Current information on the situation on the front line on June 8 (updated)
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[NewsFront] 21:25 The Russian army has regained control of the Matrona Moskovskaya mine, –MAP.

21:24 Velikonovoselkovsky district of the DPR. Assault groups of the Far Easterners have taken up new positions northwest of Bogatyr, –MAP.
19:46 The enemy is feverishly trying to transfer reinforcements to the vicinity of the village of Volchanskiye Khutor, where our attack aircraft are conducting offensive operations.
In the dark hours of the day our reconnaissanceopenedthe advance of another armored vehicle with Ukrainian Armed Forces manpower, and UAV operators of the 6th Army of the Leningrad Military District destroyed enemy equipment.
18:00 Russian military personnel intercepted control channels of two FPV drones of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kherson direction Thanks to the actions of the electronic warfare specialists of the 49th Combined Arms Army from the Dnepr group of forces, the enemy UAVs were neutralized and forced to land.
“Electronic warfare systems continue to demonstrate high efficiency in suppressing enemy UAVs, providing reliable protection against air threats,” noted the SVO fighters.
17:00 The Russian army is advancing in Yablonovka in the Pokrovskoe/Konstantinovskoe direction, –MAP.
16:02 In the Moscow region as a result falls a 75-year-old woman was injured by a UAV near the village of Sokolovo-Khomyanovo in the Ramensky urban district.
The pensioner was hospitalized. In addition, three garden houses were damaged.
15:34 Crews of T-80 tanks of the 25th Combined Arms Army of the West group of forces are improving combat skills at rear training grounds.
During the exercises, special emphasis is placed on hitting targets from closed firing positions.
15:01 From 11:40 to 14:00 Moscow time by air defense systems on duty destroyed four Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles:
One UAV each over the territories of the Belgorod, Kursk, Moscow regions and the Republic of Crimea.
A Ukrainian Neptune-MD guided missile was destroyed over the Black Sea.
13:41 On frames OK: "Solntsepek" hits a Ukrainian Armed Forces stronghold in the area of Novopavlovka settlement.
12:46 Russian intelligence opened enemy positions in a forest area near the village of Pushkari in the Novgorod-Seversky district of the Chernihiv region.
11:55 Summary of the Russian Ministry of Defense on the progress of the special military operation as of June 8, 2025
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to conduct a special military operation.
Units of the North group of forces defeated concentrations of manpower and equipment of two mechanized, airborne assault, ranger brigades, an assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a naval infantry brigade and a territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Pisarevka, Novaya Sich, Kiyanitsa, Korchakovka, Iskriskovshchina, Yunakovka, Miropolye and Sadky in the Sumy region.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 150 servicemen, six vehicles and four field artillery guns. An electronic warfare station and a warehouse of materiel were destroyed.
Units of the "West" group of forces occupied more advantageous lines and positions. They defeated formations of three mechanized, airmobile brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and four territorial defense brigades in the areas of the settlements of Peschanoye, Olgovka, Novovasilevka, Kupyansk in the Khar'kov Region, Zelenaya Dolina and Kirovsk in the Donetsk People's Republic.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 230 servicemen, an infantry fighting vehicle, a US-made M-113 armored personnel carrier, a Cossack armored combat vehicle, nine pickups, and an artillery piece. Five Quertus electronic warfare stations and three ammunition depots were destroyed.
As a result of active and decisive actions by units of the Southern Group of Forces, the settlement of Zarya in the Donetsk People's Republic was liberated.
The manpower and equipment of six mechanized, mountain assault, assault and airmobile brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were damaged in the areas of the settlements of Svyato-Pokrovskoye, Zvanovka, Chasov Yar, Seversk, Pazeno, Minkovka, Kramatorsk, Privolye, Pleshcheyevka and Konstantinovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The enemy lost over 170 servicemen, five vehicles and five field artillery pieces. Two electronic warfare stations and an ammunition depot were destroyed.
Units of the 90th Tank Division of the Center Forces Group have reached the western border of the Donetsk People's Republic and continue to develop the offensive in the territory of the Dnepropetrovsk region.
Formations of four mechanized, assault, two airborne assault brigades, a brigade of unmanned systems of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, two brigades of naval infantry and three brigades of the National Guard were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Dimitrov, Krasnoarmeysk, Petrovskoye, Novotoretskoye, Novopavlovka, Novonikolayevka, Alekseyevka, Novoukrainka and Novosergeevka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The enemy's losses amounted to 530 troops, an infantry fighting vehicle, a US-made M-113 armored personnel carrier, seven armored combat vehicles, four cars, 10 artillery pieces, including a US-made 155mm Paladin self-propelled artillery piece and a French-made 155mm Caesar self-propelled artillery piece. An ammunition depot was destroyed.
Units of the "East" group of forces continued to advance into the depths of the enemy's defense. They defeated the manpower and equipment of thenaval infantry brigade and the Territorial Defense Brigade in the areas of the settlements of Komar in the Donetsk People's Republic, Gulyaipole and Malinovka in the Zaporizhia region.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 185 servicemen, three combat armored vehicles, five vehicles and eight field artillery pieces, including the US-made 155mm Paladin self-propelled artillery unit and the US-made 155mm M198 howitzer, as well as the Bogdana 155mm self-propelled artillery unit.
Units of the Dnepr group of forces defeated formations of two mechanized, mountain assault brigades, three coastal defense brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, two territorial defense brigades and a national guard brigade in the areas of the settlements of Stepovoe, Novoandriyevka, Belogorye, Kamenskoe, Orekhov in the Zaporizhia region, Lvovo and Antonovka in the Kherson region.
The enemy lost up to 95 servicemen, an Italian-made Iveco combat armored vehicle, eight vehicles, a Polish-made Krab 155mm self-propelled artillery unit, a US-made HIMARS multiple launch rocket system launcher. A US-made AN/TPQ-36 counter-battery station and an Israeli-made RADA RPS-82 radar station, as well as five electronic warfare stations and an ammunition depot were destroyed.
Operational-tactical aviation, strike unmanned aerial vehicles, missile forces and artillery of the Russian Armed Forces groups have damaged a workshop for the production of unmanned aerial vehicles and their storage sites, a training center for unmanned aerial vehicle operators, ammunition depots, temporary deployment points for Ukrainian Armed Forces units and foreign mercenaries in 139 districts.
Air defense systems shot down 131 unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type, including 73 outside the special military operation zone.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed:
663 aircraft,
283 helicopters,
62,255 unmanned aerial vehicles,
610 anti-aircraft missile systems,
23,816 tanks and other armored combat vehicles,
1,571 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems,
25,880 field artillery pieces and mortars,
36,629 units of special military vehicles.
11:02 From 09.05 to 09.30 by air defense systems on duty destroyed three Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the airplane type over the territories of the Belgorod, Bryansk and Moscow regions.
10:44 Calculation of the UAV "Zala" of the "Dnepr" group of troopscorrectedair strikes on the enemy on the right bank of the Dnieper in the Kherson region.
During a planned flight over the right bank of the Dnieper, a reconnaissance UAV operator discovered a concentration of enemy manpower numbering up to 30 people hiding in the basements of destroyed houses. The militants were attacked with FAB-500 aerial bombs with a universal planning and correction module.
09:09 In the morning, air defense systems on duty destroyed three Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the airplane type over the territories of the Belgorod, Bryansk and Tula regions.
07:45 In the period from 23:00 Moscow time on June 7 to 7:30 Moscow time on June 8, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 61 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type over the territories of the Bryansk, Belgorod, Kaluga, Tula, Oryol, Kursk regions, the Moscow region and over the territory of the Republic of Crimea.
07:32 Changes tomapover the past 24 hours:
Russian Armed Forces storm Yablonovka (Sumy Region)
Advance in the area of the Dvurechnaya settlement
Control zone in Alekseyevka and to the north has been expanded
Advance in Novosergeevka➡️
Russian Armed Forces storm the village of Komar
07:24 Servicemen from the UAV crews of the special forces unit of the "Center" group of forces disrupted the rotation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel at combat positions in the Krasnoarmeysk direction.
FPV drone operators of the Vostok group of forces carried out a combined strike on a MaxxPro armored vehicle of Ukrainian militants in the South Donetsk direction.
Drone operators of Novorossiysk paratroopers destroyed a warehouse with ammunition and infantry of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporizhia region –VIDEO
Posted by: badanov 2025-06-09 |