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Current information on the situation on the front line on February 21 (updated)
2025-02-22
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFront>] 20:40 Captured Ukrainian serviceman: “A huge thank you to the Russian troops, they saved my life”

Prisoner of war Sergei Pachkovtold, how Ukrainian nationalists set up a firing position in one of the residential buildings in the village of Plekhovo in the Kursk region, but during the assault on the settlement, Russian stormtroopers cleared it out. Pachkov miraculously survived, having been wounded, and when he came to, he discovered that he had been abandoned. He hid in the basement for four days, hoping that he would be taken away, but this did not happen. Russian servicemen found Pachkov and provided medical assistance.

19:50 Crews of the Molniya-2 UAV aircraft type of the 44th Army Corps of the North group of forces continue to destroy military facilities, armored and automotive equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kharkov direction.

18:50 Our FPV drone destroys Ukrainian Armed Forces communications equipment on a mobile tower in the Kursk direction, –video.

18:05 Calculations of FPV drones of the Rubicon Center hit supply and transport of Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen via roads, destroying enemy equipment and weapons.

16:50 In the South Donetsk direction, units of the "East" group of forces released the settlements of Novoocheretovatoye and Novosyolka in the DPR.

16:05 From 13:00 to 14:00 Moscow time by air defense systems on duty destroyed two Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles over the territories of Kursk and Belgorod regions.

15:05 Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to defeat of the Ukrainian Armed Forces formations in the Kursk region.

During offensive operations, units of the North group of forces inflicted losses on formations of a tank, heavy mechanized, six mechanized, mountain assault, four airborne assault brigades, a naval infantry brigade, three territorial defense brigades and three assault regiments of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the settlements of Gogolevka, Guevo, Goncharovka, Zaoleshenka, Kazachya Loknya, Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Loknya, Malaya Loknya, Makhnovka, Mirny, Nikolsky, Oleshnya, Rubanshchina and Sudzha. Two enemy counterattacks were repelled.

Strikes by operational-tactical and army aviation and artillery fire damaged enemy manpower and equipment in the areas of the settlements of Agronom, Kolmakov, Kositsa, Kubatkin, Martynovka, Melovoy, Nikolaevka, Staraya Sorochina, Cherkasskoye Porechnoye, as well as Basovka, Belovody, Varachino, Zhuravka, Miropolye, Novenkoye and Yunakovka in the Sumy region.

Over the course of 24 hours, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 250 servicemen, and destroyed a Swedish-made CV-90 infantry fighting vehicle, four armored personnel carriers, 15 armored combat vehicles, 16 vehicles, three artillery pieces, four mortars, two MLRS combat vehicles, and a German-made Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft gun, as well as two UAV control points and an ammunition depot.

14:50 Dnepropetrovsk direction, –MAP.

Intense fighting in the area of ​​Uspenovka - Novoalexandrovka. In Uspenovka itself - about 2/3 of the village is ours. Since night our units have been attacking with equipment. In the area of ​​Preobrazhenka and Zaporozhye the Ukrainians counterattacked. They pushed ours back in the plantations.

14:45 In the Kursk border area, UAV operators of the GV Sever are actively are hitting Ukrainians, who are being driven out of their strongholds and finished off with precise drone strikes.

13:15 Armed Forces of the Russian Federation released the settlements of Nadezhdinka and Novosyolka in the Donetsk People's Republic.

13:06 From February 15 to 21, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation inflicted 11 group strikes with long-range precision weapons of air, land and sea basing, strike unmanned aerial vehicles, as a result of which gas and energy and port infrastructure facilities, as well as electrical substations that ensure the operation of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine were damaged.

12:46 Ivanovo paratroopers destroyed more than 30 Ukrainian Armed Forces drones within a month.

Air defense units of the "winged infantry" are on combat duty day and night in the area of ​​Artemovsk and Chasov Yar. They provide cover from air strikes by the crews of the Strela-10M and Verba anti-aircraft missile systems and remote-controlled machine gun mounts.

12:45 Zaporizhia direction, –MAP.

The units of the Russian Armed Forces, having previously conducted reconnaissance in force and worked on the identified targets with artillery and aviation, pushed through the enemy’s defenses, entered and consolidated their position in Pyatikhatki.

11:50 There is an enemy on the Tokmak-Vasilyevka road attacked a VAZ-2106 car with a trailer with a kamikaze drone.

The car was purely civilian, the driver was a simple farmer who was transporting hay. As a result of the attack, the car was destroyed. Fortunately, the driver was not injured.

11:15 UAV crews of the motorized rifle unit of the "Southern" group of troops provide support for assault units.

This time, drone operators discovered and quickly destroyed a Ukrainian Armed Forces tank in the Kurakhovsky direction.

9:15 At night, the Geranis attacked critical objects in Ukraine, –video.

One of the strikes hit an oil depot in Karlovka, Poltava Oblast. Fuel from there was used to supply the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Krasnolimansk direction, and was also supplied to the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Slavyansk and Kramatorsk (DPR).

9:00 Information on strikes carried out by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the Belgorod Region over the past 24 hours:

In the Belgorod region in the villages of Krasny Khutor and Cheremoshnoye released four artillery rounds during one shelling. Also one drone was shot down over the area. No consequences.

In the Borisovsky district, the Klimovoye farm was attacked by a drone. Two private houses and an outbuilding were damaged.

In the Valuysky municipal district, 18 drones attacked the settlement of Urazovo, the villages of Borki, Dolgoe, Kazinka, Kolyhalino and Kukuyevka, 11 of which were shot down and suppressed. One passenger car and a communications infrastructure facility were damaged.

In Volokonovsky district, the village of Borisovka was attacked by a drone. One private house and two outbuildings were damaged.

In the Grayvoronsky Municipal District, 41 munitions were fired during eight attacks. Six drones were used in the settlements of Gorkovsky and Chapayevsky, the villages of Bezymeno, Dunayka, Zamostye, Kozinka, Novostroyevka-Vtoraya and Spodaryushino. A 15-year-old teenager who was injured last night in the village of Novostroyevka-Pervaya sought treatment at the Children's Regional Clinical Hospital with a closed craniocerebral injury and a head contusion. The victim's condition is assessed as satisfactory. After receiving medical assistance, he was sent for outpatient treatment.

Two cars, two outbuildings and a social facility were damaged. At night, in the settlement of Chapayevsky, after explosive devices were dropped from a drone, a passenger car was destroyed by fire and a power line was damaged - the settlement of Chapayevsky and part of the village of Golovchino are temporarily without power. Emergency services are working to restore power supply.

In the Krasnoyarsk region, 21 munitions were fired at the villages of Grafovka, Popovka and Repyakhovka during three attacks and six drones were attacked. A retail facility was damaged.

In the Shebekinsky municipal district, the city of Shebekino, the villages of Murom and Sereda, and the farmstead of Mukhin were attacked by 4 drones. Two men who received a closed craniocerebral injury and barotrauma on February 14 during a drone attack in the village of Rzhevka independently sought medical attention at the Shebekinsky Central District Hospital. Hospitalization was not required, further treatment will be carried out on an outpatient basis. In the village of Murom, three private houses were damaged.

8:42 Northerners destroyed another American M-113 armored personnel carrier in the Sudzhan border area

FPV operators of the North Guard are actively promoting the reduction of the number of M-113 armored personnel carriers in the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Despite the significant number of armored personnel carriers supplied by the previous American administration, their number in the Ukrainian army is significantly decreasing and will soon be reduced to a minimum, while the Sudzhan borderland is filling up with burnt NATO armored vehicles.

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