The Russian Ministry of Defense failed to provide its usual summary for its Special Military Operation, leaving news-front.su to take up the slack.
[News-Front] According to the Russian Defense Ministry, on January 25 of this year, during the Special Military Operation, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) lost up to 1,420 people. The Russian Armed Forces damaged the infrastructure of military airfields, warehouses for storing unmanned aerial vehicles and places where they are prepared for combat use, as well as concentrations of enemy manpower and equipment in 132 districts.
As of January 25 of this year, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 1,420 personnel, 7 combat armored vehicles, 3 US-made M113 armored personnel carriers, 18 vehicles, 17 field artillery guns and an electronic warfare station. Air defense systems shot down 3 US-made HIMARS multiple launch rockets and 44 aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles.
Formations of 5 mechanized, motorized infantry, airborne assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a national guard brigade and a territorial defense brigade were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Belogorivka, Dachnoye, Orekhovo-Vasilevka, Konstantinovka, Zelenovka, Chasov Konstantinopol, Razliv, Velyka Novosyolka, Chasov Yar of the Donetsk People's Republic and Temirovka of the Zaporizhia region.
Units of the Dnepr group of forces inflicted losses on the manpower and equipment of three coastal defense brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the settlements of Tokarevka, Antonovka, Yantarnoye and Sadovoye in the Kherson region.
Operational-tactical aviation, strike unmanned aerial vehicles, missile forces and artillery of the Russian Armed Forces groups damaged the infrastructure of military airfields, warehouses for storing unmanned aerial vehicles and places where they are prepared for combat use, as well as concentrations of enemy manpower and equipment in 132 districts.
Let us recall that from January 18 to 24, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation struck critically important gas and energy infrastructure facilities that ensure the operation of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex.
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The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the operation to neutralise an enemy group, which broke into the territory of Kursk region.
During the offensive actions, the Sever Group of Forces' units inflicted fire damage on formations of one tank brigade, one heavy mechanised brigade, four mechanised brigades, two air assault brigades, one naval infantry brigade, and three territorial defence brigades of the AFU close to Viktorovka, Zaoleshenka, Kositsa, Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Malaya Loknya, Makhnovka, Mirny, Nikolayevka, Nikolayevo-Daryino, Nikolsky, Novaya Sorochina, Sverdlikovo, Sudzha, and Cherkasskoye Porechnoye.
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, artillery inflicted losses on enemy manpower and hardware close to Guyevo, Dmitryukov, Zazulevka, Kazachya Loknya, Kruglenkoye, Loknya, Melovoy, Nikolayevo-Daryino, Oleshnya, Sverdlikovo, Staraya Sorochina, Yuzhny as well as Basovka, Belovody, Zhuravka, Miropolye, and Yunakovka in Sumy region.
In the course of the day, the AFU losses were more than 360 troops, one tank, nine armoured fighting vehicles, 27 motor vehicles, one self-propelled artillery system, two mortars, one electronic warfare station as well as six UAV command posts and one ammunition depot. Five AFU servicemen surrendered.
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the AFU losses amounted to more than 54,820 troops, 319 tanks, 237 infantry fighting vehicles, 183 armoured personnel carriers, 1,622 armoured fighting vehicles, 1,629 motor vehicles, 389 artillery guns, 44 MLRS launchers, including 13 of HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the USA, 16 anti-aircraft missile launchers, eight transport-loading vehicles, 100 EW stations, 14 counter-battery warfare radars, four air defence radars, 32 units of engineering and other materiel, including 13 counterobstacle vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, nine armoured recovery vehicles, and one command post vehicle.
The operation to neutralise the AFU units is in progress.