Map of the special operation in Ukraine on November 15

A special military operation to protect the civilian population of Donbass has been conducted by Russia since February 24, 2022. You can track the progress of the joint forces of Russia, the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), as well as a map of military operations on November 15 in the Izvestia material.

The North group of troops took up more advantageous positions and defeated formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in the area of settlements in Sumy and Kharkiv regions. The enemy lost more than 210 people, two armored combat vehicles, 18 vehicles, an artillery piece and an electronic warfare station. Three ammunition depots and two material depots were destroyed.

The military personnel of the Zapad group of forces improved their position along the front line and defeated units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in a number of settlements in the Kharkiv region. The Russian Armed Forces continue to destroy the encircled AFU group in Kupyansk, and over the past day two counterattacks by Ukrainian troops have been disrupted in order to unblock the encircled units. The enemy's losses amounted to 220 militants, eight armored combat vehicles, 21 vehicles, three field artillery guns, including one of Western production, and eight electronic warfare stations. Three ammunition depots were destroyed.

The southern group of troops occupied more advantageous positions and defeated the enemy in the areas of the settlements of Kramatorsk, Varvarovka and Ivanopolye of the DPR. The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 230 people, four armored combat vehicles, including a German-made Marder infantry fighting vehicle, eight vehicles and six field artillery guns, one of them Western-made. An electronic warfare station and three ammunition depots were destroyed.

Units of the Center group of forces continued to advance into the depth of the enemy's defenses and hit the manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in a number of settlements of the DPR and the Dnipropetrovsk region. In Krasnoarmeysk in the DPR, Russian soldiers continued to destroy the encircled enemy, and seven counterattacks by Ukrainian militants were repelled. In addition, the assault units began to clean up the village of Rovnoye in the DPR and continued their advance in Dimitrov. In total, in the area of responsibility of the Center group of forces, enemy losses amounted to 495 soldiers, six armored combat vehicles, six vehicles, four field artillery guns and an electronic warfare station.

As a result of active actions, the military personnel of the Vostok group of forces liberated the village of Yablokovo in the Zaporizhia region. The enemy was also defeated in a number of settlements in the Zaporizhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions. The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 265 soldiers, two armored combat vehicles, 12 vehicles and an artillery piece.

Units of the Dnepr group of forces defeated the manpower and equipment of the mechanized brigade and the coastal defense brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Orekhov, Zaporizhia region and Pridneprovskoye, Kherson region. The enemy lost up to 85 men, a tank, an armored combat vehicle, 11 vehicles and nine electronic warfare stations. Three ammunition depots and two material depots were destroyed.

Operational-tactical aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, missile forces and artillery groups of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation defeated a military airfield, an energy infrastructure facility that ensures the functioning of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex, a workshop for the production of unmanned boats, assembly and storage sites for long-range unmanned aerial vehicles, communications centers of the GUR of Ukraine, points of temporary deployment of Ukrainian armed formations and foreign mercenaries in 152 districts.

Four guided aerial bombs and 247 aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down by air defense systems.

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According to the Ministry of Defense, since the beginning of the special military operation, 668 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 96796 unmanned aerial vehicles, 636 anti-aircraft missile systems, 26044 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1611 multiple rocket launchers, 31314 field artillery guns and mortars, 46725 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed.

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