March 23, 2025

Russian Ministry of Defense: up to 1,380 Ukrainian casualties in the past day

Russian Defense Ministry

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

💥 In Belgorod direction, units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted losses on formations of the UAV brigade of the AFU and territorial defence brigade near Maryino, Novodmitrovka, and Ugroyedy (Sumy region).

▪️ The AFU losses amounted to up to 60 troops, one tank, two armoured fighting vehicles, four motor vehicles, three artillery guns, and one electronic warfare station.

📍 Units of the Zapad Group of Forces improved the tactical situation. Losses were inflicted on manpower and hardware of two mechanised brigades, one mountain assault brigade, one tank brigade, one assault brigade of the AFU, and one territorial defence brigade near Kupyansk, Shiykovka, Zapadnoye (Kharkov region), Kirovsk, Novomikhaylovka (Donetsk People’s Republic), and Nadiya (Lugansk People’s Republic).

▪️ The AFU losses amounted to up to 230 troops, one tank, one U.S.-made M577 armoured personnel carrier and one U.S.-made HMMWV armoured fighting vehicle, seven motor vehicles, and six field artillery guns. One electronic warfare station, one U.S.-made AN/TPQ-48 counter-battery radar, and two ammunition depots were destroyed.

📍 Units of the Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions. Losses were inflicted on formations of six mechanised brigades, one motorised infantry brigade, one airmobile brigade of the AFU, one special operations brigade, and one territorial defence brigade near Tarasovka, Markovo, Novaya Poltavka, Aleksandropol, Shcherbinovka, Druzhba, Vasyukovka, Minkovka, Grigorovka, and Chasov Yar (Donetsk People’s Republic).

▪️The AFU losses amounted to more than 360 troops, one tank, two armoured fighting vehicles, ten motor vehicles, and one UK-made 155-mm FH-70 howitzer. One electronic warfare station, one electronic reconnaissance station, and two ammunition depots were destroyed.

🚩 As a result of active and decisive operations, units of the Tsentr Group of Forces liberated Sribnoye (Donetsk People’s Republic).

💥 Losses were inflicted on formations of three mechanised brigades, one jaeger brigade, four assault brigades, one assault regiment of the AFU, Vostok Special Operations Centre, and two national guard brigades near Mirolyubovka, Zverevo, Troitskoye, Krasnoarmeysk, Kotlino, Novopavlovka, Udachnoye, and Novosergeyevka (Donetsk People’s Republic).

▪️The AFU losses amounted to more than 500 troops, four armoured fighting vehicles, seven motor vehicles, two artillery guns, including one French-made 155-mm CAESAR self-propelled artillery system.

nits of the Vostok Group of Forces continued to advance into the depth of the enemy’s defences and inflicted losses on formations of one airmobile brigade, one jaeger brigade, one mountain assault brigade of the AFU, one marine brigade, and three territorial defence brigades near Komar, Otradnoye, Razliv, Novopol, Shevchenko (Donetsk People’s Republic), Gulai Pole, and Chervonoye (Zaporozhye region). 

▪️ The AFU losses amounted to up to 160 troops, nine motor vehicles, and three field artillery guns, including one Polish-made 155-mm Krab self-propelled artillery system.  One ammunition depot was destroyed. 

↗️ Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces improved the tactical situation along the front line and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of one mechanised brigade, one mountain assault brigade, three coastal defence brigades of the AFU, and one territorial defence brigade near Malaya Tokmachka, Kamenskoye (Zaporozhye region), Tokarevka, Ponyatovka, Sadovoye, and Antonovka (Kherson region).

▪️ The AFU losses amounted to up to 70 troops, three motor vehicles, two foreign-made artillery guns, two ammunition depots, and two electronic warfare stations.

🛫 Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack drones, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces delivered strikes at infrastructure objects of military airfields, UAV operator training centres, UAV depots and workshops, as well as engaged manpower and hardware clusters of AFU armed formations and foreign militants in 138 areas.

🔎 Air defence and electronic warfare units shot down 10 JDAM guided aerial bombs and three HIMARS MLRS made by the USA, as well as 224 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.

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

▫️ 659 aircraft,

▫️ 283 helicopters,

▫️ 48,085 unmanned aerial vehicles,

▫️ 601 anti-aircraft missile systems,

▫️ 22,450 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles,

▫️ 1,530 MLRS combat vehicles,

▫️ 22,926 field artillery guns and mortars,

▫️ 33,282 units of support military vehicles.

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