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[LB] The Russians shelled 19 settlements with artillery.
by Tetyana Boyarchuk
From the beginning of the day on June 21, as of 16:00, 77 combat clashes took place on the front. Most of the fighting took place in the Pokrovsky direction. Our defenders are stopping the enemy, holding the lines and destroying the Russians' plans.
This is stated in the General Staff report.
During the day, the enemy from the territory of the Russian Federation launched artillery attacks on the areas of the settlements of Pokrovka, Novodmytrivka, Porozok, Yizdetske, Rozhkovychi, Dmytrivka, Myropilske, Popivka, Progress, Chuykivka, Vysoke, Malushyne, Luhivka, Bachivsk, Tovstodubovo, Ulanovo, Maryine in Sumy region; Timofeivka in Kharkiv region; Liskivshchyna in Chernihiv region.
In the North Slobozhansk and Kursk directions, Ukrainian defenders repelled three attacks by the invaders. The enemy launched three air strikes, dropping six guided bombs, and carried out 152 artillery attacks, including five from multiple rocket launchers.
In the South Slobozhansk direction, Ukrainian defenders repelled two attacks by the aggressor in the Kamyanka area and towards Krasny Pershy. The enemy launched air strikes on the area of the settlement of Komisarov.
In the Kupyansk direction, our soldiers repelled one enemy attack in the Golubivka area, and another clash near Zagryzove continues to this day.
In the Lymansky direction, 11 clashes occurred near the settlements of Hrekivka, Ridkodub, Zelena Dolyna, Torske, in the direction of Cherneschyna, Olhivka, Novy Mir, Karpivka. Four clashes are currently ongoing.
In the Siversky direction, the enemy twice attacked the positions of our defenders in the Hryhorivka area, and one clash has not subsided to this day.
In the Kramatorsk direction, the enemy attacked six times in the area of Bila Hora and towards Predtechyny. One clash is still ongoing.
In the Torets direction, the invaders attacked seven times in the areas of Diliivka, Shcherbinivka, and towards Yablunivka. Three clashes are ongoing.
High enemy activity is currently maintained in the Pokrovsky direction. Twenty-nine times today, clashes of varying intensity began near the settlements of Mirne, Malinivka, Myrolyubivka, Promin, Lysivka, Dachenske, Shevchenko, Udachne, Horikhove, Kotlyarivka, in the direction of the settlements of Shakhove, Novopavlivka, Alekseevka. Five battles are still ongoing. The enemy carried out air strikes in the areas of the settlements of Razine, Novoekonomichne, Sukhyi Yar.
In the Novopavlivske direction, the aggressor tried to advance four times in the areas of the settlements of Myrne, Shevchenko, and Vilne Pole. Two clashes are still ongoing.
In the Orikhiv direction, the occupiers tried three times to advance towards the positions of Ukrainian units in the Novoandreyevka and Kamyanske areas, in addition, enemy aircraft struck the settlements of Lobkove and Stepnohirsk.
The enemy did not conduct active offensive operations in the Hulyaipil and Prydniprovsky directions, but did launch an air strike on the settlement of Kozatske, Kherson region.
Ukrainian troops are exhausting the enemy along the entire front line and in the rear.
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[NewsFront] 20:41 Servicemen of the repair company of the West group of forces continue to repair and maintain military equipment.
Specialists carry out repairs of cars, armored vehicles and tracked vehicles, including replacement of engines and other complex units.
Particular attention is paid to strengthening the protection of equipment from modern threats. A unique system of protection against kamikaze drones has been developed and is actively used —video.
19:52 Signalmen of the North group of troops provide reliable and secure communications in the Khar'kov direction
About the combat routine of a signalmantoldradio operator with the call sign "Cadet":
"Modern combat operations require signalers to move to a point at lightning speed: suddenly there is some kind of malfunction, some kind of breakdown, an FPV drone arrives. The enemy, of course, constantly interferes with us, influences us with FPV drones, often tries to track us down with reconnaissance drones. But we are no pushovers either. We always carry a drone detector with us. It often helps out, helps. I think it has saved our lives more than once."
18:35 While fighting in the Pokrovsky direction, drone operators of the 60th Battalion of the 9th Moltorized Rifle Brigade liquidated a group of Ukrainian infantry. Sniper operators hit the target on the move.
17:15 Units of the Russian Armed Forces, continuing to break through the enemy's defenses southwest of Konstantinovka, knocked out enemy from positions in the southern part of Poltavka and between Poltavka and Rusin Yar, as well as from a strong point north of Yablonovka, and advanced in the area of the highway.
In Yablonovka, there are battles in the central part. In Aleksandro-Kalinovo, the enemy is trying to hold on at any cost, transferring reserves here.
West of the village of Shevchenko-Pervoye, our units are attacking on the approaches to Razino.
Northwest of Koptevo - fighting on the eastern outskirts of Novotoretskoye.
16:20 From 13:35 Moscow time to 14:15 Moscow time by air defense systems on duty destroyed two Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the airplane type over the territory of the Bryansk region.
15:48 The Russian Defense Ministry has published footage of the liberation of the settlement of Zaporozhye in the DPR, where fighters from the Vostok group of forces defeated units of the 37th Separate Naval Infantry Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, –video.
14:23 In the Sumy direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces took prisoners and shot 12 soldiers of the Russian Armed Forces
13:30 Units of the Group of Forces "Vostok" have gained a foothold in Shevchenko, southwest of Komar. The southern part of the village came under the control of the assault units of the 5th Army and there is a fortification in the eastern part.
Our units are attacking in the direction of Maliyevka, Voskresenka and the enemy stronghold north of Shevchenko.
The village garrison is under threat of encirclement. The logistics route from Kamyshevakha is cut off in the southern part of the village, and from Voznesenka it is under close fire control and attacks by our units.
13:00 Summary Ministry of Defense on the progress of the Special Military Operation as of 06/21/2025
Units of the North group of forces occupied more advantageous lines and positions, defeated concentrations of manpower and equipment of two mechanized, a ranger, two airborne assault brigades and an assault regiment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the settlements of Bessalovka, Khoten, Yastrebinoye, Pershe Travnya, Andreyevka and Novaya Sich in the Sumy region.
In the Khar'kov direction, units of the motorized infantry brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the territorial defense brigade and the national guard brigade were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Tsupovka, Ivashki and Artelnoye in the Khar'kov region
The enemy's losses amounted to 160 servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, nine cars, four field artillery pieces and an ammunition depot.
Units of the "West" group of forces improved their tactical position. They defeated formations of three mechanized, assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Glushkovka, Kupyansk, Petropavlovka in the Khar'kov region and Maslyakovka in the Donetsk People's Republic.
The enemy lost more than 220 servicemen, a tank, two armored combat vehicles, 14 cars, two artillery pieces, including a US-made 155mm M-777 howitzer, and four ammunition depots.
Units of the "Southern" group of troops improved their tactical position. They defeated the manpower and equipment of two mechanized, mountain assault, airmobile brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Konstantinovka, Vasyukovka, Fedorovka and Chasov Yar of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 180 servicemen, a tank, an armored combat vehicle, two cars, two field artillery guns, an electronic warfare station, and four warehouses of supplies.
Units of the "Center" group of forces occupied more advantageous lines and positions. They defeated formations of three mechanized, two airborne assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a naval infantry brigade and two territorial defense brigades in the areas of the settlements of Krasnoarmeysk, Petrovskoye, Novoekonomicheskoye, Poltavka, Dimitrov, Muravka, Novopavlovka and Grodovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The enemy's losses amounted to 515 servicemen, five armored combat vehicles, three pickup trucks and an artillery piece.
The manpower and equipment of two mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a naval infantry brigade and two territorial defense brigades were damaged in the areas of the settlements of Uspenovka, Temirovka, Olgovskoye, Poltavka and Malinovka in the Zaporizhia region.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 200 servicemen, three armored combat vehicles, nine cars and two artillery pieces.
Units of the Dnepr group of forces defeated formations of two mechanized brigades, a coastal defense brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Novodanilovka, Kamenskoye in the Zaporizhia region, Lvovo and Antonovka in the Kherson region.
Up to 75 Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen, five vehicles, an artillery piece, an electronic warfare station and an ammunition depot were destroyed.
12:20 Tonight the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation inflicted a group strike with high-precision air, land and sea-based weapons, as well as strike unmanned aerial vehicles, on the infrastructure of a military airfield and a fuel and energy complex facility that supplies fuel to Ukrainian Armed Forces groups in Donbas.
The strike target has been achieved. All designated objects have been hit.
12:15 Units of the "East" group of forces continued to advance into the depths of the enemy's defense and, as a result of decisive actions, liberated the settlement of Zaporozhye in the Donetsk People's Republic.
11:57 Governor of Belgorod Region Vyacheslav Gladkov:
Information about the strikes carried out by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the region over the past 24 hours:
– Two aircraft-type drones were shot down by the air defense system over the Alekseevsky municipal district. There were no consequences.
– In the Belgorod district, the village of Oktyabrsky and the village of Lozovoye were attacked by four drones. In the village of Oktyabrsky, the fence of a private house was damaged, in the village of Lozovoye, two outbuildings were damaged, and a private house was also destroyed by fire.
– In the Borisovsky district:
On the Novoaleksandrovka-Stanovoye highway, a moving passenger car was attacked by a drone. A married couple was injured. The necessary medical care was provided, treatment continues on an outpatient basis. The vehicle was completely destroyed by fire.
– In the Valuysky municipal district, 11 drones were used to strike the city of Valuyki, the settlement of Urazovo and the village of Dolgoe, nine of which were suppressed. Communication infrastructure facilities were damaged in the city of Valuyki and the settlement of Urazovo.
– A UAV was shot down by the air defense system over the Veydelevsky district. No consequences.
– In the Volokonovsky district, three shells were fired at the Stary farm during one artillery attack. Also, three drones were shot down over the area by the air defense system. There were no casualties or damage.
– In the Graivoronsky municipal district, 14 rounds of ammunition were fired at the village of Gorkovsky and the village of Bezymeno during three attacks. In the city of Graivoron, early in the morning, as a result of an FPV drone attack on the territory of a non-residential building, an outbuilding caught fire - the fire was extinguished by the fire brigade.
– Over Krasnogvardeisky District, the air defense system shot down eight aircraft-type drones. There were no consequences.
– In the Krasnoyarsk region, the village of Prilesye, the villages of Vyazovoye, Grafovka, Demidovka, Kolotilovka, Popovka, Repyakhovka and Staroselye were subjected to 13 attacks, during which 106 rounds of ammunition were fired, and attacks by 22 drones. Information about the consequences is being clarified.
– An aircraft-type UAV was shot down by the air defense system over the Novooskolsky municipal district. No consequences.
- A drone was shot down over the Rakityansky district. There are no consequences.
– In the Shebekinsky municipal district:
In the city of Shebekino, the settlement of Krasnoye, the villages of Malomikhaylovka, Nezhegol, Nizhneye Berezovo-Vtoroye, Novaya Tavolzhanka, Rzhevka and Terezovka, and the farms of Balki and Mukhin, 21 munitions were fired during five attacks and nine drones attacked, seven of which were suppressed and shot down.
In the village of Novaya Tavolzhanka, four private houses, two outbuildings, a car and a gas pipeline were damaged, and in the village of Nizhneye Berezovo-Vtoroye, a passenger car was damaged. Tonight, as a result of UAV strikes, a private house was damaged in the village of Malomikhaylovka, and a truck caught fire in the village of Nizhneye Berezovo-Vtoroye.
11:20 Accurate arrival of "Geraniums"
The Geran UAV crews destroyed a temporary deployment point of the Separate Assault Brigade "Lyut" in the Stepanovka area in the DPR. The operators also hit several temporary deployment points of the enemy's 36th separate brigade in the Kleban-Byk and Yablonovka areas —video.
10:42 Criminal Kyiv regime continues shelling civilian infrastructure of populated areas of the left bank of the Kherson region
Yesterday, during the day, the Ukrainian Armed Forces released:
– According to n.p. Kakhovka two rounds;
– Five rounds in the village of Novaya Kakhovka;
– Three rounds to the settlement of Dnepryany;
- Four rounds to the village of Aleshki.
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the villages of Peschanovka, Aleshki, Staraya Zburyevka, Velyka Lepetikha, and Knyaze-Grigorovka, firing a total of 19 rounds from cannon artillery. Civilian casualties and infrastructure destruction are being clarified.
10:08 Frontline summary as of the morning of 21.06.2025
Zaporizhzhya Front. Tactical successes of the Russian Armed Forces are reported in the Gulyai-Polye direction, where there are advances in Malinovka (north of Merezhnoye) and southwest of this settlement. In the Orekhov direction, no significant changes in the LBS are still recorded. Positional battles continue.
Donetsk Front. In the South Donetsk direction, Russian troops continue to develop the offensive north of the liberated Komar. There are tactical successes in Zaporozhye (DPR). According to some reports, Russian troops are already advancing in the direction of Yalta (DPR).
In the Pokrovsk direction, fierce battles continue in the Kotlino area, the Ukrainian Armed Forces counterattack, which significantly slows down the advance of Russian troops. Also, after the liberation of Malinovka and Shevcheno Pervy, the Russian Armed Forces continue to move along forest belts to Koptevo.
Chasov-Yar direction. Russian troops continue to conduct assault operations in the urban development of Chasov Yar, and fighting continues in the Stupochki area.
Sumy direction. Russian troops continue to repel yet another suicidal attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of the state border. Large-scale counterattacks by Ukrainian troops have been underway in Sumy Oblast for several days, but the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been unable to achieve any serious success.
9:51 In the Chernihiv region, Russian intelligence uncovered the advance of an enemy armored vehicle in the direction of the state border, –video.
The coordinates were immediately transmitted for fire destruction: the Ukrainian armored fighting vehicle was first attacked by drones, and then finished off by a targeted hit from an FPV drone.
Our UAV operators destroyed a domestically produced Tiger armored fighting vehicle, which was captured by the enemy, most likely back in 2022.
9:00 Drone operators are destroying enemy targets and adjust the artillery strikes.
– The crews of the Molniya strike UAVs of the Vostok group of forces disrupted the enemy’s rotation in the area of the settlement of Zaporozhye in the DPR.
– Drone operators of the “East” group of forces destroyed a radar station and enemy manpower in the South Donetsk direction.
– Reconnaissance drone crews adjusted the work of the artillerymen of the “Southern” group of forces; three enemy UAV control points were destroyed in the area of the settlement of Seversk.
– Drone crews of the special forces unit of the “Center” group of troops destroyed enemy manpower, clearing the way for assault groups in the Krasnoarmeysk direction.
8:25 Units of the "Vostok" group continue offensive in the Malinovka area.
Southwest of the village, our units advanced up to two km, driving the enemy out of the plantings north of the Yanchur River.
In the village itself, our assault groups are already fighting in the center, having advanced about 600 m. Fierce fighting is taking place on the approaches to Gulyaipole.
8:10 During the past night, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed five Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type:
Two UAVs over the territories of the Kursk and Voronezh regions and
One over the territory of the Republic of Mordovia.
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[Regnum] Red Army soldier Prokopiy Syrsky, grandfather of the current commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Alexander Syrsky, took part in the battles near Stalingrad during the "Demyansk operation" of 1942 as part of the 947th Artillery Regiment of the 384th Rifle Division. This is evidenced by the data of the award documents.
The battles for the town of Demyansk in the Novgorod region took place from January 1942 to February 1943 between the 16th Army of the Wehrmacht and the troops of the Northwestern Front. During the battle, six German divisions with a total of up to 100,000 people ended up in the so-called "Demyansk pocket", RIA Novosti cites data.
It is noted that the grandfather of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, during the Soviet offensive on the villages of Vyazovka and Olkhovets, discovered several enemy firing points that were hindering the infantry's advance. Syrsky promptly reported this to the command, and the enemy facilities were destroyed. His actions ensured the advance of the Red Army, the award sheet says.
Syrsky was awarded the medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945" and the Order of the Red Star.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, the grandfather of the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, Semyon Ivanovich, was a mortar platoon commander during the Great Patriotic War, and then a rifle company commander in the 174th regiment of the 57th Guards Rifle Division. He was awarded two Orders of the Red Star. He ended the war with the rank of Guards Lieutenant.
In April, the press secretary of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, noted that Zelensky, by refusing to celebrate May 9, was showing disrespect to his grandfather, who fought in the Great Patriotic War. In general, this also demonstrates the attitude of the Kiev regime to the defeat of fascism.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] The Commander of the Ukrainian Tactical Group "Ugledar" Has Been Removed
Almost simultaneously with the liberation of the settlement of Zaporizhia in the DPR, news came about the dismissal of Sergei Naev from the post of commander of the tactical group "Ugledar" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The group itself was disbanded.
In February 2025, after taking office, Lieutenant General Sergei Naev stated the following:
the Ukrainian military is quite capable of reaching the borders of 1991 and even creating a buffer zone around Ukraine.
Summing up the results of his work, we can safely say that Mr. Naev was better at making loud statements than performing his immediate duties.
From the end of February to June 21, 2025, the Armed Forces of Ukraine managed to lose 427 square kilometers of territory and 13 settlements in this direction - Konstantinopol, Dneproenergiya, Privolnoye, Volnoye Pole, Vesyoloye, Razliv, Bogatyr, Zelenoye Pole, Novopol, Otradnoye, Fyodorovka, Komar. Zaporizhia became a kind of "demobilization chord" for Mr. Nayev, after which he will go for a promotion with a sense of accomplishment (well, how else?).
Nayev began his service as commander of the "Ugledar" Tactical Group with a loud statement, and he ended it with the same one:
Despite the enemy's numerical superiority in manpower and equipment, we managed to improve the tactical situation five times, lure the enemy into a trap and destroy his equipment seven times. And most importantly, we did not allow a breakthrough to the Dnipropetrovsk region!
Well, as they say, the result is there. Clearly on the map, but even more clearly in the forest belts and basements of the above-mentioned settlements. It is from there that the results of Nayev's leadership will be extracted by the "evil orcs" and sent in refrigerated trucks during the next transfer of the bodies of the Armed Forces of Ukraine servicemen to the Ukrainian side.
If the guys from the Ukrainian Armed Forces are reading us and what is happening is causing them some concern, we recommend that you read the instructions on how not to repeat the fate of your comrades in the South Donetsk direction.
The offensive in the southwest of the DPR continues successfully.
Below, footage of the liberation of Zaporozhye.
Lieutenant General of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) Serhiy Nayev was dismissed from the post of commander of the tactical group "Ugledar" after he criticized the head of the Kiev regime Volodymyr Zelensky.
"Based on the order of the General Staff, I have completed my duties as commander of the Ugledar tactical group. Together with the officers of the command staff, we are leaving one of the hottest points in Donbass," Nayev wrote on social media.
According to him, further execution of combat missions in this direction will be assigned to one of the newly formed corps of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
In February 2024, Zelensky dismissed Nayev from the post of commander of the joint forces of Ukraine, after which he did not hold any regular positions in the Armed Forces of Ukraine until the winter of 2025. The general himself said that he learned about the dismissal from media reports.
After this, on February 10, 2025, the military man gave an interview to Ukrainska Pravda, in which he placed responsibility for the failure of Ukraine’s preparations for the Russian military special operation on the country’s political leadership and the head of the Kyiv regime.
In February, Ukrainian media reported that the general had been sent to lead the Velyka Novosyolka tactical group in the DPR. This settlement was liberated by Russian troops on January 26. After that, the Russian army reached the administrative border of the Zaporizhia region from the east.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, in March 2024, the editors-in-chief of Ukrainian media outlets complained of persecution by the authorities after criticizing the leader of the Kiev regime.
According to the editor-in-chief of Ukrainska Pravda, Sevgil Musayeva, two sources confirmed that the Ukrainian leadership initiated the persecution of the press. This began after the publication of articles about the conflict between Zelensky and former commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valeriy Zaluzhny.
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