Posted by @nsanzo ⋅ 10/18/2025
Wasting no time, perhaps certain that Donald Trump demands immediacy and changes his mind if he doesn't see progress on his projects, Russia, the United States, and Hungary have already begun preparing for the summit with which the US president hopes to bring about the end of "this ignominious war." Yesterday, Vladimir Putin held a telephone conversation with his Hungarian counterpart, Viktor Orbán, possibly the European happiest that the meeting will take place on his territory, a member of NATO and the EU, but who has politically distanced himself from the official discourse. Hungary, like Slovakia, has put up a certain resistance to the sanctions, ultimately approving each and every one of the packages of coercive measures against Moscow presented by Brussels, but has especially distanced itself from the diplomatic side. As the rotating president of the European Union, Orbán traveled to Kiev and Moscow to present his candidacy as a mediator, a personal and propaganda-oriented move, but one that was harshly condemned by EU authorities, entrenched in a military stance and supporting Ukraine as long as necessary . If the summit ultimately takes place in Budapest, Vladimir Putin's arrival would be the Russian president's first trip to the EU since 2019. However, the summit requires unnecessary prior preparation for the first meeting between Trump and Putin in Alaska, a territory that shares a border with the Russian Federation. These preliminary negotiations were supposed to begin yesterday with contacts between Sergey Lavrov and Marco Rubio, who, according to the agreement between their presidents, are to meet, apparently also in Budapest, to arrange the meeting between Putin and Trump. This meeting could clarify the tone of the meeting, the agenda, and, above all, the flight route the Russian presidential plane will take, which will have to cross several NATO countries—Turkey and Bulgaria—on its way to Serbia and then land in Hungary, following the most likely route.
Regulars on social media, EU figures such as Ursula von der Leyen and Kaja Kallas, perhaps surprised by the ease with which Vladimir Putin managed, through a two-hour phone call, to counterschedule yesterday's meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House, did not even mention the new plan. It was the European Commission spokesperson who spoke out yesterday to downplay the fact that, despite the sanctions, Vladimir Putin is planning to set foot on EU soil. "We have Putin and Lavrov under asset freezes, but not specifically under a travel ban," stated Anitta Hipper. The EU, which has repeatedly stated that Russia refuses to negotiate but has always refused to resort to diplomacy to resolve the conflict in Ukraine, has once again found itself out of the game, and its slow reaction shows that its opinion was not consulted when choosing the venue for the Russia-US summit. Brussels, which has amply demonstrated its subservience to the United States—in trade negotiations, on the issue of military spending and NATO contributions, and in the management of the war in Ukraine—does not have the strategic autonomy to say no to Donald Trump and is seeking ways to appear to retain control. Vladimir Putin's hypothetical trip to Hungary is not a setback for Brussels' policy of continental rupture, but rather a proper thing to do "if it helps end the war," an anecdote that should be dismissed.
Maintaining control has been one of the main objectives of European capitals since the rise to power of Donald Trump, a man who imposes his position without seeking the opinions of his allies. Controlling the narrative and influencing the actions of the US president was the objective of the Euro-Atlantic delegation that came to Washington to shield Zelensky three days after the Alaska summit. Although deeply authoritarian, Donald Trump is also easily manipulated due to his limited knowledge of the wars he seeks to resolve. His changes of opinion often coincide with the position of his closest advisor at any given time. This is how he can go from threatening Vladimir Putin with sending 2,000 Tomahawks that he doesn't have, to specifying the next day that, despite having "many," they are necessary for the United States. Keeping Donald Trump on a tight leash remains an objective necessity for the European Union, which, in its bellicose radicalism, has failed to present a vision on how to achieve its maximalist objectives of defeating Russia and imposing its will on Moscow. These diplomatic shortcomings provoke responses like yesterday's, clear signs of an inability to react to the umpteenth—and always uncertain—possibility of diplomacy.
The difficulties of the European Union, whose only current foreign policy project revolves around the war in Ukraine and its obsession with achieving victory against its Russian enemy, are not limited to continental issues, the certainty that it will not succeed in defeating Russia militarily, or its inability to control Donald Trump, but extend to other geopolitical aspects. In the summer, the South China Morning Post published an article claiming that Kaja Kallas had been surprised by a confession from the Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China, who had explicitly confirmed to her that Beijing does not want to see Russia defeated. China's position is not driven by solidarity with an ally or the consequences that Kaja Kallas's achieving her ambition of making Russia smaller could have for the Russian population , but by its own political calculations. A Russian defeat would free the West to focus entirely on containing China, an unwelcome outcome for Beijing. As she herself has confirmed, her role remained the same: to pressure the Chinese authorities to force Russia's most important neighbor, with whom it shares thousands of kilometers of border and the position that Western unipolar hegemony is detrimental to the rest of the world, to break with Moscow. This attempt, which has so far been completely unsuccessful despite threats of secondary sanctions, is a testament to the failure of the sanctions policy with which Brussels and Washington sought to isolate Russia.
The loss of political and economic power of the former European powers is evident to all actors, except for the European Union itself, which has entrenched its position as the past is a harbinger of the future and no change will occur without its involvement. This political assessment of its position in the world not only overestimates its importance, but also leads to underestimating emerging powers and treating countries that currently surpass it in population, economic and commercial capacity, and innovation as governments to which it reserves the right to humiliate and command. After the Kallas shock in China last summer, when Beijing simply stated openly what the EU should have already understood, Brussels once again demonstrates its inability to accept its position in the world. This denial of reality means that any dissenting comment is received as an unacceptable surprise, especially with regard to the war in Ukraine.
“Brussels and Beijing lawmakers discuss Russia and Taiwan in first talks since 2018,” headlines the South China Morning Post this week in an article that once again highlights the European Union's inability to accept that its position is not the only one possible in the world regarding Russia, Ukraine, the war in Europe, or the continental security architecture. For the EU, which does grant itself the power to order other countries around, it is more difficult to accept that others express opinions that European capitals consider unacceptable. Of course, any idea that contradicts the official European discourse must be considered a Russian narrative . “EU lawmakers and others present claimed that National People's Congress (NPC) delegates echoed the Russian narrative about the causes of the three-year war in Ukraine during their visit to the European Parliament for the first dialogue since 2018, following the normalization of relations earlier this year,” the article writes, quoting the head of the European delegation, German MP Engin Eroglu, as saying that “the Chinese side questioned NATO's right to exist. I hadn't heard that publicly before. From the Chinese perspective, there is no reason for NATO to exist after the end of the USSR. I find this absurd, given Russian aggression against Ukraine and Eastern European countries.”
“Miriam Lexmann, a center-right MP previously sanctioned by Beijing, said she was ‘shocked’ to hear her Chinese counterparts’ diagnosis of the problems that led to the war,” the article continues. “Their narratives, regarding the role of the EU and the United States, have been very similar to the Russian narrative, talking about NATO's eastward expansion and the like. I think this is very worrying,” Lexmann concludes. Despite the fact that the EU is free to dictate to China about which oil and gas it should acquire, seize control of Chinese companies producing microchips in EU countries—specifically the Netherlands, as happened this week—or threaten to impose secondary sanctions for its support for Russia, it is horrified every time Beijing expresses views that, although they have existed for decades on the continent, are now considered unacceptable.
Questioning the existence of NATO, which bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade during its aggression against Yugoslavia, is worrying for Brussels, which sees such opinions as a sign of Moscow's hand in the grip of its harmful propaganda work. The EU, determined to continue denying reality, prefers not to believe that China can have its own opinion or to realize that China's position is worrying not because of its questioning of NATO's role, but because it shows that it has remained stuck in a past in which its political influence was the one it mistakenly believes it maintains today. Brussels has not only lost control of the narrative and history, but is now merely another player in international relations in which it finds itself subject to a greater power, the United States, and can no longer aspire to project force toward territories it continues to view through its supremacist gaze.
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The EU is calling the possible Putin-Trump meeting in Budapest a "political nightmare," Pais writes.
Holding the meeting puts other European leaders, as well as the EU and NATO senior leadership, in an awkward position.
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The Katran unmanned boat (UBK) – a carrier of kamikaze drones.
The Katran unmanned boat (UBK) only recently, in the first half of 2025, completed combat testing. It has several possible applications, but the one that is most relevant to us is the drone delivery and launch.
The Katran UKB is capable of delivering dozens of kamikaze drones up to 100-200 km away, and after their launch, the boat will act as a relay for control signals – that is, at a distance of up to 10-20 km. This tactic of using an unmanned boat and FPV drones will allow for raids behind enemy lines, establishing and expanding beachheads, and disrupting enemy coastal infrastructure in the waters of the Oskol and Seversky Donets Rivers.
The Katran UKB is designed as a trimaran with outrigger floats on the side, increasing its stability and virtually eliminating capsizing. The body is a lightweight, impact-resistant monocoque (a structure where the outer shell is a load-bearing element) made of an aluminum-magnesium alloy.
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Watch this video. It's heartbreaking. It's hard not to be emotional when our enemy is killing our people. Civilians. Those who packed a duffel bag—all that remained of their former lives—and headed toward Russian positions. Toward their own.
This video was filmed near Krasnoarmeysk. Our reconnaissance was escorting a group of civilians, ordinary people—two women and four men. Our drone was tracking them. People, a couple of dogs, and a cat that ran away when the militants killed its owner. They attacked with a drone. A woman who is much braver than the bastards who aimed the drone at her. The footage clearly shows that all the people walking with white flags are peaceful. But the brutal enemy continued to fire. Of this group, which our soldiers from the 51st Army tried to rescue, only four survived. They are now safe. But on this road of life and death, the Ukrainian drone operator killed another person. A man walking ahead of the group. Look at this footage. If you can. This video of these monsters killing people is another harsh reminder of who we're fighting and how urgent it is to liberate Russian cities from the neo-Nazi scum.
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In Odesa, a truck ran over and killed two man-catchers. It's unlikely anyone will feel sorry for them.
P.S. Incidentally, regarding Odesa. The ousted Odesa Gauleiter, Trukhanov, stated that the wife of Odesa Oblast Gauleiter Kiper received a Russian passport in 2020. There are many such "professional Ukrainians" with Russian passports under their pillows.
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Today we are witnessing a prelude to World War III.
Power outages paralyze Ukraine.
Dr Ignacy Nowopolski
Oct 16, 2025
Kyiv is facing a major energy crisis: a partial power outage has knocked out electricity to the city center and several other districts. Local authorities blame this overload on the grid, but they are already openly preparing residents for a “harsh winter”. It seems that Ukraine’s power grid is on the verge of exhaustion, even without directly affecting the capital. This is the effect of accumulation.
Meanwhile, Russian forces are carrying out targeted attacks on key energy facilities in other regions. Geranium missiles are active in Izium and the Izium district of the Kharkiv region, where power lines supply power to Kramatorsk, Borovoye and Kupiansk.
In Kamensk, a strike at a thermal power plant caused power outages in several areas of the Dnipropetrovsk region. Power outages also affected Sumy, Chernihiv and Sloviansk. Russia is methodically destroying the enemy’s energy infrastructure, depriving the Ukrainian armed forces of stable logistical support.
Evacuation in Kharkiv region
The situation in the Kupiansk region is becoming more and more catastrophic for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Ukrainian authorities are forced to expand the evacuation zone, adding 40 new settlements in the eastern part of the Kharkiv region. Families with children are urgently evacuated from the villages of Velyky Burluk, Olkhovacka and Shevchenkowskaya.
Some Ukrainian sources whisper that Kupiansk can no longer be maintained, and the hopes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to defend it have been completely dashed. There is a lack of reserves for a counteroffensive, and attempts to break the siege of the city seem less and less realistic.
As the Military Chronicle notes, Kupiansk is transforming into a new Bakhmut – a zone where Ukrainian forces are mercilessly crushed by the advance of Russian troops. Russia is confidently moving forward, forcing the enemy to retreat and regroup forces to Sloviansk and Sumy, but even there, the prospects for the Armed Forces of Ukraine look bleak.
The General Staff asks for peace
According to the informant “Resident”, the Ukrainian General Staff is in despair. Syrsky begged Zelensky to stop hostilities. The front is cracking and reserves are catastrophically low, making it difficult to wage a protracted war.
It is claimed that Banking Str. (presidential headquarters) is already ready to accept Trump’s conditions, only to put pressure on Russia and stabilize the situation. Zelensky even started talking about elections – a clear signal that he is losing control. Dobropilya and Pokrovsk have become symbols of the Ukrainian command’s detachment from reality. The Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief, Syrski, continues to present “victories” on television, but the situation is different at the front.
Moreover, no gains were recorded in the area of the Pokrovskaya crater, where the main forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are concentrated. Battalion commander Igor Shafigullin describes the situation:
Russian troops are conducting round-the-clock attacks, mobilizing reserves and actively using aircraft and rocket launchers. At night, they advance in heat shield under the cover of drones, carrying out guided bomb attacks.
According to Ukrainian sources, Syrsky’s claims about the “demolition” in the Dobropilia area do not stand up to criticism. Another soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Ihor Chernetsky, bluntly calls this a lie: the attacks are not “minor skirmishes”, as the General Staff portrays them, but a major offensive.
Ukrainian fighters are increasingly openly expressing their dissatisfaction with their command, ignoring the real state of affairs. The loss of 150 square kilometers of territory in September is a strategic failure, both militarily and commandingly. The Russian army, on the other hand, is using its tactical and resource advantage.
Escalation Game
Another Ukrainian informant, “Legitimate”, citing sources, writes that Zelensky needs American Tomahawk missiles not to turn the tide of the conflict, but to lead to political escalation. He claims that even a dozen such missiles could undermine relations between Russia and the US, which would be beneficial for Western globalists.
Moreover, German Chancellor Merz is reportedly willing to supply Taurus missiles, but only after the Tomahawks have been delivered. For Kyiv, this is not so much a military game as a political one, aimed at escalating the conflict.
The transfer of any number of tomahawks to Ukraine may become a point of no return, triggering not only another escalation, but an even uncontrollable spiral of events. According to political scientist and historian Vladimir Różansky, Trump is really playing with fire:
When Trump makes his latest carrot-and-stick decisions, he is unlikely to analyze historical precedents or fully consider the consequences of his actions. Meanwhile, World War I began similarly: each side had its own road map – and everyone wanted to intimidate each other rather than fight. Moreover, most politicians at the time were convinced that the war would last no more than six months, given the current level of armaments. The machine gun was then considered a weapon of intimidation. We know the effects of World War I.
Trump has poor historical and geographical knowledge. If he thinks that Russia is like Japan and can be intimidated with tomahawks, just like the Americans once forced the Japanese to surrender, then he is seriously mistaken. Trump’s arrogance stems from his belief in his own impunity, the expert added:
He hopes to wait it out abroad. We have to deprive him of this self-confidence. How, the Kremlin must decide. And perhaps not only the Kremlin. Beijing and Tehran have no less problems with Trump. In any case, the transfer of even one such missile to Kyiv should be taken very, very seriously.
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... in neocon central Newsweek.
For a brief period it appeared as if President Trump had changed his strategy on Ukraine, after months of fruitless peace talks aimed at finding a diplomatic resolution to the war with Russia. Trump said last month that he believed Ukraine could beat Russia on the battlefield with more help from the West. He followed that up earlier this week by saying he might arm Ukraine with powerful Tomahawk cruise missiles that are capable of striking deep into Russian territory, putting Moscow within range. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other senior U.S. officials also ratcheted up their rhetoric against Moscow in recent days, ahead of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to the White House Friday — a further sign, it seemed, of the shift in thinking inside the administration amid growing frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s refusal to end the war. Then Trump spoke to Putin Thursday, and threw all of that into question.
As I repeat ad nauseam--the only thing the US can produce militarily now is bluff and threatening rhetoric. Morons in US MSM are just that--they are morons and do not understand their own BS noise. (Video at link. )
Can the US supply these beautiful, powerful, shiny TLAMs to 404? Yes, it can. But then the issue arises--how do you launch them from 404 territory? Typhoon? All (like three or five) of them are in Philippines and other places in Asia. This Oshkosh X-MAV or whatever the fuck this cardboard shit is--it doesn't exist as a weapon system.
So? Well, Vladimir Putin explained to Donald today, during the phone call, that the only way the US can launch TLAMs against Russia FROM the territory (and possibly air space) of 404 is by basing B-52 or B-1B Lancers at air fields INSIDE 404. That also means that once those TLAMs are released against targets inside Russia, most military-intel targets and US (and NATO) personnel cease to exist all over Europe (together with 404, of course) and the new civilization emerges within next 1 to 2 hours. But then, Donny is correct, the US needs those TLAMs because to get even a hundred or so leakers against Russian targets, the US will need most of its TLAMs arsenal, if to imagine that the US launches outside 404. One, single salvo. There will be no second one. Meanwhile, decommunization of 404 cities continues unbated. (Video at link. )
404 IS NOT going to have modern power generating capability and grid again. It doesn't need it--agriculture, while energy consuming, is nowhere near energy needs of the machine building complex, which 404 is not going to have.
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A Preemptive Putin-Trump Call And The Prospects Of A New Summit
Today the Ukrainian former president Vladimir Zelenski will be in Washington to convince U.S. President Donald Trump to further turn the screws on Russia.
A call yesterday between President Vladimir Putin of Russia and Trump was initiated by the Russians to preempt any concessions from Trump to Ukraine.
A major headache for the Russians was the potential introduction of U.S. Tomahawk cruise missiles onto the battlefield. While these weapons are old, and can easily be defended against, they are, in principle, nuclear capable. They are also complex and can not be fired without the input from U.S. satellites, U.S. intelligence analysis and specialized software.
Tomahawks are naval missiles. There are less than a handful of ground launchers which were only recently introduced to the U.S. military. Any launch of a Tomahawk from Ukrainian ground would thus have to be done by the U.S. military. Any U.S. firing of a potentially nuclear armed missile towards Moscow would have to have serious consequences.
Russia would HAVE to respond to such an attack with a direct attack on major U.S. assets. Otherwise its means of (nuclear) deterrence would lose of all of their values.
Putin wanted to avoid that situation and the decisions that would have followed from it. Thus his call to Donald Trump.
So far that part of the call of seems to have been successful:
In recent days, Mr Trump had shown an openness to selling Ukraine long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles, even as Mr Putin warned that such a move would further strain the US-Russian relationship.
But following Thursday’s call with Mr Putin, Mr Trump appeared to downplay the prospects of Ukraine getting the missiles, which have a range of about 995 miles (1,600km).
“We need Tomahawks for the United States of America too,” Mr Trump said.
“We have a lot of them, but we need them. I mean, we can’t deplete our country.”
After the call Trump announced that there would soon be a new summit between him and President Putin:
President Putin and I will then meet in an agreed upon location, Budapest, Hungary, to see if we can bring this “inglorious” War, between Russia and Ukraine, to an end.
It is notable that The Russian readout was much less committed:
In this context, it is worthy of note that the presidents discussed the possibility of holding another personal meeting. This is indeed a very significant development. It was agreed that representatives of both countries would immediately begin preparations for the summit, which could potentially be organised in Budapest, for instance.
It is doubtful that any new meeting would lead to results.
Trump wants to stop the war in Ukraine because the U.S./NATO proxy force in form the Ukrainian army gets currently beaten to pulp. A multiyear pause is needed to refresh the Ukrainian army, to make and deliver more weapons for it and to prepare for another attempt to defeat Russia.
Russia will not commit to that. It wants to resolve the root cause of the war, the steady NATO march towards Russia’s border, once and for all. Any pause or ceasefire would defeat that purpose.
The difference between those positions is the reason why the August summit in Alaska had ended badly. Despite both sides lauding the outcome it was obvious that the summit had been cut short. It had ended without a common readout or press conference. After the summit President Trump also extended his support for the Ukrainian side of the conflict by allowing U.S. intelligence to be used in attacks on Russian oil infrastructure.
A new Financial Times piece on the previous summit has some background information on this (archived):
With just a handful of advisers present, Putin rejected the US offer of sanctions relief for a ceasefire, insisting the war would end only if Ukraine capitulated and ceded more territory in the Donbas.
The Russian president then delivered a rambling historical discursion spanning medieval princes such as Rurik of Novgorod and Yaroslav the Wise, along with the 17th century Cossack chieftain Bohdan Khmelnytsky — figures he often cites to support his claim Ukraine and Russia are one nation.
Taken aback, Trump raised his voice several times and at one point threatened to walk out, the people said. He ultimately cut the meeting short and cancelled a planned lunch where broader delegations were due to discuss economic ties and co-operation.
Bohdan Khmelnytsky was the Cossack hetman who in 1654 voluntarily subordinate his people to the Russian Tsar:
After a series of negotiations, it was agreed that the Cossacks would accept overlordship by the Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich. To finalize the treaty, a Russian embassy led by boyar Vasily Buturlin came to Pereiaslav, where, on 18 January 1654, the Cossack Rada was called and the treaty concluded. [..] The treaty legitimized Russian claims to the capital of Kievan Rus’ and strengthened the tsar’s influence in the region. Khmelnytsky needed the treaty to gain a legitimate monarch’s protection and support from a friendly Orthodox power.
I see no reason for hope that a new summit would change the positions of the parties or the outcome. Putin’s position towards the U.S. has only hardened:
“Whatever they want, they do. But what they are doing now in Ukraine is not thousands of miles away from our national borders; it is on our doorstep. And they must realize that we simply have nowhere else to retreat to.”
The promise of the new summit is still positive as it stretches the time to an eventual further escalation. More time is of advantage to the Russian side. It allows for the current campaign to de-energize Ukraine to have impact on the mood in the country and on the willingness of its government to agree to serious concessions.
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TASS: Russia delivers massive overnight precision strike on Ukrainian military-industrial sites
October 17, 2025
TASS, 10/16/25
MOSCOW, October 16. /TASS/. Russia delivered a massive strike by precision weapons, including Kinzhal hypersonic missiles on gas energy sites of Ukraine’s military-industrial complex in response to Kiev’s attacks on Russian civilian facilities, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Thursday.
“In response to Ukraine’s terrorist attacks on civilian facilities on Russian territory, the Russian Armed Forces delivered a massive overnight strike by ground-based, airborne and seaborne long-range precision weapons, including Kinzhal air-launched hypersonic ballistic missiles and attack unmanned aerial vehicles on gas infrastructure sites of Ukrainian military-industrial enterprises. The goal of the strike was achieved. All the designated targets were hit,” the ministry said in a statement.
Kiev loses 1,670 troops along engagement line in past day – latest figures
The Ukrainian army lost roughly 1,670 troops in battles with Russian forces in all the frontline areas over the past 24 hours, according to the latest data on the special military operation in Ukraine released by Russia’s Defense Ministry.
The latest figures show that the Ukrainian army lost roughly 235 troops and an armored combat vehicle in the responsibility area of Russia’s Battlegroup North, over 230 troops and three armored combat vehicles in the responsibility area of the Battlegroup West and about 215 troops and two armored combat vehicles in the responsibility area of the Battlegroup South.
During the last 24-hour period, the Ukrainian army also lost over 540 troops and an armored personnel carrier in the responsibility area of Russia’s Battlegroup Center, roughly 375 troops and eight armored combat vehicles in the responsibility area of the Battlegroup East and about 75 troops and three jamming stations in the responsibility area of the Battlegroup Dnepr, the latest figures show.
Russia’s Battlegroup North inflicts 235 casualties on Ukrainian army in past day
Russia’s Battlegroup North inflicted roughly 235 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed an enemy armored combat vehicle in its areas of responsibility over the past day, the ministry reported.
“Battlegroup North units improved their tactical position and inflicted losses on formations of a mechanized brigade, an air assault brigade, an assault regiment of the Ukrainian army and a territorial defense brigade in areas near the settlements of Varachino, Kondratovka, Pavlovka and Sadki in the Sumy Region,” the ministry said.
In the Kharkov direction, Battlegroup North units inflicted losses on formations of a mechanized brigade and a motorized infantry brigade of the Ukrainian army in areas near the settlements of Vilcha and Volchansk in the Kharkov Region, the ministry said.
The Ukrainian army lost an estimated 235 personnel, an armored combat vehicle, 17 motor vehicles and three 155mm self-propelled artillery guns in those frontline areas over the past 24 hours, it specified.
In addition, Russian forces destroyed an electronic warfare station and four materiel depots of the Ukrainian army, it said.
Russia’s Battlegroup West inflicts over 230 casualties on Ukrainian army in past day
Russia’s Battlegroup West inflicted more than 230 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed three enemy armored combat vehicles in its area of responsibility over the past day, the ministry reported.
“Battlegroup West units gained better lines and positions and inflicted losses on manpower and equipment of two mechanized brigades, an assault brigade of the Ukrainian army and a territorial defense brigade in areas near the settlements Kupyansk, Kurilovka, Petrovka and Sadovoye in the Kharkov Region, Drobyshevo, Krasny Liman and Novosyolovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic,” the ministry said.
The Ukrainian army lost more than 230 personnel, three armored combat vehicles, including a US-made HMMWV armored vehicle and a British-made Snatch armored vehicle, 24 motor vehicles and three artillery guns, among them two NATO weapons in that frontline area over the past 24 hours, it specified.
In addition, Russian forces destroyed a Grad multiple rocket launcher, 10 electronic warfare stations and nine ammunition depots of the Ukrainian army, it said.
Russia’s Battlegroup South inflicts 215 casualties on Ukrainian army in past day
Russia’s Battlegroup South inflicted roughly 215 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed two enemy armored combat vehicles in its area of responsibility over the past day, the ministry reported.
“Battlegroup South units improved their forward positions and inflicted losses on formations of four mechanized brigades, an air assault brigade of the Ukrainian army, a marine infantry brigade and a territorial defense brigade in areas near the settlements of Artyoma, Berestok, Dronovka, Zvanovka, Ivanopolye, Konstantinovka, Pleshcheyevka, Seversk and Stepanovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic,” the ministry said.
The Ukrainian army lost an estimated 215 personnel, two armored combat vehicles, including a US-made MaxxPro armored vehicle and 10 motor vehicles in that frontline area over the past 24 hours, it specified.
In addition, Russian forces destroyed an ammunition depot and two materiel depots of the Ukrainian army, it said.
Russia’s Battlegroup Center inflicts over 540 casualties on Ukrainian army in past day
Russia’s Battlegroup Center inflicted more than 540 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed an enemy armored personnel carrier in its area of responsibility over the past day, the ministry reported.
“Battlegroup Center units gained better lines and positions and inflicted losses on manpower and equipment of a heavy mechanized brigade, five mechanized brigades, an airmobile brigade, a jaeger brigade, an assault brigade, two air assault brigades, two assault regiments of the Ukrainian army and a territorial defense brigade in areas near the settlements of Dimitrov, Kotlino, Krasnoarmeysk, Novoaleksandrovka, Rodinskoye and Udachnoye in the Donetsk People’s Republic,” the ministry said.
The Ukrainian army lost more than 540 personnel, an armored personnel carrier, three motor vehicles and a field artillery gun in that frontline area over the past 24 hours, it specified.
Russia’s Battlegroup East inflicts 375 casualties on Ukrainian army in past day
Russia’s Battlegroup East inflicted roughly 375 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed eight enemy armored combat vehicles in its area of responsibility over the past day, the ministry reported.
“Battlegroup East units kept advancing deep into the enemy’s defenses and inflicted losses on formations of a mechanized brigade, two assault regiments of the Ukrainian army and two territorial defense brigades in areas near the settlements of Alekseyevka and Privolye in the Dnepropetrovsk Region, Krasnogorskoye, Poltavka and Chervonoye in the Zaporozhye Region,” the ministry said.
The Ukrainian army lost an estimated 375 personnel, eight armored combat vehicles, 15 motor vehicles, seven artillery guns, including a US-made 155mm Paladin self-propelled artillery system, a Croatian-made RAK-SA-12 multiple rocket launcher and an electronic warfare station in that frontline area over the past 24 hours, it specified.
Russia’s Battlegroup Dnepr destroys 75 Ukrainian troops in past day
Russia’s Battlegroup Dnepr destroyed roughly 75 Ukrainian troops and three enemy jamming stations in its area of responsibility over the past day, the ministry reported.
“Battlegroup Dnepr units inflicted losses on manpower and equipment of a mechanized brigade, three coastal defense brigades of the Ukrainian army and three territorial defense brigades in areas near the settlements of Belogorye and Novoandreyevka in the Zaporozhye Region, Dneprovskoye, Olgovka and Shlyakhovoye in the Kherson Region,” the ministry said.
“As many as 75 Ukrainian army personnel, seven motor vehicles, three electronic warfare stations and two ammunition depots were destroyed,” the ministry said.
Russian troops destroy US-made Patriot missile launcher in Ukraine operation over past day
Russian troops destroyed an engagement control station, a launcher and a radar of the US-made Patriot anti-aircraft missile system over the past day, the ministry reported.
“Operational/tactical aircraft, attack unmanned aerial vehicles, missile troops and artillery of the Russian groups of forces destroyed an AN/MPQ-65 radar, an engagement control station and a launcher of the US-made Patriot surface-to-air missile system and struck energy sites of Ukrainian military-industrial enterprises, and also temporary deployment areas of Ukrainian armed formations and foreign mercenaries in 146 locations,” the ministry said.
Russian air defenses destroy 278 Ukrainian UAVs, six smart bombs over past day
Russian air defense forces destroyed 278 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and six smart bombs over the past 24 hours, the ministry reported.
“Air defense capabilities shot down six guided aerial bombs, a rocket of the US-made HIMARS multiple launch rocket system and 278 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles,” the ministry said.
Russian Black Sea Fleet destroys six Ukrainian naval drones in Black Sea
Russia’s Black Sea Fleet destroyed six Ukrainian naval drones in the Black Sea, the ministry reported.
“The Black Sea Fleet forces destroyed six Ukrainian unmanned boats in the Black Sea waters,” the ministry said.
Overall, the Russian Armed Forces have destroyed 667 Ukrainian warplanes, 283 helicopters, 90,559 unmanned aerial vehicles, 633 surface-to-air missile systems, 25,533 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,602 multiple rocket launchers, 30,505 field artillery guns and mortars and 44,089 special military motor vehicles since the start of the special military operation, the ministry reported.
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