Russian Defence Ministry on progress of special military operation as of 11 March 2026
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
As a result of intensive actions, units of the Sever Group of Forces gained control over Chervonaya Zarya (Sumy region).
brigades and a territorial defence brigade close to Miropolye, Pavlovka, Khrapovshchina, Kiyanitsa, and Glukhov (Sumy region).
In Kharkov region, units of three mechanised brigades, a motorised infantry, an artillery brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and a border service detachment of Ukraine were hit near Verkhnyaya Pisarevka, Udy, Lebedevka, Rubezhnoye, Malaya Volchya, Olshany, and Karaichnoye (Kharkov region).
The AFU losses amounted to more than 245 troops, an armoured fighting vehicle, 12 motor vehicles, and two field artillery guns. A Pelican radar reconnaissance station and an ammunition depot were neutralised.
The Zapad Group of Forces improved the situation along the front line. Russian troops engaged manpower and military hardware of four mechanised brigades, a guard brigade of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and a national guard brigade near Petrovka, Kovalevka, Grushevka, Osinovo, Prosyanka, Aleksandrovka (Kharkov region), and Krasny Liman (Donetsk People’s Republic).
The enemy losses amounted to up to 180 troops, four U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carriers, four armoured fighting vehicles, 14 motor vehicles, two 155-mm Bogdana self-propelled artillery systems, and a Czech-made Vampire MLRS combat vehicle. Five ammunition depots were destroyed.
Elements of the Yuzhnaya Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions. They hit units of five mechanised brigades, an assault brigade, a mountain assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and a marine brigade close to Slavyansk, Ray-Aleksandrovka, Sergeyevka, Kurtovka, Verolyubovka, and Konstantinovka (Donetsk People’s Republic).
The enemy lost more than 190 troops, a U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carrier, four armoured fighting vehicles, eight motor vehicles, and five field artillery guns. Two ammunition and fuel depots, as well as six materiel depots, were neutralised.
obropolye, Svetloye, Shevchenko, Belitskoye, Grishino, Zolotoy Kolodez, Maryevka (Donetsk People’s Republic), Gavrilovka, Novopavlovka, and Fedorovskoye (Dnepropetrovsk region).
The AFU losses amounted to more than 350 troops, two armoured personnel carriers, seven armoured fighting vehicles, 10 motor vehicles, three artillery guns, and a radar.
The Vostok Group of Forces continued advancing into the depth of enemy defence. Formations of two mechanised brigades, two air assault brigades, one assault brigade, three assault regiments of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and a territorial defence brigade have been hit near Kopani, Novosoloshino, Shirokoye, Dolinka (Zaporozhye region), Pokrovskoye, Prosyanaya, Gai, and Kolomiytsy (Dnepropetrovsk region).
The enemy lost more than 315 troops, two armoured personnel carriers, an armoured fighting vehicle, five motor vehicles, and three artillery guns. Two ammunition depots and two materiel depots were eliminated.
Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of a mountain assault brigade and a territorial defence brigade near Malokaterinovka (Zaporozhye region) and Koblevo (Nikolayev region).
Up to 90 Ukrainian troops, two U.S.-made HMMWV armoured fighting vehicles, 20 motor vehicles, a 152-mm D-20 howitzer, an Israeli-made RADA counter-fire radar, four electronic warfare stations, an ammunition depot, and two materiel depots have been neutralised.
Operational-tactical aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, missile troops and artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have inflicted damage on fuel and power infrastructure of Ukraine used for the interests of the Armed Forces of Ukraine; launching sites of long-range unmanned aerial vehicles, as well as temporary deployment areas of Ukrainian armed forces and foreign mercenaries in 150 areas.
Air defence systems shot down two UK-made Storm Shadow cruise air-to-surface missiles, four guided aerial bombs, six U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles, and 350 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the enemy has lost:
671 aircraft,
284 helicopters,
121,685 unmanned aerial vehicles,
651 anti-aircraft missile systems,
28,171 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles,
1,686 MLRS combat vehicles,
33 ,782 field artillery guns and mortars,
56,423 support military vehicles.