'Our job is to do what others cannot'

▫️ Special forces units of the Ivanovo Guards Airborne Formation (Dnepr Group of Forces) operate in the deep rear of the enemy in Zaporozhye region, destroying enemy headquarters, ammunition depots, communication centres, and command posts.

📊 In high activity of reconnaissance and strike drones, the SF conduct thorough planning of operations and use perfect camouflage.

🎮 The servicemembers rely not only on classic ambushes, raids, and sabotages, but also employ modern technologies to engage targets comprising FPV drones, thermal imaging cameras, and electronic warfare systems.

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👊 Combo from Rubikon: drones wiped out enemy hardware.

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🤝 Detection and neutralisation

Personnel of the Rubikon Centre identified hostile UAV posts, and the Russian Aerospace Forces laid waste to them.

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True to oath and duty

🩺 Medics more often sign special contracts to carry out tasks in the special military operation zone. With extensive experience, they arrive to save wounded soldiers.

▫️ Today, personnel operates around the clock, and equipment allows to perform surgery and stabilise the servicemen.

✅ More servicemen are saved due to that qualified medics are close to the line of contact.

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Blood and sweat ▫️

For their courage, professionalism, and success in Krasny Liman direction, artillerymen of the 25th Combined Arms Army (Zapad Group of Forces) were presented with state awards.

Way to go! Keep on fighting 🤝

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Punching above his weight: Bogomol UGV evacuates hardware under fire

🎮 Servicemen of a repair unit from Tsentr Group of Forces employed a Bogomol UGV to pull out hit vehicles from the front line.

💬 Deputy Commander of a repair platoon Sergei Terentiyev tells about the evacuation:

'We were tasked with evacuation of materiel. The command decided to deploy a UGV. We went to the task, we did it perfectly.'

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📆 Top News Today

🔥 Neither ports nor crafts: the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out strikes using unmanned aerial vehicles against Ukraine’s port infrastructure and vessels operating in the interests of the AFU.

💥 Detection and neutralisation: personnel of the Rubikon Centre identified hostile UAV posts, and the Russian Aerospace Forces laid waste to them.

🎮 Raid of Varyag against enemy positions: elements of a communication system, cover positions, and temporary deployment areas of manpower were damaged.

▫️ Punching above his weight: a Bogomol UGV evacuated hardware under fire.

▫️ Blood and sweat: artillerymen of the Zapad Group of Forces were presented with state awards.

⚓️ Corvette Grozny becomes fifth diamond of Pacific Fleet: a ceremonial launch of the Project 20380 corvette Grozny took place at the OJSC Amur Shipbuilding Plant. This is already the fifth serial-production vessel built for the Pacific Fleet to a design developed by designers of the Almaz Central Marine Design Bureau.

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Enemy’s positions sealed off in the ground

💥 The Yuzhnaya Group's Giatsint‑B artillery crews destroyed three shelters along with AFU personnel in Druzhkovka.

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❗️Last night, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continued to carry out strikes using unmanned aerial vehicles against logistics centres and facilities of Ukraine’s port infrastructure, as well as vessels used in the interests of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

💥 As a result of the strikes, the following facilities in Kharkov were hit:

▫️the Epicentr logistics centre, where dual‑use products are stored to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine;
▫️a distribution centre that provides storage and distribution for military and dual‑use cargo for the Armed Forces of Ukraine;
▫️the Vasishchevo logistics terminal, used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to store military equipment and dual‑use products.

🔥In addition, a dry cargo ship that was delivering supplies to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine to the port of Chernomorsk was damaged at sea.

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Intercepting enemy in air

🎮FPV interceptors of the Unmanned Systems Forces' units of the Zapad Group of Forces wiped out the enemy's UAVs in the air.

📍Kharkov region

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🚫 Isolated, trapped, eliminated

Servicemen of the 15th Guards Separate Motorised Rifle Brigade and 1437th Motorised Rifle (Assault) Regiment spoke about how the enemy's defences were broken in Sergeyevka.

❌ After cutting off supply routes of the militants and depriving them of the ability to use firepower, Russian servicemen began to accumulate manpower for the assault.

▫️ The guys, acting in small groups, crossed an open terrain, rivers, swamps and a barbed wire under the cover of 'eyes' in the sky. Reconnaissance drones adjusted assault detachments, warning about the danger in time.

💥 During the assault of Sergeyevka, the tactics of total suppression of the enemy's firepower using UAVs, artillery, and aviation were used. The enemy could not withstand such pressure: he dropped his weapon, left his dugouts, and ran away.

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Opened up like a tin can

🔥Artillerymen of the Vostok Group of Forces smashed the enemy's UAV command posts.

📍Zaporozhye region

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The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.

📍Units of the Sever Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions. The Group's units inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of a mechanised brigade, a motorised infantry brigade, and an airmobile brigade of the AFU close to Rubezhnoye, Metallovka, and Berezhnoye in Kharkov region.

💥 In Sumy region, formations of three mechanised brigades of the AFU were hit near Khoten, Ivolzhanskoye, and Nikolskoye (Sumy region).

▪️The enemy lost more than 165 troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, eight motor vehicles, and one radar station.

📍The Zapad Group of Forces improved the situation along the front line. Russian troops inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of two mechanised brigades of the AFU and a territorial defence brigade near Rubtsy, Raygorodok (Donetsk People's Republic) and Chervony Oskol (Kharkov region).

▪️The AFU losses amounted to more than 230 troops, three armoured fighting vehicles, 21 motor vehicles, two artillery guns, and three electronic warfare stations.

📍Units of the Yuzhnaya Group of Forces improved the tactical situation. The Groups' units inflicted losses on formations of two mechanised brigades, a mountain assault brigade of the AFU, and a marine brigade near Kramatorsk, Slavyansk, Cherevkovka, and Druzhkovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.

▪️The enemy lost up to 165 troops, five armoured fighting vehicles, 24 motor vehicles, and three artillery guns.

📍The Tsentr Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions. Russian elements engaged manpower and hardware of three mechanised brigades, an assault brigade, an assault regiment of the AFU, a marine brigade, and three national guard brigades near Krivorozhye, Belozerskoye, Novopavlovka, Varvarovka, Novodonetskoye, Malotaranovka, Krinitsy, and Starovarvarovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.

▪️The AFU losses amounted to more than 345 troops, five armoured fighting vehicles, 10 motor vehicles, one artillery gun, and one electronic warfare station.

👉 See Part 2

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🎖🎖 by Russian Defence Ministry on progress of special military operation as of 25 October 2026

Part 2 (👉 see Part 1)

↗️The Vostok Group's units advanced to the depth of the enemy's defence. The Group's units inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of two air assault brigades, an assault brigade, two assault regiments of the AFU, and a marine brigade close to Ivanovka, Fedorovskoye, Kolomiytsy, Pokrovskoye (Dnepropetrovsk region), Vasinovka, Volnyanka, and Novonikolaevka (Zaporozhye region).

▪️The AFU losses amounted to up to 200 troops, five armoured fighting vehicles, and three motor vehicles.

💥 The Dnepr Group of Forces improved the tactical situation. Formations of a mechanised brigade and a mountain assault brigade of the AFU were hit near Kirovo and Orekhov of Zaporozhye region.

▪️Up to 40 troops, 19 motor vehicles, one counter-fire station, and three electronic warfare stations of the enemy were neutralised.

✈️ Operational-tactical aviation, attack drones, missile troops and artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces inflicted damage on energy and transport infrastructure facilities used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, depots and launch sites of long-range unmanned aerial vehicles, temporary deployment areas of Ukrainian armed formations and foreign mercenaries in 159 areas.

▫️Air defence systems shot down 1,072 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.

📊 In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the enemy has lost:

▫️ 674 aircraft,
▫️ 284 helicopters,
▫️ 271,197 unmanned aerial vehicles,
▫️ 672 anti-aircraft missile systems,
▫️ 31,400 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles,
▫️ 1,792 MLRS fighting vehicles,
▫️ 36,813 field artillery guns and mortars,
▫️ 75,559 support military vehicles.

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💥 Enemy bridge demolition

The Unmanned Systems Forces' specialists hit a cable-stayed bridge near Zaporozhye.

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👊 Sent to bottom

Geran UAV operators destroyed the enemy's FPV drone-mother vehicle. Another uncrewed surface vehicle was neutralised by a Su-30SM2 fighter jet.

📍Black Sea waters

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We see everyone and never miss

💥 The Vostok Group's attack UAV operators eliminated AFU manpower in Zaporozhye region.

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Thanks for your work, lads! 🤝

▫️ In the special military operation zone, servicemen of the 400th Guards Self-propelled Artillery Regiment of the 90th Guards Tank Division of the Tsentr Group of Forces were presented with awards.

💬 A regiment commander congratulated the servicemen and noted their courage, professionalism and selflessness in carrying out combat missions.

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Tsentr Group's guards break AFU resistance and take prisoners in close combat

▫️ Servicemen of an assault detachment of the 80th Guards Tank Regiment (90th Guards Tank Division, Tsentr Group of Forces) captured several AFU servicemen in Dnepropetrovsk direction of the special military operation.

▫️ During a combat mission, the assault detachments detect the enemy's camouflaged positions with manpower and destroy them both from the air with FPV drones and in direct contact at the positions with fire from organic weapons.

❗️Before destroying the enemy, Russian servicemen always offer Ukrainian soldiers the choice to surrender voluntarily. The stormers try to take the captured servicemen to their unit, keeping them alive even under the strikes of AFU drones.

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❗️Today, during the day, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continued to carry out strikes with unmanned aerial vehicles against vessels used to support the AFU.

💥 A dry cargo ship carrying supplies for the AFU was hit.

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