Map of the special operation in Ukraine on November 25

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 25 in the Izvestia material.

In response to Ukraine's terrorist attacks on civilian targets in Russia, the Russian Armed Forces launched a massive strike tonight with high-precision long-range land, sea and air-based weapons, including Kinzhal hypersonic aeroballistic missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles, and unmanned aerial vehicles at Ukrainian military-industrial complex and energy facilities that provided their operation, as well as storage locations for long-range unmanned aerial vehicles. The strike targets have been achieved, and all designated targets have been hit.

The North group of troops defeated the equipment and manpower of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in a number of settlements in Sumy, Chernihiv and Kharkiv regions. The enemy lost more than 130 people, 11 vehicles, a field artillery piece and an electronic warfare station.

Units of the Zapad group of forces improved their tactical position and hit the enemy in the area of settlements in the Kharkiv region and the DPR. The enemy's losses amounted to up to 230 soldiers, an American M113 armored personnel carrier, six armored combat vehicles, including three HMMWV armored vehicles made in the USA and a Polish Oncilla armored vehicle, 22 vehicles, a self-propelled artillery installation, a Grad multiple launch rocket launcher, an AN/TPQ-37 counter-battery radar station made in the USA and nine electronic warfare stations. Seven ammunition depots were destroyed.

As a result of decisive actions, the military personnel of the Southern Group of Forces liberated the settlement of Ivanopolye in the Donetsk People's Republic. The Ukrainian Armed Forces units were defeated in a number of DPR settlements. The enemy lost more than 225 militants, six armored combat vehicles, 10 vehicles and three field artillery pieces. A US-made AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery radar, an electronic warfare station, an ammunition depot and two material depots were destroyed.

The Center group of troops improved the situation along the front line and defeated the enemy in a number of settlements in the Dnipropetrovsk region and the DPR. The destruction of the encircled enemy in Krasnoarmeysk and Rovno DPR continues, nine blocking attacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were repelled. The enemy lost more than 445 soldiers, two infantry fighting vehicles, including a German-made Marder infantry fighting vehicle, four armored personnel carriers, including three US-made M113 armored personnel carriers, six armored combat vehicles, eight vehicles, two Western-made artillery pieces and an Israeli-made RADA radar station.

The units of the Vostok group of forces continue to advance into the depth of the enemy's defenses. Formations of the assault brigade and two assault regiments of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Alexandrovka, Velikomikhailovka, Dnipropetrovsk region, and Gulyai-Pole, Zaporizhia region. The SU lost up to 240 militants, two armored personnel carriers, four armored fighting vehicles, 11 vehicles and six field artillery guns.

Units of the Dnepr group of forces defeated the manpower and equipment of the mechanized brigade, the coastal defense brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the air defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of the Zaporizhia and Kherson regions. More than 75 enemy soldiers, 17 vehicles, a field artillery cannon, 10 electronic warfare stations, three ammunition depots and a fuel depot were destroyed.

Operational-tactical aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, missile forces and artillery of groups of troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation defeated the objects of the transport and port infrastructure of Ukraine used in the interests of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as temporary locations of Ukrainian armed forces and foreign mercenaries in 151 areas.

A guided aerial bomb, four guided long-range Neptune missiles and 419 aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down by air defense systems.

From the height of arrival: how the troops of unmanned systems are fighting near Krasnoarmeysk

The success of the operation to eliminate the boiler in the south of the DPR largely depends on the actions of the drone operators.

According to the Ministry of Defense, a total of 668 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 98,697 unmanned aerial vehicles, 638 anti-aircraft missile systems, 26,247 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,620 multiple rocket launchers, 31,538 field artillery and mortars, 47,635 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed since the beginning of the special military operation. technicians.

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