March 18, 2025

Russian Ministry of Defense:  Up to 895 Ukrainian casualties in the past day

Russian Defense Ministry

💥 In Kharkov direction, the Sever Group of Forces inflicted fire damage on formations of a mechanised brigade of the AFU close to Volchansk (Kharkov region).

▪️The AFU losses amounted to more than 35 troops, four motor vehicles, and a field artillery gun. One electronic warfare station was eliminated.

📍Units of the Zapad Group of Forces improved the tactical situation. Russian units engaged three mechanised brigades, an assault brigade of the AFU, and a territorial defence brigade close to Malaya Shapkovka, Monachinovka, Radkovka, Shiykovka, and Proletarskoye (Kharkov region).

▪️The enemy’s losses amounted to up to 205 troops, three armoured fighting vehicles including a U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carrier, five pick-up trucks, four artillery guns including two NATO-manufactured, an ammunition depot, and three electronic warfare stations.

📍Units of the Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions. Russian troops hit a mechanised brigade, an infantry brigade, and an airmobile brigade near Seversk, Shcherbinovka, and Ivanopolye (Donetsk People’s Republic). 

▪️The AFU losses amounted to more than 200 troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, and three motor vehicles.

↗️ Units of the Tsentr Group of Forces continued advancing into the depth of enemy defence. Russian troops hit three mechanised brigades, an assault brigade of the AFU, a marine brigade, and a national guard brigade close to Krasnoarmeysk, Mirolyubovka, Novoaleksandrovka, Udachnoye, Uspenovka, Dimitrov, and Shevchenko (Donetsk People’s Republic).

▪️The enemy lost more than 440 troops, four armoured fighting vehicles including two U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carriers, six motor vehicles, and three artillery guns.

d an airmobile brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and a territorial defence brigade close to Bogatyr, Komar, and Otradnoye (Donetsk People’s Republic).

▪️The AFU losses amounted to more than 145 troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, two motor vehicles, five field artillery guns including a U.S.-made 155-mm Paladin and a Polish-made Krab self-propelled artillery systems.

💥 The Dnepr Group of Forces engaged manpower and hardware of two coastal defence brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine close to Novodanilovka, Kamenskoye (Zaporozhye region), and Tokarevka (Kherson region).

▪️Up to 70 troops, three motor vehicles, and one ammunition depot have been neutralised.

🛫 Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack drones, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have engaged the oil industry facilities supplying the AFU, military airfield infrastructure, storage and launching sites of unmanned aerial vehicles as well as clusters of AFU manpower and hardware in 146 areas during the day.

📶 Air defence systems shot down five JDAM guided bombs, a U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectile, and 117 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.

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

▫️658 aircraft, 

▫️283 helicopters, 

▫️47,211 unmanned aerial vehicles, 

▫️601 anti-aircraft missile systems, 

▫️22,314 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 

▫️1,529 MLRS combat vehicles, 

▫️22,638 field artillery guns and mortars, 

▫️33,012 units of support military vehicles.

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