by Russian Defence Ministry on progress of special military operationas of 16 June 2025
Posted: 2025-06-16T11:18:27 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: MoD Russia
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
↗️The Sever Group of Forces' units advanced to the depths of the enemy's defence. Manpower and hardware of three mechanised brigades, one jaeger brigade, two air assault brigades, two assault regiments of the AFU, and one territorial defence brigade were hit close to Novaya Sech, Ryzhevka, Iskriskovshchina, Pisarevka, Sadki (Sumy region), and Udy (Kharkov region).
▪️The AFU losses amounted to more than 230 troops, eight armoured fighting vehicles, three motor vehicles, and three field artillery guns. One electronic warfare station and two ammunition depots were neutralised.
Units of the Zapad Group of Forces improved the tactical situation. Losses were inflicted on formations of one mechanised brigade, one air assault brigade of the AFU, and two territorial defence brigades near Kupyansk, Kolodeznoye, Glushchenkovo (Kharkov region), Kirovsk, and Shandrigolovo (Donetsk People's Republic).
▪️The enemy lost up to 190 troops, one tank, and 10 pickup trucks. One ammunition depot was destroyed.
↗️Units of the Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions. The Group's units hit manpower and hardware of four mechanised brigades, one motorised infantry brigade, one mountain assault brigade, and one airmobile brigade of the AFU close to Seversk, Minkovka, Semenovka, Bondarnoye, Chasov Yar, Dyleyevka, and Konstantinovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
▪️The AFU lost more than 175 troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, to include one U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carrier, four motor vehicles, and one artillery gun. Three electronic warfare stations, one U.S.-made AN/MPQ-64 radar station, two ammunition depots, and two materiel depots were destroyed.
Units of the Tsentr Group of Forces improved the situation along the front line. Formations of five mechanised brigades, two air assault brigades, one UAV brigade of the AFU, two marine brigades, and three national guard brigades were hit close to Dimitrov, Krasnoarmeysk, Novonikolayevka, and Novosergeyevka (Donetsk People's Republic).
▪️The enemy losses amounted to up to 490 troops, four armoured fighting vehicles, to include one U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carrier, five pickup trucks, and one artillery gun. One U.S.-made AN/TPQ-36 counter-battery radar station was destroyed.
See Part 2
Russian Defence Ministry
Posted: 2025-06-16T11:18:27 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: MoD Russia
by Russian Defence Ministry on progress of special military operationas of 16 June 2025
Part 2 ( see Part 1)
↗️Units of the Vostok Group of Forces continued advancing into the depth of enemy defence. The Group's units inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of two mechanised brigades of the AFU and one territorial defence brigade near Zaporozhye (Donetsk People's Republic), Novopavlovka (Dnepropetrovsk region), Gulyaipole, and Temirovka (Zaporozhye region).
▪️The AFU lost more than 175 troops, one armoured fighting vehicle, 11 motor vehicles, three field artillery guns, and two electronic warfare stations.
Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces launched strikes at formations of one mechanised brigade, one mountain assault brigade, three coastal defence brigades of the AFU, and one territorial defence brigade near Novodanilovka, Pavlovka (Zaporozhye region), Zolotaya Balka, Nikolskoye, and Antonovka (Kherson region).
▪️Up to 60 troops, six motor vehicles, two electronic warfare stations, one ammunition depot, and one materiel depot were eliminated.
✈️ Operational-Tactical Aviation, strike drones and Missile troops and Artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have inflicted damage on the Ukrainian defence industry enterprise, training centre of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, air defence radar stations, assembly workshops, strike UAV storage facilities and command posts, ammunition, explosive ordnance, and materiel depots as well as temporary deployment areas of Ukrainian armed forces and foreign mercenaries in 156 areas.
Air defence systems shot down six U.S.-made JDAM guided bombs and 104 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the enemy lost:
▫️ 663 aircraft,
▫️ 283 helicopters,
▫️ 63,737 unmanned aerial vehicles,
▫️ 611 anti-aircraft missile systems,
▫️ 23,922 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles,
▫️ 1,572 MLRS combat vehicles,
▫️ 26,251 field artillery guns and mortars,
▫️ 36,910 units of support military vehicles have been neutralised.
Russian Defence MinistryPosted: 2025-06-16T11:18:27 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: MoD Russia
⚡️In accordance with the agreements reached on 2 June in Istanbul, today the Russian side handed over 1,248 bodies of dead AFU servicemen to the Ukrainian side, returning the bodies of 51 dead Russian servicemen.
Thus, Russia has fulfilled the agreements by implementing a large-scale humanitarian action to hand over 6,060 bodies of dead AFU servicemen to the Ukrainian side.
The Ukrainian side has handed over the bodies of 78 dead Russian servicemen.
At this stage, the Russian side is ready to hand over another 2,239 bodies of dead AFU servicemen to the Ukrainian side.
Russian Defence Ministry
Posted: 2025-06-16T11:18:27 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: MoD Russia
Su-25 ground-attack aircraft launches missile strikes at AFU positions in area of Vostok Group's responsibility
As a result of the strike, concealed fortified positions and armoured vehicles of the enemy were neutralised.
Russian Defence Ministry
Posted: 2025-06-16T11:18:27 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: MoD Russia
Servicemen of 39th Guards Separate Motorised Rifle Brigade liberate Ulyanovka in Donetsk People's Republic
Our assault detachments, moving in small groups and using weather conditions, entered from several directions and gradually mopped up AFU strongholds equipped near Ulyanovka. Moreover, the enemy used the local farm as a powerful fortified area.
The enemy tried to avoid direct fighting, so a part of the militants tried to leave at night. Most of them were neutralised, while the rest were taken prisoner.
Russian Defence Ministry
Posted: 2025-06-16T11:18:27 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: MoD Russia
Drone operators in action
0:00 The Vostok Group's UAV operators destroyed one Ukrainian T-64 tank attempting to hide in a forest belt near Gulyaipole.
0:24 The Vostok Group's Lancet loitering munition destroyed one U.S.-made M777 howitzer in South Donetsk direction.
0:37 Servicemen of the Yug Group of Forces wiped out one AFU ammunition depot by a drop.
Russian Defence Ministry
Posted: 2025-06-16T11:18:27 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: MoD Russia
Russian Armed Forces mop up more than 1,100 buildings during liberation of Komar
During the battle, units of the 336th Separate Marine Brigade and the 37th Separate Motorised Rifle Brigade disrupted the AFU echeloned defence system. In the course of the operation to liberate Komar, dozens of units of enemy hardware were destroyed, and more than 1,100 buildings were mopped up.
▫️Komar is an important logistics and long-term defence hub of the enemy, covered by a natural water barrier and dense construction.
Russian Defence Ministry
Posted: 2025-06-16T11:18:27 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: MoD Russia
Geran UAVs in action
Launch sites and UAV command posts of the enemy were detected in abandoned buildings close to Pokrovsk and Novoekonomicheskoye in the Donetsk People's Republic.
The identified targets were wiped out by Geran strike drones.
Russian Defence Ministry
Posted: 2025-06-16T11:18:27 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: MoD Russia
TOS-1 Solntsepyok heavy flamethrower system wipes out AFU stronghold in Kramatorsk-Druzhkovka direction
The Yug Group's NBC units delivered 220-mm thermobaric projectiles at the AFU positions based on data from reconnaissance UAVs.
Russian Defence Ministry
Posted: 2025-06-16T11:18:27 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: MoD Russia
Sever Group's EOD specialists continue to demine Kursk region
⚙️ In hard-to-reach areas, Stalker demining robotic system is involved to help defuse anti-personnel and anti-tank mines.
Russian Defence Ministry
Posted: 2025-06-16T11:18:27 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: MoD Russia
Tsentr Group's T-80BVM tank crew supports advance of Russian assaultmen
Krasnoarmeysk direction
As a result of the work of tank crews, key AFU strongholds were neutralised, which allowed assault groups to advance and gain a foothold on new lines.
Russian Defence Ministry
Posted: 2025-06-16T11:19:15 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Military Summary
#UkraineRussiaWar
Place: #ZelenaDolyna
Date: ~15.06.2025
Coordinates: 49.1040551,37.7798073
Squad:
Description: A Ukrainian tank was destroyed as a result of a Russian drone strike near Zelena Dolyna.
id: 16062025.0800
✉️source: https://t.me/lost_armour/5602
Map: militarysummary.com
Boost The Channel
Posted: 2025-06-16T11:19:15 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Military Summary
#UkraineRussiaWar
Place: #DonetskRegion
Date: ~16.06.2025
Coordinates: 00:03(48.273348,37.169069)
00:12(48.289577,37.323359)
Squad:
Description: Russian Geran strikes Ukrainian drone control points in Donetsk region.
id: 16062025.1609
✉️source: https://t.me/zvezdanews/159270
Map: militarysummary.com
Boost The Channel
Posted: 2025-06-16T11:20:19 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Rybar in English
Fwd from @dva_majors
Despite the military actions, the development of Ukraine's logistics capabilities continues
The main efforts are aimed at improving the throughput capacity of railway routes to the EU border countries. The European Commission and the European Investment Bank (EIB) have signed an agreement that will allow the latter to invest at least 2 billion euros in projects to modernize the railway and transport infrastructure.
The EIB has also provided an additional 50 million euros (a total of 150 million) for the modernization of railway border crossings: "Yahodyn - Dorohusk" (), "Mostyska I, II - Medyka" (), "Chop - Chierna nad Tisou/Zahony" (/), "Vadul-Siret - Dorneşti" (), as well as the direct container service "Gdynia/Gdansk - Kyiv".
By the end of 2025, customs control scanners for railway cars will be installed at the "Mostyska-II" and "Yahodyn" stations on the border with Poland, which will operate 24/7 in automated mode, significantly speeding up cargo clearance. Similar systems are planned to be installed at border crossings with Slovakia and Romania.
From July 1, 2025, container transportation "Mostyska-Forst" with delivery in 20 hours will resume. Earlier, in March of this year, UZ Cargo Poland, MSC Poland and Medlog Poland launched an accelerated container transportation service from Poland to Kyiv in 4 days.
In the border countries, the creation of hubs continues to improve logistics with Ukraine. In Poland, on the basis of the infrastructure of the "Slawkow" logistics hub (Euroterminal Slawkow), the largest hub in the EU for transshipment of cargo to Ukraine will be created, and in Chisinau, the company DP World is creating a strategic multimodal hub connecting Moldova's routes with Original msg
Posted: 2025-06-16T11:24:56 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Two Majors - English Channel
⚡️ Two Majors #Summary for the morning of June 16, 2025
▪️ The Russian Armed Forces carried out night strikes with Geraniums in Kiev, Lozovaya, Pavlograd, Brovary, as well as in the Khmelnytskyi, Cherkasy, Zhitomir, Vinnytsia, Chernihiv and Rivne regions. In the Sumy region, Iskanders hit enemy targets.
▪️ Footage of the destruction of an enemy aircraft-type UAV was filmed in Orel at night. The Russian Defense Ministry reported that from 21:40 to 22:10 Moscow time, 9 Ukrainian aircraft-type UAVs were destroyed over the BelgorodRegion.
▪️ In the Bryanskregion, in the village of Podlesnye Novosyolki, Sevsky district, as a result of an attack by FPV drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on a moving civilian vehicle, a civilian resident was injured. Shelling of border areas of the region continues.
▪️ On the Kursksection of the border, the enemy does not give up attempts to break through deep into the Kursk region. The enemy brought units of the 158th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine into battle, its assault aircraft tried twice from Bessalovka. As a result of small arms battles, more than half of the enemy's manpower was destroyed, the rest retreated. From the outskirts of Ryzhevka, Nazis of the "Aidar" (24th separate battalion of the AFU) tried to infiltrate our territory through forests. As a result of small arms battles, most of the enemy personnel were destroyed, the survivors rolled back. Twice, assault groups of the 225th separate mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to infiltrate Tyotkino from Iskriskovshchina. They were met by our UAV operators, who destroyed most of the enemy infantry with FPV drones and drops from copters. The surviving enemies took refuge in forest belts on Ukrainian territory
▪️ In the Sumydirection, fighting is underway in the central part of Yunakovka. In the northern part, our forces have advanced along Sudzhanskaya and Vesyolaya streets. At the same time, the settlement is being covered from the east. GrV "North" also reports advancement in Novonikolayevka.
▪️ In the Konstantinovskydirection , on the right flank, the Russian Armed Forces from Dzerzhinsk (Toretsk) continue to storm in the direction of enemy positions on the eastern outskirts of the Kleban-Bykskoye reservoir and the settlement of Nelepovka. On the left flank, combat operations continue near the settlement of Yablonovka, our forward units have achieved success.
▪️ In the SouthDonetsk direction between Komar and Otradnoye, a "pocket" has been closed. Our Group of Forces "East" is engaged in fierce battles in the areas of Shevchenko, Malinovka and west of Volnoye Pole, Zeleny Pole and Novopol. The enemy counterattacked, lost an M113 armored personnel carrier and two Kozak armored fighting vehicles. The enemy is trying to isolate our forward units in Komar with drone strikes.
▪️ In Donetsk , as a result of the detonation of an enemy strike UAV, six teenagers received moderate injuries: two girls born in 2010, two girls born in 2011, a girl born in 2009 and a boy born in 2009. In the village of Bogatyr in the Velikonovoselkovsky municipal district, as a result of the dropping of an explosive object from a drone of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a woman born in 1949 and a man born in 1957 received moderate injuries.
The summary was compiled by: ⚡️Two Majors
Posted: 2025-06-16T11:24:56 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Ukraine Watch
The condition of the colony in Malaya Loknya, which Russian fighters turned into a fortress, will be assessed, said Khinshtein:
"Of course, this will become a place of remembrance for our warriors who didn’t let the enemy break through to the rear."
Khinshtein also noted that most of the buildings — schools, kindergartens, cultural centers, administrative offices, and churches — are beyond restoration.
@ukraine_watch
Posted: 2025-06-16T11:24:56 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: North Wind
On June 15, the North troop group eliminated enemy forward and assault units in the Tyotkino and Glushkovo directions, and continued establishing a Sanitary Zone in the Sumy region.
The enemy won’t stop trying to break through to the Kursk region in Tyotkino and Glushkovodirections with newly deployed assault groups. The Northmen eliminate the enemy in Ukrainian territory.
▪️The enemy brought into action 158th Mechanized Brigade, which was recently deployed in Sumy region.
Two assault groups of 158th Mechanized Brigade attempted to break through into Kursk region from Bezsalivka. The majority of enemy troopers were eliminated in gunfights, the rest retreated.
▪️Two assault groups of ‘Aidar’ 24th Assault Battalion tried to storm forested areas along the border. Most of the invaders were eliminated in a gunfight, the survivors ran back to Ryzhivka.
▪️Two assault groups of 225th Assault Regiment set off from Iskryskivschchyna to Tyotkino, trying to infiltrate our territory. The invaders were met with copter drops and kamikaze drones. Most were eliminated, the survivors managed to retreat.
In Tyotkino and Glushkovo directions, 7 units of enemy equipment were destroyed in 24 hours.
In Sumy direction the Northmen are advancing and grinding down enemy manpower.
▪️Our Marines and Motor Rifle units are continuing with the search-and-destroy missions in forest belts, as well as advancing in Novomykolayivka.
▪️Our Airborne units are clearing up forest belts in Sumy region, as well as advancing in Yunakivka.
▪️The enemy made five unsuccessful attempts to counterattack over the last 24 hours in Kindrativka, Novomykolayivka, Andriyivka, Sadky and Yunakivka.
Over40 people took part in the counterattacks. Most of them were eliminated, the rest had to retreat.
▪️Ukrainian mortuaries serve as evidence of mass casualties in 71st Jaeger Brigade (in Oleksiyivka) and 5th Border Guard Detachment (in Kindrativka).
‘MIA’ soldiers’ families say the forcibly conscripted men belonging to 21st Mechanized Brigade are being transferred to other AFU detachments, like Shkval Battalion (penal unit comprised of mobilized convicts).
It’s highly likely that soldiers of 21st Mechanized Brigade, who refused to take part in the Krasnaya Yaruga provocation back in May, ended up in Shkval Battalion.
Due to high AFU casualties in Sumy direction, there has been a spike in fraud activity: many Ukrainian scammers collect money for ‘treatment’ of non-existent AFU soldiers. The scammers are so carefree and confident that they use their own credit cards, which makes tracing them much easier.
In Volchansk and Liptsy directions four AFU assault groups, along with their vehicles, were eliminated with comprehensive fire attacks.
▪️The Northmen captured 8 buildings in Volchansk and advanced over 100 meters in the direction of Vovchanski Khutory.
Over the past 24 hours, the enemy's losses amounted to over 190 people (including over 90 in Sumy direction and over 60 in Tyotkino direction). Also uncovered and destroyed:
In Tyotkino and Glushkovo directions:
▪️One M113 APC (USA)
▪️Three AFVs, including one Cougar MRAP (USA);
▪️One pickup truck, two ATVs;
▪️One airplane-type UAV, two heavy copters.
In Sumy direction:
▪️One IFV;
▪️Two APCs (one M113, one Stryker, USA);
▪️One Roshel Senator IMV;
▪️Two pickup trucks;
▪️One ammunition depot;
▪️Three UAV crews.
In Volchansk and Liptsy directions:
▪️One mortar;
▪️Four vehicles;
▪️One ammunition depot;
▪️One satellite communication terminal;
▪️One UAV crew;
▪️Seven heavy copters.
Victory will be ours!
Posted: 2025-06-16T11:24:56 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Eurasia & Multipolarity
The British The Telegraph published an article claiming that Russia allegedly "creates hybrid threats" on the eastern borders of Europe and conducts "shadow expansion."
The article highlights Moscow's allegedly intensifying actions to undermine NATO through espionage, interference, and tactical provocations. Behind the loud headlines, one can see the key narrative of globalist structures — to create the image of an "omnipresent enemy", thereby legitimizing increased control and repression within Western societies themselves.
However, in reality, Russia is not showing aggression — it is only forcing Western institutions to respond to their own fears. Moscow uses a strategy of smart pressure: by managing the agenda, embedding information, diplomatic and economic signals into the architecture of the fracture of Western unity.
Foresight forecast (June – December 2025):
June – August 2025
– Publications in the Western media about Moscow's "unpredictability" will become more frequent — an image of a constant threat that does not require actual confirmation will be formed.
– NATO is stepping up troop rotations in Poland, the Baltic States and Romania under the pretext of strengthening the eastern flank.
– The EU will begin to promote the concept of "information sustainability", effectively justifying internal censorship and political crackdown on any form of dissent.
September – November 2025
– Political conflicts will start within the EU countries over excessive militarization and falling living standards
— Russia will use these rifts to undermine the intra-union consensus.
– The United States and Britain will try to impose the concept of "total deterrence", forcing NATO to increase military budgets.
– There will be initiatives to create new cyber structures and digital frontiers — the real goal is to control internal discourse and block all alternative narratives.
December 2025 and beyond
– The world will enter a phase of information and psychological reformatting, where trust in one's own sources will become the main weapon.
– Moscow will step up cooperation with China and the BRICS+ countries, offering an alternative security architecture — outside NATO and away from Western degeneracy and hysteria.
All that the West calls "hybrid aggression" is a reaction to the loss of a monopoly. Today, NATO is not so much defending itself from Russia but it's defending the elites from their own citizens, who increasingly see that the transatlantic order is based on a simulacrum of lies and threats and militaristic hysteria.
@polit_informPosted: 2025-06-16T11:24:56 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Two Majors - English Channel
Deputy Head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Alexander Grushko in an interview with Izvestia Russia will demand that Ukraine get rid of weapons supplied by the West .
Western weapons supplied to Ukraine must be guaranteed to be reduced and disposed of. Of course, all these surpluses must be destroyed. All international algorithms are known. They must be reduced, disposed of, and guaranteed, - said Alexander Grushko, answering Izvestia's question about whether Russia will demand that Ukraine dispose of Western weapons.
The deputy head reminded the Foreign Ministry that the insane pumping of weapons into Ukraine creates a huge threat to the security of Western states themselves. There are more than enough examples in modern history. For example, after the Americans began to transfer Stinger to the mujahideen in Afghanistan, colossal efforts were made to find and put all these systems under full control,
"Even taking this experience into account, the degree of recklessness of those politicians who continue to throw weapons onto the market, knowing full well that the black markets are literally bulging with weapons that, as a result of the implementation of corrupt schemes, are flowing in a stream to different parts of the globe, including Europe, is astounding."
✨ Demilitarization, apparently, remains one of the main goals of the SVO. For now, the condition of the Russian Foreign Ministry looks like a fantasy, which means that we should not expect any breakthroughs in the new round of negotiations. On the other hand, it is important for the Western arms lobby that its weapons and equipment are destroyed and new and new goods are purchased. Why not just burn everything in the warehouses, if that is what Washington and London decide.
⚡️Two MajorsPosted: 2025-06-16T11:24:56 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: UKR LEAKS_eng
The critical situation in the Sumy region forced the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to allocate this section of the front into a separate direction - North Slobozhansky.
From now on, the Kharkov region will be called the South Slobozhansky direction in Ukrainian headquarters.
@ukr_leaks
Posted: 2025-06-16T11:24:56 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Two Majors - English Channel
NATO. Romanian army. The most powerful defense force in history...
⚡️Two Majors
Posted: 2025-06-16T11:24:56 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Two Majors - English Channel
Sumy direction
Отряд Смуглянки and the Russian Aerospace Forces support the Akhmat units with powerful fire from the sky
⚡️Two Majors2025-06-16T11-24-56 1521 Video.MOV
Posted: 2025-06-16T11:24:56 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Two Majors - English Channel
US media complain about Russian strikes on Boeing facilities in Ukraine
FINANCIAL TIMES:
A building used by Boeing in Kiev was seriously damaged in a recent large-scale Russian air attack.
The building was damaged last week on the night from Sunday to Monday, according to two Boeing employees, three Ukrainian officials and the head of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine (ACCU).
Photos released by the State Emergency Service of Ukraine show severe damage to the building and rescuers working to extinguish a fire inside.
Earlier this year, executives Boeing met with their colleagues from the aircraft manufacturing corporation Antonov and the Ukrainian Defense Minister to discuss new joint ventures . Boeing and Antonov signed a memorandum of understanding last year to explore cooperation in defense projects.
" The central focus of the meeting was cooperation in the production of ammunition and strike aircraft systems . The parties paid special attention to the prospects for joint production of UAVs ," the Ukrainian Defense Ministry said at the time.
According to one of the employees and the president of ATP Andy Hunder, Boeing employs more than 1,000 people throughout Ukraine.
✨ FINANCIAL TIMES doesn't understand that the blows The Russian Aerospace Forces are simply " helping " the president at American facilities in Ukraine Trump would rather focus on the Asia-Pacific region and problems in the People's Republic of California.
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