Department of Research, Studies and International News 08-02-2025

Ukraine’s daily losses in the area of responsibility of the Battlegroup Center amounted to up to 560 military personnel

Russian air defenses shot down a HIMARS rocket and 93 fixed-wing drones in the past day, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

“Air defense systems shot down a US-made HIMARS rocket and 93 fixed-wing UAVs,” the agency said.

Battlegroup South

The units of the Battlegroup South took more favorable positions, making Ukraine lose up to 190 servicemen and a Spartan armored personnel carrier. Ukraine also lost two field artillery guns, including a 155-mm Panzerhaubitze 2000 self-propelled gun of German manufacture.

Battlegroup East

Kiev’s losses in the responsibility zone of the Battlegroup East amounted to up to 135 servicemen, a vehicle and four field artillery guns over the day, the ministry said.

The agency added that over the past day, the units of the group had improved their tactical position. They also struck manpower and equipment belonging to a mechanized brigade of Ukraine, as well as two territorial defense brigades near the settlements of Razliv and Novopol in the Donetsk People’s Republic and Gulyaypole in the Zaporozhye Region.

Battlegroup Center

Ukraine’s daily losses in the area of responsibility of the Battlegroup Center amounted to up to 560 military personnel, the Ministry of Defense reported.

It recalled that the decisive actions of the battlegroup resulted in the liberation of Dzerzhinsk in the DPR. The city is the largest settlement in the Toretsk agglomeration.

Battlegroup West

Kiev has lost up to 240 servicemen and three armored combat vehicles in the responsibility zone of the Battlegroup West. It added that units of the battlegroup continued their advance deep into enemy defenses. They defeated manpower and equipment of one tank brigade and four mechanized and assault brigades near Monachinovka, Kondrashovka, Zagoruykovka, Novaya Kruglyakovka, and Zeleny Gai in the Kharkov Region, as well as Novolyubovka in the Lugansk People’s Republic and Dronovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic.

Air Force and air defenses

Russian servicemen have hit a gas and oil industry facility that supplied Ukraine’s defense enterprises, as well as military airfields infrastructure, storage depots and launch preparation sites for Ukrainian drones in 152 areas, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

“Operational-tactical aircraft, strike drones, missile troops, and artillery of the Russian army targeted a gas and oil facility that supported Ukraine’s defense industry, military airfield infrastructure, storage warehouses, and sites used for preparing drone launches, as well as concentrations of enemy manpower and equipment in 152 areas,” the ministry said.