territorial defence brigade, and the Chimera Special Operations Detachment of the Ukrainian Main Directorate of Intelligence close to Pavlovka, Andreyevka, Khoten, Zapselye, and Novaya Sech, Yablonovka, Bessalovka, Kondratovka, Sadky, and Ryzhevka (Sumy region).

β–ͺ️ The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 240 troops, three armored fighting vehicles, three motor vehicles, four field artillery guns, one electronic warfare station, and one materiel depot.

🚩 As a result of active and decisive actions of the Zapad Group of Forces’ units, Petrovskoye (Kharkov region) was liberated.

πŸ’₯ Units of the Zapad Group of Forces hit formations of two mechanised brigades of the AFU, one territorial defence brigade, and one border detachment of the Ukrainian State Border Guard Service near Gorokhovatka, Novaya Kruglyakovka, Peschanoye, Kupyansk (Kharkov region), and Kirovsk (Donetsk People’s Republic).

β–ͺ️The enemy lost up to 210 troops, one U.S.-made M113 armored personnel carrier, six pickup trucks, four electronic warfare stations, and three ammunition depots.

πŸ“ Units of the Yug Group of Forces have improved their tactical situation. Losses were inflicted on manpower and hardware of four mechanised brigades, one motorised infantry brigade, one mountain assault brigade, one assault brigade, and one airmobile brigade of the AFU, one territorial defence brigade, and the Azov Special Operations Brigade close to Seversk, Slavyansk, Kaleniki, Semyonovka, Belokuzminovka, Ilyinovka, Dyleyevka, Kramatorsk, Kleban-Byk, and Konstantinovka (Donetsk People’s Republic).

β–ͺ️The AFU losses were more than 140 troops, one armored fighting vehicle, one artillery gun, and five motor vehicles. Three ammunition depots and one material depot were destroyed.

πŸ“ Units of the Tsentr Group of Forces have taken advantageous positions. Formations of eight mechanised brigades, one mountain assault brigade, one assault brigade, two air assault brigades, one UAV brigade of the AFU, two marine brigades, and one national guard brigade were hit close to Petrovskogo, Dachnoye, Novopavlovka, Lenina, Krasnoarmeysk, and Novotoretskoye (Donetsk People’s Republic).

β–ͺ️The enemy’s losses amounted to more than 500 troops, two Kozak armored vehicles, three pickup trucks, and four field artillery guns, including one UK-made 155-mm AS-90 self-propelled artillery system.

Manpower and hardware of one mechanised brigade, one assault regiment of the AFU, and one marine brigade were hit near Novokhatskoye, Zeleny Gai, and Chervonaya Zirka (Donetsk People’s Republic).

β–ͺ️ The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost up to 195 troops, two armored fighting vehicles, five motor vehicles, and two artillery guns.

πŸ”₯Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces hit formations of one mechanised brigade, one coastal defence brigade of the AFU, and one territorial defence brigade close to Stepnogorsk, Kamenskoye, Malaya Tokmachka (Zaporozhye region), and Antonovka (Kherson region).

β–ͺ️Up to 70 troops, nine motor vehicles, four electronic warfare stations, three ammunition depots, and two material depots were eliminated.

✈️ Operational-Tactical Aviation, strike unmanned aerial vehicles, and Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces struck the infrastructure of a military airfield, workshops for the production and assembly of strike UAVs, UAV depots, ammunition and fuel depots as well as temporary deployment areas of AFU units and foreign mercenaries in 143 areas.

🎯 Air defence systems shot down six JDAM guided aerial bombs, two U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles as well as 164 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.

πŸ“Š In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the enemy lost:

πŸ”Ή 663 aircraft,

πŸ”Ή 283 helicopters, 

πŸ”Ή 64,846 unmanned aerial vehicles, 

πŸ”Ή 611 anti-aircraft missile systems, 

πŸ”Ή 24,006 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 

πŸ”Ή 1,572 MLRS combat vehicles, 

πŸ”Ή 26,486 field artillery guns and mortars, 

πŸ”Ή 37,138 units of support military vehicles have been neutralised.

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