Ukraine has now entered a fierce stage of war against Russian invasion. Russians are advancing on every front, while building three defence lines on the occupied territories in the South.
Although the global support of Ukraine is obvious, it’s military needs are not fully satisfied. Ukraine still desperately neads heavy weaponry, especially MLRSs to liberate its cities.#ArmUkraineNOW #StandWithUkraine #UkraineWillWin
Total losses of Russian forces (02.24 - 06.25)
217 Aircraft
184 Helicopters
1,511 tanks
3,645 APVs
764 artillery systems
241 MLRS units
99 anti-aircraft defence systems
2,553 vehicles and fuel tanks
622 UAVs
60 units of special equipment
14 sea vessels
137 cruise missiles
human casualties:
~139,800 total
~34,700 killed
~104,100 wounded
~1,000 prisoners of war
Source: ArmyInform
Russia tries to involve Belarus in the war by strikes from its territory
The missile strikes from the territory of Belarus are Russia's large-scale provocation aimed at further drawing the country into the war against Ukraine, says Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence.
On the night of June 25, a massive missile and bomb strike was launched on the territory of Ukraine. In particular, Russian bombers operated directly from the territory of Belarus, the intelligence service said.
"Six Tu-22M3 aircraft were used for this purpose, which launched 12 X-22 cruise missiles. The launch range was the area of the Petrykov town, not far from Mozyr, approximately 50-60 kilometers from the state border of Ukraine. The bombers took off from "Shaykovka" airport in the Kaluga region of Russia. Then, through the territory of the Kaluga and Smolensk regions, they entered the airspace of Belarus. After the missiles were launched, they returned to Shaykovka airport on the Russian territory. The strikes were launched against Kyiv, Chernihiv, and Sumy regions," report says.
Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence emphasized that this was the first case of an air strike on Ukraine directly from the territory of Belarus. "Today's shelling is directly related to attempts of the Kremlin authorities to draw Belarus into the war in Ukraine as a direct participant," Defenсe Intelligence suggests.
A day earlier, Ukrainian intelligence warned of Russia preparing terrorist attacks in the Belarusian city of Mozyr. According to the State Intelligence Service, Russian sabotage groups arrived there for this purpose, planning to blow up houses, a school and a hospital in the city.
Possible provocations could be presented as Ukraine's response to the air strikes, the intelligence service supposes. They also noted that Belarusian officers were aware of this, so they started evacuating their families from Mozyr.
Source: Defence Intelligence
Ukraine suffered over 50 missile strikes of different types overnight
"On the night of June 25, Russian troops launched a massive missile strike on the territory of Ukraine. In total, more than fifty missiles of different types were launched: air-, sea-, and ground-based," as reported by Ukrainian Air Force Command.
It is emphasized that the enemy used Tu-22M3 long-range bombers against Ukraine from the territory of Belarus for the first time, as well as resumed the use of Iskander operational-tactical complexes from the territory of this country.
"Sea-based Kalibr cruise missiles were mainly aimed at targets in the west of Ukraine. In the northern direction, the enemy used X-22M3 missiles from Tu-22M3 aircraft, as well as land-based missiles from operational-tactical complexes - "Iskander" and "Tochka"-B."
In the southern direction, the occupiers used Onyx missiles of the Bastion coastal defence missile system.
The command noted that the Kh-22, Onyx and Iskander missiles are "extremely difficult targets" for the air defense systems operated by the Ukrainian Air Force.
"The speed of Onyx and X-22 missiles is more than 3,000 km/hour. And the Iskander missiles follow a ballistic trajectory. Their defeat is an atypical and extremely difficult task for the air defense systems available in Ukraine," the report says.
The Air Force recalled that some of the Russian missiles were shot down by the AFU air defense system.
Source: Air Force Command
Russia used oil rigs in the Black Sea to protect its ships from the Ukrainian complex "Neptune”
Russia has deployed its electronic warfare stations on Ukrainian drilling rigs seized in 2014, according to the Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov Russian EW stations were to protect their warships from guidance by the Ukrainian anti-ship missile system R-360 Neptune so that it could not reach them with its systems and detect them, the minister explained.
“Why did they matter so much? Not only did they steal our gas, not only were they stolen in Ukraine in 2014, the Russians placed their electronic warfare stations on them,” Reznikov said.
In response to a request to confirm the Ukrainian side's strike on the platforms, the Defence Minister said: "Everyone sees - space [satellite images] - come in and take a look, they are on fire. I am amazed at what to confirm," Oleksiy Reznikov said.
Source: Mil.in.ua
The AFU stopped an enemy assault group in the Kharkiv region
Ukrainian soldiers decisively suppressed the enemy assault group advance near the village of Udy and forced it to retreat.
This is stated in the operational information of the AFU General Staff as of 6:00 on June 25 on Facebook.
“In the Kharkiv direction, Russians focus on holding previously occupied positions. They launched artillery shelling at elements of infrastructure in the areas of Kharkiv city and Vialivske water reservoir”
Our soldiers decisively suppressed the actions of the enemy assault group near the settlement of Udy and forced them to retreat. There were airstrikes from Ka-52 helicopters in the area of Yavirske settlement.
Souce: General Staff; Nathan Ruser
The AFU Air Forces hit the invaders in the South
Ukrainian fighter aircraft and helicopters struck concentration of Russian occupiers near Snihurivka and Oleksandrivka on the border of the Mykolayiv region.
This is reported by the Operational Command "South".
As a result, the enemy's confirmed losses for the day are 46 Russians, a 152 mm field gun "Giatsint", 2 T-72 tanks and 7 other armored vehicles.
Source: Operational Command "South"; Institute for the Study of War
Explosions in the occupied Svatove, Luhansk region: supposedly Russian ammo storages
Explosions reported in the temporary occupied Svatove, Luhansk region. According to the locals’ posts on social media, it was the detonation of Russian ammo storages.
The explosions were heard in the night of June 24th, then a pile of dense black smoke arised, accompanied by the cannonade south.
The Head of Luhansk Regional Military Administration published an eyewitnesses’ video, commenting: ”Bloggers reports explosions on military storages in occupied Svatove.”
Source: Head of Luhansk Regional Military Administration
Ukraine and France denied Russian reports of a captured CAESAR self-propelled howitzers
The General Staff of the French Armed Forces claimed the information about Russia seizing the CAESAR self-propelled artillery units to be fake.
This was reported by the response of the French Armed Forces General Staff
Information about the alleged seizure of self-propelled artillery units was reported by French politician Regis Castelno in the Telegram, as well as Uralvagonzavod, who asked in comments to convey "thanks to President Macron."
He doesn't give any confirmation or evidence and cites only a comment on his Telegram channel, allegedly left by representatives of the Russian plant. Moreover, this information is not even confirmed by the "aggressor's ministry of attack".
This is proof that supplying weapons to Ukraine hits our enemy hard so he tries to sow mistrust among the French about the AFU and create the impression that it is useless to send weapons to our country.
Source: Ukrinform, Ukrainian government-owned media; TASS, Russian government-owned media
Occupiers launched 20 rockets on the Zhytomyr region: military bases were attacked
Russian occupiers attacked military bases and other objects in the city of Zhytomyr. In total, they launched 24 rockets.
This was reported on Facebook by the city’s mayor Serhii Sukhomlyn.
There were no reports regarding casualties and damaged equipment.
Zhytomyr governor Vitalii Bunechko reported that anti-air defense shot down around 10 rockets that were targeting the infrastructure of the region.
Source: Head of Zhytomyr Regional Military Administration; Zhytomyr City Mayor
6 Russian missile strikes on Lviv region: a military base was attacked
Rockets were launched from the Black Sea.
On the night of the 25th of June, Russians struck the Yavorivskiy community of the Lviv region.
This was reported by the head of the Lviv Regional Military Administration Maksym Kozytskyi during his video address. As a result of the strike - 4 people were wounded, one with moderate severity, and 3 with light severity. Fires were taken under control.
Two of the six rockets were shot down by the Ukrainian anti-air defense systems.
Source: Center for Strategic Communication
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