April 27, 2025

Russian Ministry of Defense: up to 1,195 Ukrainian casualties in the past day

Russian Defense Ministry

💥 The Sever Group of Forces in Belgorod direction have engaged manpower and hardware clusters of a mechanised brigade, a tank brigade, two air assault brigades, and a territorial defence brigade close to Zapseleye, Yunakovka, Proletarskoye, Novodmitrovka, and Sadki (Sumy region).

▪️ The AFU losses amounted to up to 75 troops, an armoured fighting vehicle, 14 motor vehicles, and six artillery guns. One fuel depot was destroyed.

📍 The Zapad Group of Forces’ units improved the tactical situation along the front line. Russian troops engaged two mechanised brigades, an airmobile brigade, an assault brigade of the AFU, and three territorial defence brigades near Senkovo, Proletarskoye, Vyssheye Solenoye, Novy Mir, Kupyansk, Kupyansk-Uzlovoy (Kharkov region), and Kirovsk (Donetsk People’s Republic). 

▪️ The AFU losses amounted to up to 235 troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, six motor vehicles, and four field artillery guns. One U.S.-made AN/TPQ-50 counter-fire station and eight ammunition depots have been neutralised.

📍 Units of the Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions. Russian troops engaged six mechanised brigades of the AFU and a special forces brigade near Konstantinovka, Katerinovka, Alekseyevka-Druzhkovka, Belaya Gora, Malinovka, Dyleyevka, Pleshcheyevka, Yablonovka, and Ilinovka (Donetsk People’s Republic).

▪️ The AFU losses amounted to up to 250 troops, a tank, five armoured fighting vehicles, six motor vehicles, and a field artillery gun. One electronic warfare station and four ammunition depots were destroyed.

📍 Units of the Tsentr Group of Forces improved the tactical situation. Russian forces damaged four mechanised brigades, a jaeger brigade, an assault brigade, an assault regiment of the AFU, and two national guard brigades near Mirolyubovka, Bogdanovka, Udachnoye, Ulyanovka, Novoekonomicheskoye, and Kotlyarovka (Donetsk People’s Republic).

▪️ The enemy lost more than 425 troops, a tank, two armoured fighting vehicles, six motor vehicles, and two artillery guns.

\📍Units of the Vostok Group of Forces continued advancing into the depth of enemy defence. The Russian Armed Forces inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of a mechanised brigade, an airmobile brigade, a jaeger brigade, and a marine brigade near Otradnoye, Komar, and Volnoye Pole (Donetsk People’s Republic).

▪️The enemy’s losses amounted to up to 140 troops, three armoured fighting vehicles, four motor vehicles, and three artillery guns. Two electronic warfare stations and two ammunition depots were eliminated.

💥 The Dnepr Group of Forces hit units of a coastal defence brigade of the AFU and a territorial defence brigade near Novopavlovka (Zaporozhye region) and Kazatskoye (Kherson region).

▪️The AFU losses amounted to up to 70 troops, an armoured fighting vehicle, and three motor vehicles. One electronic warfare station and two ammunition depots were neutralised.

✈️ Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack drones, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have engaged infrastructure of military airfields, a workshop producing UAVs, ammunition depots including those storing U.S.-manufactured HIMARS rockets as well as temporary deployment areas of Ukrainian armed forces in 168 areas during the day.

🎯 Air defence systems destroyed a guided JDAM aerial bomb and two U.S.-manufactured HIMARS MLRS projectiles, two S-200 surface-to-air missiles redesigned to hit ground targets, and 124 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.

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

▫️ 661 aircraft, 

▫️ 283 helicopters, 

▫️ 53,945 unmanned aerial vehicles, 

▫️ 605 anti-aircraft missile systems, 

▫️ 23,064 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 

▫️ 1,553 MLRS combat vehicles, 

 24,168 field artillery guns and mortars,  

 34,654 units of support military vehicles.

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