Map of the special operation in Ukraine on December 23

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 December 23 in the Izvestia material.

In response to the terrorist attacks by Ukraine on civilian targets in Russia, this morning the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation launched a massive strike with high-precision long-range ground-based and air-based weapons, including aeroballistic hypersonic Kinzhal missiles and long-range unmanned aerial vehicles against enterprises of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine and energy facilities that ensure their operation. The objectives of the strike have been achieved. All designated objects are affected.

Units of the North group of forces have actively taken control of the village of Prilipka, Kharkiv region. Formations of two mechanized brigades, the assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) and the air defense brigade were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Ryzhevka, Grabovskoye, Andreevka, Alekseevka and Yablonovka of the Sumy region. The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 160 military personnel, three armored combat vehicles, nine vehicles and an electronic warfare station. An ammunition depot and two material depots were destroyed.

"The units of the Zapad group of forces have improved their position along the front line. They defeated the manpower and equipment of three mechanized assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and a National Guard brigade in the areas of Kupyansk-Uzlovaya, Podoly, Kovsharovka, Glushkovka, Boguslavka, Novoplatonovka, Druzhladovka of the Kharkiv region, Novoegorovka of the Luhansk People's Republic, Alexandrovka, Dibrova, Drobyshevo, Krasny Liman and Ilyichovka of the Donetsk People's Republic. The losses of the Ukrainian armed forces amounted to over 200 soldiers and 12 vehicles," the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.

The "southern" group of troops has taken more advantageous positions and frontiers. It defeated formations of two mechanized and mountain assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Minkovka, Platonovka, Kirovo, Kuzminovka, Petrovskoye, Bondarnoye, Chervonoye, Privolye, Konstantinovka, Stepanovka and Nikolaevka of the Donetsk People's Republic. The enemy lost up to 215 soldiers, an armored personnel carrier and four vehicles.

The fighters of the Vostok group continued to advance into the depths of the enemy's defenses and liberated the settlement of Andreevka, Dnipropetrovsk region. They defeated the manpower and equipment of a mechanized assault brigade, two assault regiments of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a National Guard brigade and a defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Barvinovka, Ternovatoye, Lyubitskoye, Gulyai-Pole, Verkhnyaya Tersa, Kosovtsevo, Zarechnoye, Zaporizhia region and Kommunarovka, Dnipropetrovsk region. The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 320 soldiers, four armored combat vehicles, six vehicles and an artillery piece.

The Russian army, with the help of aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), missiles and artillery, has defeated port and transport infrastructure facilities used in the interests of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, control points for long-range unmanned aerial systems, as well as temporary locations of Ukrainian armed forces, nationalists and foreign mercenaries in 140 areas. In turn, air defense systems shot down a guided aerial bomb and 56 aircraft-type drones.

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According to the Russian Defense Ministry, since the beginning of the special operation, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have lost 669 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 104,146 UAVs, 640 anti-aircraft missile systems, 26,668 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,634 multiple launch rocket launchers, 32,097 field artillery and mortars, 49,801 units of special military vehicles.

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