▫️ At night, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation delivered a group strike by air-, ground-, and sea-based precision weapons and attack drones at infrastructure of a military airfield and a facility of the fuel-energy complex, which provides fuel for the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Donbas. The goal of the strike was achieved. All the assigned targets were engaged.
Posted: 2025-06-22T12:45:17 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: MoD Russia
▫️Units of the Vostok Group of Forces continued advancing to the depth of the enemy's defences and, as a result of decisive actions, liberated Zaporozhye (Donetsk People's Republic).
▫️The Russian Defence Ministry shows UAV operators and repairmen in action.
▫️Servicemen of the Tsentr and Dnepr groups of forces practice assaults on AFU fortifications at training grounds in a rear area of the special military operation zone.
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Russian Defence Ministry
Posted: 2025-06-22T12:45:17 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: MoD Russia
Vostok Group's Strela-10 SAM system crew detects and destroys enemy reconnaissance UAVs
South Donetsk direction
Several targets entered the zone of the system's combat use, namely Furia, Leleka-100, and Valkyrie UAVs, which were simultaneously destroyed by the Strela-10 crew.
Russian Defence Ministry
Posted: 2025-06-22T12:45:17 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: MoD Russia
⚡️As a result of active and decisive actions by the Zapad Group of Forces' units, Petrovskoye (Kharkov region) was liberated.
Russian Defence MinistryPosted: 2025-06-22T12:45:17 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: MoD Russia
⚡️Units of the Vostok Group of Forces continued to advance into the depths of the enemy's defence, and, as a result of successful actions, completed the liberation of Perebudova (Donetsk People's Republic).
Russian Defence MinistryPosted: 2025-06-22T12:45:17 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: MoD Russia
by Russian Defence Ministry on progress of special military operationas of 22 June 2025
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
Units of the Sever Group of Forces improved their position along the front line, hit clusters of manpower and hardware of five mechanised brigades, one air assault brigade, one air assault regiment, four assault regiments of the AFU, one territorial defence brigade, and the Chimera Special Operations Detachment of the Ukrainian Main Directorate of Intelligence close to Pavlovka, Andreyevka, Khoten, Zapselye, and Novaya Sech, Yablonovka, Bessalovka, Kondratovka, Sadky, and Ryzhevka (Sumy region).
▪️ The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 240 troops, three armored fighting vehicles, three motor vehicles, four field artillery guns, one electronic warfare station, and one materiel depot.
As a result of active and decisive actions of the Zapad Group of Forces' units, Petrovskoye (Kharkov region) was liberated.
Units of the Zapad Group of Forceshit formations of two mechanised brigades of the AFU, one territorial defence brigade, and one border detachment of the Ukrainian State Border Guard Service near Gorokhovatka, Novaya Kruglyakovka, Peschanoye, Kupyansk (Kharkov region), and Kirovsk (Donetsk People's Republic).
▪️The enemy lost up to 210 troops, one U.S.-made M113 armored personnel carrier, six pickup trucks, four electronic warfare stations, and three ammunition depots.
Units of the Yug Group of Forces have improved their tactical situation. Losses were inflicted on manpower and hardware of four mechanised brigades, one motorised infantry brigade, one mountain assault brigade, one assault brigade, and one airmobile brigade of the AFU, one territorial defence brigade, and the Azov Special Operations Brigade close to Seversk, Slavyansk, Kaleniki, Semyonovka, Belokuzminovka, Ilyinovka, Dyleyevka, Kramatorsk, Kleban-Byk, and Konstantinovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
▪️The AFU losses were more than 140 troops, one armored fighting vehicle, one artillery gun, and five motor vehicles. Three ammunition depots and one material depot were destroyed.
Units of the Tsentr Group of Forces have taken advantageous positions. Formations of eight mechanised brigades, one mountain assault brigade, one assault brigade, two air assault brigades, one UAV brigade of the AFU, two marine brigades, and one national guard brigade were hit close to Petrovskogo, Dachnoye, Novopavlovka, Lenina, Krasnoarmeysk, and Novotoretskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
▪️The enemy's losses amounted to more than 500 troops, twoKozak armored vehicles, three pickup trucks, and four field artillery guns, including one UK-made 155-mm AS-90 self-propelled artillery system.
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Russian Defence Ministry
Posted: 2025-06-22T12:45:17 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: MoD Russia
by Russian Defence Ministry on progress of special military operationas of 22 June 2025
Part 2 ( see Part 1)
Units of the Vostok Group of Forces continued to advance into the depths of the enemy's defence and, as a result of successful actions, completed the liberation of Perebudova (Donetsk People's Republic).
Manpower and hardware of one mechanised brigade, one assault regiment of the AFU, and one marine brigade were hit near Novokhatskoye, Zeleny Gai, and Chervonaya Zirka (Donetsk People's Republic).
▪️ The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost up to 195 troops, two armored fighting vehicles, five motor vehicles, and two artillery guns.
Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces hit formations of one mechanised brigade, one coastal defence brigade of the AFU, and one territorial defence brigade close to Stepnogorsk, Kamenskoye, Malaya Tokmachka (Zaporozhye region), and Antonovka (Kherson region).
▪️Up to 70 troops, nine motor vehicles, four electronic warfare stations, three ammunition depots, and two material depots were eliminated.
✈️ Operational-Tactical Aviation, strike unmanned aerial vehicles, and Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces struck the infrastructure of a military airfield, workshops for the production and assembly of strike UAVs, UAV depots, ammunition and fuel depots as well as temporary deployment areas of AFU units and foreign mercenaries in 143 areas.
Air defence systems shot down six JDAM guided aerial bombs, two U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles as well as 164 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the enemy lost:
663 aircraft,
283 helicopters,
64,846 unmanned aerial vehicles,
611 anti-aircraft missile systems,
24,006 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles,
1,572 MLRS combat vehicles,
26,486 field artillery guns and mortars,
37,138 units of support military vehicles have been neutralised.
Russian Defence Ministry
Posted: 2025-06-22T12:45:17 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Kremlin. News
On the 84th anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, Vladimir Putin paid tribute to those who fell while fighting against the Nazi invaders by laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin wall
The President also laid flowers at the memorials honoring the Hero Cities and the Cities of Military Glory.
Posted: 2025-06-22T12:45:17 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: MoD Russia
Servicemen of the Vostok Group of Forces liberated Perebudova in the Donetsk People's Republic in less than 3 days.
Having crossed the river, assaultmen set up Russian flags on the west bank and created a foothold for further offensive. The enemy suffered losses in manpower and hardware.
Russian Defence Ministry
Posted: 2025-06-22T12:45:17 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: MoD Russia
The Vostok Group's FPV drone teams hit UAV command posts of the enemy close to Yalta (Donetsk People’s Republic).
Russian Defence Ministry
Posted: 2025-06-22T12:45:17 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: MoD Russia
Vostok Group's units undergo engineer drills in South Donetsk direction
Assault units of the 29th Army train to demine explosive objects, including foreign-made mines, and to install minefields in areas where tanks are actively used. Practical drills are conducted under the guidance of experienced instructors.
Russian Defence Ministry
Posted: 2025-06-22T12:45:17 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: MoD Russia
New Russian station for satellite communication in action in special military operation zone
Communications specialists of the 144th Motorised Rifle Division (Zapad Group pf Forces) started using new Spirit-030 satellite communication stations.
Servicemen note that the new station is significantly smaller, easier to use, and has a better signal quality. Due to the reduced size of the antenna, the station can be placed closer to the front line, reducing the risk of detection.
Russian Defence Ministry
Posted: 2025-06-22T12:45:17 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: MoD Russia
Iskander-M operational-tactical missile system crew in action
The Russian Armed Forces detected and launched a missile strike at the AFU training ground near Davydov Brod (Kherson region) at the time of the largest concentration of AFU troops.
As a result of the missile strike, more than 10 vehicles were destroyed. The losses in manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine exceeded 70 people. An air defenсe crew with one Taran-type interceptor drone covering the training ground was also destroyed.
Russian Defence Ministry
Posted: 2025-06-22T12:46:55 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Two Majors - English Channel
⚡️ Two Majors #Weekly #Summary for the morning of June 22, 2025
▪️ On the Day of Remembrance and Sorrow, associations with the Great Patriotic War are increasingly diverging, the fourth year of this war, different and strange, was underway. The unspoken concept of Russia as “warring” and “peaceful” fulfills its function of maintaining social and economic stability, while introducing a certain dissonance between the frontline stretching for more than 1 thousand km and the seemingly peaceful life of the rest of the country, where enemy UAVs occasionally fly.
On the other hand, the total militarization of society has already driven the former Ukrainian SSR crazy, and the same economic formation in our enemy allows us to assume what could happen to our country on a similar scale, of course.
▪️ This week, the attention of the "progressive world" has completely shifted to the aggression of Israel and the United States against Iran. The ultra-Orthodox in Israel have successfully tried to drag the power of the United States into the conflict at any cost, and the divided elites of the United States have had difficulty finding a common solution. Trump, while whipping up nuclear hysteria in the media, certainly does not forget to make profits on **promotion blocked**, as befits a trader.
All that's left for the collective Zelensky to do now is to pull off a completely wild provocation to get attention back. Anti-aircraft missiles have already begun to float past Kiev to Trump's beloved Israel.
▪️ The Russian Army's summer offensive campaign is proceeding as usual. A number of directions are being successfully, albeit not rapidly, broken through, but the enemy also maintains high combat stability and conducts an organized defensive operation.
Our troops are moving towards Sumy, taking village after village, while the AFU have been keeping the Tetkinsky salient under pressure for over a month and counterattacking from near Sumy. The Russian Armed Forces are breaking through in the Konstantinovsky direction, the enemy is holding back the onslaught near Stupochki. We are breaking through Komar to the Dnipropetrovsk region, the enemy is digging new positions and exchanging territory and mobilization resources for time. Zelensky said directly that he is going to wait for a change in the political winds and new supplies. Our troops, apparently, are counting on exhausting the enemy and turning his tactical crises into operational ones, and then into real failures of the AFU front.
It is impossible not to note the increase in the effectiveness of our long-range weapons; we wait for the realization of the enemy’s predictions regarding a decisive increase in the number of the “Geraniums” in the Ukrainian skies.
▪️ Nevertheless, one should not expect a sharp change in the situation in the summer, so as not to get upset later. Everything depends on the foreign policy situation and the ability of the West to continue spending on Anti-Russia. And in particular on the European continent, it is developing in such a way that the top of the EU and London hope to solve their economic and domestic political problems by accelerating the military economy and military hysteria, again of an anti-Russian nature.
It is important to note that this locomotive is dragging EU countries into further militarization: civil society is also being prepared for a long and bloody war. Mobilization legislation is being prepared, the dust has been blown off the analogues of civil defense, beds are being prepared in civilian hospitals to receive wounded soldiers, and someone is even developing a network of bunkers. Of course, this is the work of the arms lobby and it leads to the exhaustion of European economies and their Ukrainization. But the same process in Ukraine is known to have ended.
The summary was compiled by: ⚡️ Two MajorsPosted: 2025-06-22T12:48:06 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Rybar in English
Fwd from @dva_majors
Morning Summary as of June 21, 2025
▪️ Overnight, the enemy detected over a hundred of our strike UAVs, striking Odesa, Kryvyi Rih, and Kremenchuk (the enemy claims they hit an energy infrastructure object). Enemy air defenses also recorded "Iskanders" and hypersonic "Kinzhals" over Kremenchuk, with our forces conducting a combined strike.
▪️ The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that from 10 PM to 11:55 PM, 23 Ukrainian UAVs were destroyed over the Belgorod, Kursk, and Voronezh Regions. In the Voronezh Region, several more enemy aircraft-type UAVs were shot down in the dead of night.
▪️ On the Kursksector of the border, the enemy continues to daily send assault groups towards the Tyotkinskiy and Glushkovsky directions. With a persistence worthy of more reasonable application, the AFU daily sends assault troops from Ryzhevka, Bessalovka, Pavlovka. Enemy infantry groups have been destroyed daily by drone strikes, artillery, and small arms for over a month.
▪️ In the Sumydirection, the enemy is conducting counterattacks, with heavy fighting, but the AFU is unable to change the line of contact. Fierce battles are ongoing in Yunakivka.
▪️ In the Kharkivdirection, the meat grinder continues on the Volchansk and Liptsovo sectors of the front. Our forces destroyed eight AFU assault groups along with armored and automotive equipment. The "North" Operational Group reports on 25 cleared houses in Volchansk and our assault actions in the Volchansk Khutory villages.
▪️ In the BelgorodRegion, on the Novoaleksandrovka - Stanovoye road, a moving passenger car was attacked by an enemy drone, injuring a family. Nizhneye Berezovo-Vtoroye, Novaya Tavolzhanka, Lozovoye, and Oktyabr'skiy were under strikes.
▪️ In the Konstantinovkadirection, the 33rd Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 20th Guards Motorized Rifle Division is assaulting Yablonovka. Our forces advanced widely along the forest belts west of Yablonovka over a large area, attacking east of Zaria, straightening the front.
▪️ The encirclement of Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeisk) from the east continues. Our forces are advancing in the Koptevo area, conducting assault actions towards Novotroitskoye, in the Mirnoye area, straightening the front. Southwest of Pokrovsk, heavy battles continue at Kotlino, Udachnoye, in the Novosergeyevka area.
▪️ In the South Donetsk direction, the 5th Army of the "East" Grouping is destroying enemy strongholds west of Vesele. The situation for the AFU in Shevchenko is getting worse, according to our grouping. In the 36th Army's area of responsibility, there is our advance along the forest belts southwest of Malinivka. The enemy tried to reinforce the AFU in Perebudova from the direction of Karla Marksa (Mirnoye), but was hit by our fire. The Russian Armed Forces are advancing north of Komar and west of Fedorivka.
▪️ On the Zaporizhiafront, our forces are advancing in Malinivka (15 km east of Hulyaipole). The enemy acknowledges the advance Original msgPosted: 2025-06-22T12:48:52 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Rybar in English
Fwd from @dva_majors
Overview Summary as of June 22, 2025
▪️ Associations with the Great Patriotic War are diverging - this is the fourth year of a different war. Russia's "fighting" and "peaceful" concept preserves stability, while the 1,000 km front contrasts with seemingly peaceful life.
The militarization of Ukraine has driven it insane, foreshadowing what could happen in Russia. Perhaps Upper Lars still has scooters.
▪️ Attention shifted to Israel-US aggression against Iran. Ultra-Orthodox Israelis dragged the US in, while divided US elites struggled for a solution. Trump fuels nuclear hysteria for profit.
Zelenskyy may provoke to regain attention, as air defense missiles drift to Israel.
▪️ Russia's summer offensive progresses, with mixed results. Advances towards Sumy, Konstantinovka, and Dnipropetrovsk, but enemy maintains stability. Zelenskyy waits for political shifts and new arms.
Russia bets on enemy exhaustion, as long-range strikes increase.
▪️ Expect no sharp changes this summer. Everything depends on the West's willingness to fund anti-Russia. EU militarization prepares civil society for a long war, exhausting economies, mirroring Ukraine.
Summary by: Two Majors Original msg
