December 21, 2025

Russian Ministry of Defense:  up to 1,285 Ukrainian casualties in the last day

Russian Defense Ministry

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

📍Units of the Sever Group of Forces improved the tactical situation. Russian troops hit formations of one AFU jaeger brigade close to Ryzhevka and Alekseyevka in Sumy region.

💥 In Kharkov direction, Russian troops inflicted fire damage on units of one motorised infantry brigade and three mechanised brigades near Krasnoyarskoye, Ternovoye, and Volchanskiye Khutora (Kharkov region).

▪️ The AFU losses were up to 120 troops and nine motor vehicles.

📍Units of the Zapad Group of Forces improved the situation along the front line. Russian troops defeated manpower and hardware of one airmobile brigade, two assault brigades, four mechanised brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and two National Guard brigades near Podoly, Kupyansk-Uzlovoy, Lesnaya Stenkw, Kovsharovka, Boldyrevka, Monachinovka (Kharkov region), and Krasny Liman (Donetsk People’s Republic).

▪️ The enemy losses were up to 210 troops, one T-72 tank, one infantry fighting vehicle, one U.S.-made HMMWV armoured vehicle made, one Canadian-made Senator armoured personnel carrier, 14 motor vehicles, and two field artillery guns. Three ammunition depots were destroyed.

📍Units of the Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous positions. Russian troops launched formations of one engineering brigade, one mountain assault brigade, and three mechanised brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine close to Kramatorsk, Druzhkovka, Zakotnoye, Konstantinovka, Nikolayevka, and Minkovka of the Donetsk People’s Republic.

▪️ The enemy losses were up to 215 troops, one M113 armoured personnel carrier, and one U.S.-made Stryker armoured vehicle, 11 motor vehicles, two artillery systems, and one Croatian-made RAK-SA-12 MLRS launcher. In addition, one electronic warfare station, three ammunition depots and one fuel depot were destroyed.

🪖Units of the Tsentr Group of Forces continued the neutralisation of an encircled enemy group in Dimitrov (Donetsk People’s Republic), and mopping up of Rodinskoye (Donetsk People’s Republic) from scattered formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

💥 Russian troops defeated manpower and hardware of one jaeger brigade, one airmobile brigade, one airborne brigade, two mechanised brigades, two air assault brigades, two assault regiments of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, one marine brigade, one territorial defence brigade, the Azov Special Forces Brigades, and onr National Guard brigade near Verovka, Annovka, Sergeyevka, Artemovka, Toretskoye, Belitskoye, Rodinskoye, Novoaleksandrovka (Donetsk People’s Republic), and Novopavlovka (Dnepropetrovsk region).

▪️ The enemy losses were more than 455 troops, U.S.-made Abrams and German-made Leopard tanks, two armoured fighting vehicles, four pickup trucks, one field artillery system, and one electronic reconnaissance station.

Units of the Vostok Group of Forces continued to advance into the depth of enemy defences. Russian troops hit manpower and hardware of one assault brigade, four assault regiments of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, one marine brigade, and one territorial defence brigade near Gai, Andreyevka (Dnepropetrovsk region), Ternovatoe, Dorozhnyanka, and Gulyai-Pole (Zaporozhye region).

▪️ The AFU losses were over 245 troops, six armoured fighting vehicles, six motor vehicles, and one U.S.-made 155-mm M198 howitzer. In addition, one material depot was destroyed.

💥 Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces defeated formations of one mechanised brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and one territorial defence brigade near Orekhov and Preobrazhenka (Zaporozhye region).

▪️ The enemy losses were up to 40 Ukrainian troops, one tank, one armoured fighting vehicle, five motor vehicles, two field artillery guns including one U.S.-made 105-mm M119 gun, two electronic warfare stations, and one Israeli-made RADA radar station.

✈️ Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack unmanned aerial vehicles, missile troops, and artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation inflicted fire damage on enterprises of the defence industry of Ukraine, power facilities, transport and storage infrastructure that supported the Armed Forces of Ukraine, assembly sites for long-range unmanned aerial vehicles as well as temporary deployment areas of the AFU and foreign mercenaries in 144 areas .

🎯 Air defence systems hit 29 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles .

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

 669 aircraft, 

 283 helicopters, 

 104,014 unmanned aerial vehicles, 

 640 anti-aircraft missile systems, 

 26,637 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 

 1,634 MLRS combat vehicles, 

 32,062 field artillery guns and mortars, 

 49,684 support military vehicles.

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