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Current information on the situation on the front line on August 12 (updated)
2025-08-13
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFront] 21:59 Published footage of the destruction of a Ukrainian UAV control center in the Khar'kov region.

20:36 Posted video of Russian artillery “working” on Ukrainian positions in Pokrovsk.

20:19 Anti-UAV units of the 11th Army Corps were forcibly planted wo Baba Yaga type drones using a network.

20:02 Crews of modernized T-72B3M tanks of the "Center" group of forces are improving skills in the rear area of the SVO zone.

Gunners and commanders of combat vehicles fire the 125mm cannon from a stationary position and on the move, using the fire control systems of the Sosna-U sighting system.

19:33 The defensive midfielders at Predtechino are under the control of the Russian Federation –MAP

18:41 UAV operators of the Rubicon Center destroy equipment, personnel, elements of communication systems and unmanned aerial vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Servicemen of the "East" military grouping used FPV drones to destroy an enemy tank and armored fighting vehicle in the DPR.

UAV crews of the Nevsky volunteer brigade of the Southern group of troops are eliminating Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel in dugouts in the Kramatorsk-Druzhkovsky direction.

17:40 Calculation of the Tor-M2 complex of the Vostok groupdestroyedA Ukrainian Armed Forces jet drone in the South Donetsk direction.

The target was detected in a timely manner by the complex’s radar systems, tracked and hit by a surface-to-air missile.

16:17 Artillerymen of the "West" group of forces destroyed enemy UAV control point in the Krasnolimansk direction.

The enemy UAV takeoff point was completely destroyed along with the personnel and ammunition located there, which led to a significant reduction in enemy drone activity in this section of the front. The enemy lost the ability to conduct aerial reconnaissance and strike using UAVs.

15:51 Most of Pankovka is under Russian control –MAP

15:10 Our drone operators together with mortar men inflicted a precise strike on Ukrainian naval infantry in the Mykhailivka area.

14:14 Russian army occupied Zolotoy Kolodez –MAP

13:36 RF Armed Forces came in in Rodinskoye.

13:34 Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk)

Breakthrough of our assault units in the Dobropolye area and in the flank of Rodinsky, is more than 20 km.

The route to Dnepropetrovsk is under our control. The enemy does not understand what to do. To defend Pokrovsk or to fight off Dobropolye and Rodinskoye.

13:16 The Russian army is advancing towards the settlements of Shakhovo and Sofievka in the DPR –MAP

12:52 Russian Armed Forces entered Rodinskoye from the east –MAP

12:48 From 09.20 to 10.15 Moscow time, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed Nine Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles over the territory of the Republic of Tatarstan.

12:14 Summary of Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation as of August 12, 2025

👮‍♂️Units of the North group of forces inflicted losses on the manpower and equipment of the mechanized, ranger, airborne assault brigades, assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Varachino, Stepnoye, Yunakovka, Pershe Travnya and Andreyevka in Sumy Oblast.💥

In the Khar'kov direction, units of the mechanized brigade, the assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the territorial defense brigade were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Volchansk, Melovoe and Sinelnikovo in the Khar'kov region.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 175 servicemen, an armored combat vehicle, five cars, three field artillery pieces and three ammunition depots.📍

Units of the "West" group of forces occupied more advantageous lines and positions, and defeated formations of two mechanized and assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the settlements of Osinovo, Kupyansk, Petrovpavlovka, Peschanoye, Borovskaya Andreyevka in the Khar'kov region, Karpovka, Kolodezi and Srednee in the Donetsk People's Republic.

The enemy's losses amounted to 215 servicemen, a tank, two British-made Snatch armored combat vehicles, 13 cars, three artillery pieces, including two made by NATO countries. Six electronic warfare stations and two ammunition depots were destroyed.

Units of the "Southern" group of troops improved the position along the front line, inflicted losses on the manpower and equipment of two mechanized, mountain assault, airmobile brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the territorial defense brigade, the special forces brigade "Azov*" and the assault brigade "Lyut" of the National Police of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Serebryanka, Mayskoye, Seversk, Kleban-Byk, Katerynivka, Shcherbinovka, Konstantinovka and Belaya Gora of the Donetsk People's Republic.

The enemy lost more than 265 servicemen, an armored combat vehicle, six cars, a field artillery gun, an electronic warfare station, as well as an ammunition depot and a supply depot.

Units of the "Center" group of forces improved their position along the front line. They defeated formations of two mechanized, infantry, assault, airborne assault brigades, an assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a naval infantry brigade, a territorial defense brigade and two national guard brigades in the areas of the settlements of Krasny Liman, Dimitrov, Muravka, Dachnoye, Suvorovo, Rodinskoye, Udachnoye, Krasnoarmeysk of the Donetsk People's Republic and Filiya of the Dnipropetrovsk region.

The losses of the Ukrainian armed forces amounted to over 365 servicemen, six vehicles, four field artillery pieces and two electronic warfare stations.↗️

Units of the "East" group of forces continued to advance into the depths of the enemy's defense, inflicting losses on the manpower and equipment of the mechanized, mountain assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a naval infantry brigade and a territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Iskra, Kamyshevakha, Aleksandrograd of the Donetsk People's Republic, Ivanovka of the Dnipropetrovsk region, Levadnoye, Zeleny Gai and Temirovka of the Zaporizhia region.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 270 servicemen, an armored combat vehicle, 10 vehicles, and six artillery pieces, including two produced by NATO countries. An electronic warfare station and two ammunition depots were destroyed.

Units of the Dnepr group of forces defeated formations of a mechanized brigade, a coastal defense brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and two territorial defense brigades in the areas of the settlements of Novoandreevka, Lukyanovskoye in the Zaporizhia region, Antonovka, Tokarevka, and Nikolskoye in the Kherson region.

More than 125 Ukrainian servicemen, an armored combat vehicle, 21 vehicles, three field artillery pieces, including two US-made 155mm M-777 howitzers, eight electronic warfare stations, as well as two ammunition depots, two supply depots, and a fuel and lubricants depot were destroyed.

11:21 Crews of the 152mm Msta-B guns of the Ulyanovsk paratroopers with high-precision munitions "Krasnopol" destroyed UAV control points and Ukrainian Armed Forces manpower in the Kherson region.

In a matter of minutes, the artillerymen deployed their guns, calculated the coordinates for firing, and hit all targets with precise shots, destroying all five UAV control points and two places where Ukrainian infantry was concentrated in the basements of half-destroyed buildings.

10:46 Approximate configuration of the breakthrough towards Zolotoy Kolodez. Fighting has also begun on the northern outskirts of Rodinskoye –MAP

10:19 Servicemen of a motorized rifle unit of the "Center" group of forcestolddetails of the liberation of the village of Yablonovka in the DPR.

09:31 Footage released destruction of PU UAV 15th Nefense NGU using FAB-3000 with UMPK in the village of Dimitrov/Mirnograd.

Destruction of PVD 100 Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine using FAB-3000 with UMPC in the village. Konstantinovka.

07:32 Changes to map over the past 24 hours:

Advance in the Yunakovka area
Expansion of the control zone in the area of the settlement of Kolodezi➡️
Liberated from the village of Zeleny Gai

07:20 During the past night from 23:50 Moscow time on August 11 to 03:40 Moscow time on August 12, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 25 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type:

22 over the territory of the Rostov region and
Three over the territory of the Stavropol region.


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