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2025-02-21 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Current information on the situation on the front line on February 20 (update)
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFront] 23:57 Official summary of the Office for Documentation of War Crimes of Ukraine from 00:00 20.02.2025 to 00:00 21.02.2025.

A total of 31 facts of armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

There were reports of three civilians being injured.

DAMAGED:
Six residential buildings,
Four cars,
Seven civil infrastructure facilities.

A total of 31 armed attacks in the Gorlovka direction.

A total of 98 units of various ammunition were fired.

19:30 Kupyansk direction: Advancement of Russian troops and pressure on the defense of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, –MAP.

The units of the Russian Armed Forces continue their offensive, consolidating their positions on the approaches to Kondrashovka and developing combat operations in the direction of Tischenkovka and Radkovka. These settlements are of strategic importance for control over the adjacent communications that provide supplies to the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Kupyansk.

Units of the 1431st Motorized Rifle Regiment of the Russian Armed Forces suppressed the resistance of Ukrainian forces in the area of ​​a fortified stronghold west of Orlyanskoye. This area was of tactical importance, as it allowed the Ukrainian Armed Forces to control the approaches to a number of positions. As a result, Russian troops occupied more advantageous positions, which increases the pressure on the enemy's defense.

18:20 Defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is pouring down under pressure from Sakhalin attack aircraft

In the SVO zone, servicemen of the assault group captured four strongholds of the Ukrainian Armed Forces during an active offensive in the South Donetsk direction.

17:35 Chasovoyarsk direction: Russian flags in Grigorovka situation as of 16:00 February 20, 2025

On the northern flank of the Chasovoyarsk direction appeared evidence of the advance of the Russian Armed Forces in the Grigorovka area – MAP.

16:40 An FPV drone crew from the North group of forces destroyed a CV90 infantry fighting vehicle of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kharkiv region, –video.

16:22 Development of offensive actions near the settlement of Sverdlikovo

Today, the airborne assault units of the 106th Tula Airbrone Division overcame about 1.5 km from the north-eastern outskirts of Sverdlikovo to Lebedevka, having advanced along the Loknya River and taken a height of 177 m, with access to the streets of Dyakovka and Zagrebelye. Fire contact with the formations of the 116th Territorial Defense Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is also observed in Lebedevka itself.

15:05 The Ukrainian Armed Forces' combat armored vehicle was destroyed using the Lancet loitering munition in the border area of ​​the Kursk region.

13:25 UAV operators of the NBC protection units and special forces of the 29th Guards Army of the Vostok group are working against enemy strongholds and military equipment in the South Donetsk direction.

12:50 Tonight the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation inflicted a group strike with high-precision long-range air, sea and land-based weapons, as well as unmanned aerial vehicles, against gas and energy infrastructure facilities that support the operation of Ukraine's military-industrial complex. The strike's objective has been achieved. All facilities have been hit.

12:15 Crew of TOS-1A "Solntsepek" incinerated fortified positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces

In the Sudzhansky district of the Kursk region, crews of the heavy flamethrower systems "Solntsepek" of the Tula Guards Airborne Unit carry out daily fire missions to destroy fortified long-term strongholds, positions and dugouts with enemy manpower.

10:50 Operators of attack drones destroyed an armored vehicle of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Ugledar direction, –video.

10:32 Security forces prevented a terrorist attack by Ukrainian special services in Saratov region — UFSB

A Russian citizen, he was recruited in 2024 in Ukraine and underwent special training in Kyiv.

On instructions from his supervisor, he took an explosive device with striking elements from a previously prepared hiding place in order to blow up the car of a Saratov official

During the arrest, the saboteur resisted by opening fire, but was neutralized by return fire.

9:55 A reconnaissance UAV was in a forest plantation in the Kursk region discovered a dugout with two Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers. FPV operators of the naval infantry "North" decided to strike the target with a kamikaze drone on fiber optics.

9:05 The 152mm Msta-S cannon destroyed an enemy drone control point and a military vehicle on the right bank of the Kherson region, –video.

8:10 Frontline report for the morning of 20.02.2025

Zaporizhzhya Front. An attempt of counterattack of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Kamenskoye is reported. The approaching enemy forces were destroyed, –MAP.

Donetsk Front. Russian troops continue to develop the offensive in the Novoselka area. There are also tactical successes in the Constantinople area, where the Russian Armed Forces have secured the outskirts of the settlement and continue to develop the offensive on the flanks,

Chasov Yar direction. Russian troops continue to put pressure on the enemy's defense in Chasov Yar and develop an offensive on the flanks. Tactical successes of our troops in the direction of Kurdyumovka are reported.

Kursk region. Heavy fighting continues in Pogrebki. Also, the Russian Armed Forces are putting pressure on the Ukrainian Armed Forces defense in the Sverdlikovo area. It is reported that our troops are advancing in one of the areas on the territory of the Sumy region.

7:05 During the past night, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed four Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles:

three UAVs over the territory of the Republic of Crimea and
one UAV over the territory of the Bryansk region.



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