Russian Defence Ministry reports on the progress of the special military operation (15 April 2025)
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
In Belgorod direction, the Sever Group of Forces have engaged manpower and hardware of four mechanised brigades, a coastal defence brigade, an assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and a territorial defence brigade close to Miropolskoye, Malaya Rybitsa, Petrushevka, Krasnopolye, and Yamnoye (Sumy region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 90 troops, three armoured fighting vehicles, four motor vehicles, and four field artillery guns. Two ammunition depots and one materiel depot were eliminated.
Units of the Zapad Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions. Russian units engaged three mechanised brigades, an assault brigade of the AFU, a territorial defence brigade, and a national guard brigade close to Kamenka, Doroshovka, Radkovka, Moskovka, Podoly, Senkovo, Boguslavka, Novay Kruglyakovka (Kharkov region), Karpovka, Redkodub, Kirovsk, and Yampol (Donetsk People’s Republic).
The enemy has lost more than 250 troops, a UK-made Snatch armoured fighting vehicle, four motor vehicles, five NATO-made field artillery guns including two Polish-made 155-mm Krab self-propelled artillery system, a UK-made 155-mm Braveheart self-propelled artillery system, and a U.S.-made 155-mm M198 howitzer. Four electronic warfare stations and three ammunition depots were eliminated.
The Yug Group of Forces’ units improved the tactical situation. The Russian Armed Forces inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of three mechanised brigades, a mountain assault brigade of the AFU, two territorial defence brigades, and a national guard brigade close to Seversk, Minkovka, Markovo, Chasov Yar, Kurdyumovka, Ivanpolye, Yablonovka, Tarasovka, Ulyanovka, and Valentinovka (Donetsk People’s Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to more than 285 troops, a Swedish-made CV-90 infantry fighting vehicle, a M113 armoured personnel carrier, and a HMMWV armoured vehicle made in the USA.
Nine motor vehicles, ten field artillery guns including two UK-made 155-mm FH-70 howitzers and a U.S.-made Paladin self-propelled artillery system as well as five ammunition depots, two materiel depots, and a fuel depot were eliminated.
The Tsentr Group of Forces’ units took more advantageous lines and positions. Russian troops hit two mechanised brigades, an assault brigade, a jaeger brigade, an unmanned aerial vehicles brigade, an assault regiment of the AFU, and a national guard brigade near Lysovka, Zverevo, Kotlino, Udachnoye, Preobrazhenka, Bogdanovka, and Alekseyevka (Donetsk People’s Republic).
The enemy lost more than 335 troops, four armoured fighting vehicles including a U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carrier, and two U.S.-made HMMWV armoured vehicles, two pick-up trucks, and seven field artillery guns including a U.S.-made 155-mm Paladin and a Polish-made 155-mm Krab self-propelled artillery systems.
Units of the Vostok Group of Forces continued advancing into the depth of enemy defences. Russian forces damaged manpower and hardware of a mechanised brigade, an airmobile brigade, an air assault brigade, and a territorial defence brigade near Bogatyr, Otradnoye, Burlatskoye, and Shevchenko (Donetsk People’s Republic).
The enemy’s losses amounted to up to 155 troops, two armoured vehicles, a pick-up truck, and two field artillery guns including a U.S.-made 155-mm Paladin self-propelled artillery system.
The Dnepr Group of Forces’ units improved the tactical situation. Russian formations engaged a mechanised brigade, a mountain assault brigade, two coastal defence brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and two territorial defence brigades near Novodanilovka, Stepnogorsk (Zaporozhye region), Tokarevka, Sadovoye, Antonovka, and Dneprovskoye (Kherson region).
Up to 100 troops, nine motor vehicles, three artillery guns, two electronic warfare stations, a U.S.-made AN/TPQ-50 counter-fire radar, and three ammunition depots were neutralised.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack unmanned aerial vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have engaged the infrastructure of a military airfield, assembly facilities for MLRS and strike drones, a drone training center as well as temporary deployment areas of the Ukrainian armed formations in 144 areas.
Russian air defence means have shot down four U.S.-made JDAM guided aerial bombs and five HIMARS MLRS projectiles during the day as well as 304 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 661 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 51,866 unmanned aerial vehicles, 601 anti-aircraft missile systems, 22,846 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,536 MLRS combat vehicles, 23,667 field artillery guns and mortars, and 34,127 units of support military vehicles have been neutralised.
