December 20, 2025

Russian MoD: up to 1,555 Ukrainian casualties in the last day

Russian Defense Ministry

πŸͺ– The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.

🚩 As a result of resolute actions, units of the Sever Group of Forces liberated Vysokoye in Sumy region.

πŸ’₯ The Group’s units inflicted losses on the formations of one jaeger brigade of the AFU and two territorial defence brigades near Alekseyevka, Iskriskovshchina, Nikolskoye, Ryzhevka, and Khoten (Sumy region).

πŸ”₯ In Kharkov direction, units of two mechanised and motorised infantry brigades of the AFU have been hit near Staritsa, Ternovaya, Izbitskoye, and Volchanskiye Khutora (Kharkov region).

β–ͺ️ The AFU losses amounted to up to 200 troops, one armoured fighting vehicle, 15 motor vehicles, and one artillery gun. One electronic warfare station and five ammunition and materiel depots were neutralised.

πŸ“ The Zapad Group of Forces improved the situation along the front line. Strikes were delivered at manpower and hardware of four mechanised brigades, one air assault brigade of the AFU and one national guard brigade near Kovsharovka, Kupyansk-Uzlovoy, Monachinovka, Parnovatoye, Samborovka (Kharkov region), and Krasny Liman (Donetsk People’s Republic).

β–ͺ️ The AFU losses amounted to more than 240 troops, one tank, two armoured fighting vehicles, 24 motor vehicles, and two field artillery guns, including one U.S.-made 155-mm Paladin self-propelled artillery system. One electronic warfare station and 10 ammunition depots were neutralised.

πŸ“ The Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions. Russian troops hit three mechanised brigades, one airmobile brigade, one mountain assault brigade of the AFU, one marine brigade, and one national guard brigade near Kirovo, Konstantinovka, Kramatorsk, Krivaya Luka, and Minkovka (Donetsk People’s Republic). 

β–ͺ️ The AFU losses amounted to more than 265 troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, 20 motor vehicles, and one artillery gun. One U.S.-made AN/TPQ-48 counter-fire radar, one electronic warfare station, and four material depots were neutralised.

🚩 The Tsentr Group’s units liberated Svetloye in the Donetsk People’s Republic and continued to neutralise the encircled enemy formations in Dimitrov in the Donetsk People’s Republic.

πŸ’₯ Strikes were delivered at manpower and hardware of three mechanised brigades, two jaeger brigade, one air assault brigade, two assault regiments of the AFU, two marine brigades, one territorial defence brigade, and three national guard brigades close to Vodyanskoye, Volnoye, Gruzskoye, Zavido-Kudashevo, Novoaleksandrovka, Novokrivorozhye, and Samarskoye (Donetsk People’s Republic).

β–ͺ️ The enemy losses amounted to up to 525 troops, five armoured fighting vehicles, including one U.S.-made Stryker armoured personnel carrier, 14 motor vehicles, three field artillery guns, and one electronic warfare station.

mechanised brigade, one assault brigade, two assault regiments of the AFU, and one territorial defence brigade close to Andreyevka, Velikomikhaylovka (Dnepropetrovsk region), Gulyaypole, Kosovtsevo, and Ternovatoye (Zaporozhye region).

β–ͺ️ The AFU losses amounted to over 260 troops, one armoured fighting vehicle, and 10 motor vehicles.

πŸ’₯ The Dnepr Group of Forces engaged formations of one mechanised brigade, two coastal defence brigades of the AFU, and one territorial defence brigade near Orekhov, Razumovka (Zaporozhye region), Nikolskoye, and Tyaginka (Kherson region).

β–ͺ️ Up to 65 troops, one armoured fighting vehicle, 16motor vehicles, two electronic warfare stations, one ammunition depot, and two fuel depots have been destroyed.

✈️ Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack drones, missile troops, and artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have inflicted damage on the Ukrainian military industry enterprise, energy facilities, transport and storage infrastructure used in the interests of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, military hardware convoys, assembly, storage, and launch areas of long-range unmanned aerial vehicles, as well as temporary deployment areas of Ukrainian armed formations and foreign mercenaries in 152 areas.

🎯 Air defence systems shot down four HIMARS MLRS projectiles, one Neptune long-range missile, and 118 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.

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

 669 aircraft, 

 283 helicopters, 

 103,985 unmanned aerial vehicles, 

 640 anti-aircraft missile systems, 

 26,619 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 

 1,633 MLRS combat vehicles, 

 32,038 field artillery guns and mortars, 

 49,546 support military vehicles. 

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