Russian Defence Ministry on progress of special military operation as of 18 December 2025
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
Units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted losses on units of one jaeger brigade of the AFU and one national guard regiment near Alekseyevka, Ryzhevka, Varachino, and Shostka (Sumy region).
In Kharkov direction, units of two mechanised brigades of the AFU and one territorial defence brigade have been hit near Prilipka, Vilcha, Stary Saltov, Veliky Burluk, and Volchanskiye Khutora (Kharkov region).
The enemy lost up to 150 troops, an armoured fighting vehicle, eight motor vehicles, two artillery guns, two electronic warfare stations, and an Israeli-made RADA radar station.
The Zapad Group’s units inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of one mechanised brigade, one assault brigade of the AFU and one national guard brigade near Blagodatovka, Podoly, Kovsharovka, Boguslavka, Kupyansk-Uzlovoy, Nechvolodovka (Kharkov region) and Krasny Liman (Donetsk People’s Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 200 troops, one U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carrier, two Turkish-made Cobra armoured fighting vehicles, 13 motor vehicles, two electronic warfare stations, and two ammunition depots.
The Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions. Strikes were delivered at formations of two mechanised brigades, one airmobile brigade, two mountain assault brigades of the AFU, one marine brigade, and one national guard brigade have been hit close to Reznikovka, Zakotnoye, Kirovo, Minkovka, Konstantinovka, and Kramatorsk (Donetsk People’s Republic).
The enemy has lost more than 195 troops, four armoured fighting vehicles, 14 motor vehicles, three field artillery guns, including two U.S.-made 155-mm M777 howitzers, two electronic warfare stations, and three ammunition depots.
The Tsentr Group’s units continued to neutralise the encircled AFU formations in Vostochny and Zapadny districts of Dimitrov (Donetsk People’s Republic). Russian troops are mopping up the AFU scattered groups in the settlements of Rodinskoye and Svetloye (Donetsk People’s Republic).
️ Attempts of the AFU assault groups to break through forest belts from the direction of Shevchenko to the northern outskirts of Krasnoarmeysk in the Donetsk People’s Republic were thwarted. In addition, 42 militants and 14 pieces of military hardware were neutralised.
Russian troops engaged manpower and hardware of one mechanised brigade, one airmobile brigade, one infantry brigade, one air assault brigade, two assault regiments of the AFU, one marine brigade, two national guard brigades, and one Azov Special Operations Brigade close to Kutuzovka, Sergeyevka, Grishino, Volnoye, Toretskoye, Belitskoye (Donetsk People’s Republic), Novopavlovka, and Novopodgorodnoye (Dnepropetrovsk region).
The enemy losses amounted to more than 545 troops, five armoured fighting vehicles, 10 motor vehicles, and two artillery guns.
assault brigade, two assault regiments of the AFU, and one territorial defence brigade have been hit close to Andreyevka, Gavrilovka (Dnepropetrovsk region), Gulyaypole, and Kosovtsevo (Zaporozhye region).
Up to 245 troops, four armoured fighting vehicles, 12 motor vehicles, and three materiel depots have been neutralised.
Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted fire damage on units of one mountain assault brigade and one coastal defence brigade of the AFU close to Tyaginka, Nikolskoye and Dneprovskoye (Kherson region).
Up to 70 troops, 21 motor vehicles, two field artillery guns, including one U.S.-made 155-mm M777 howitzer, and two materiel 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 energy infrastructure in the interests of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, long-range attack drone teams and storage areas, as well as temporary deployment areas of Ukrainian armed groups and foreign mercenaries in 149 areas.
Air defence systems shot down 216 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the enemy has lost:
669 aircraft,
283 helicopters,
103,758 unmanned aerial vehicles,
640 anti-aircraft missile systems,
26,591 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles,
1,633 MLRS combat vehicles,
31,994 field artillery guns and mortars,
49,358 support military vehicles.