Russia's war on Ukraine. 13.03.25
Operational situation
On the Kursk direction, the 11th Separate Air Assault Brigade, the 22nd Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 72nd Motorized Rifle Division of the 44th Army Corps, and the 2nd Separate SOF Brigade captured Sudzha. The enemy advanced to the southern outskirts of Zaoleshenka, west of Basivka, near Sverdlivkovo, west of Kazachya Loknia, the southeastern outskirts of Goncharovka, west of Kurilovka, north of Guevo, southwest of Zhuravka, and the western outskirts of Alexandria.
On the Kharkiv direction, Russian forces attacked near Hlyboke and close to Vovchansk.
On the Kupyansk direction, Russian forces continued attacks in the areas of Kucherivka, Petropavlivka, Stepova Novoselivka, Nova Kruhlyakivka, Zelenyi Hai, Cherneshchyna, and Hrekivka, advanced on the northern outskirts of Bohuslavka, and are fighting for Zahryzove. The enemy is concentrating on the eastern bank of the Oskil River for a future crossing.
Forward units of the 69th Motorized Rifle Division hold the eastern part of Zapadne, but despite their intense attacks westward, they cannot capture it, nor Dvorichna.
The 1st Tank Army's forces in the area of Kruhlyakivka, where the enemy has reached the Oskil River south of Kupyansk, cannot expand the flanks of this breakthrough. The deployment of elements of the 47th and 4th Tank Divisions and units of the 27th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 1st Tank Army has not yielded results.
On the Lyman direction, Russian forces advanced near Yampolivka, moved west of Ivanivka, west of Novolyubivka, toward Nove, near Myrne, and continued attacks near Katerynivka, Zelena Dolyna, Novomykhailivka, and in the Serebriansk Forest area.
The enemy is increasing strikes on Ukrainian positions, using Shahed strike UAVs.
On the Siversk direction, Russian forces attacked in the areas of Bilohorivka, Hryhorivka, Verkhnyokamianske, and Ivano-Dariivka.
On the Kramatorsk direction, Russian forces fought for Novomarkove, attempted to advance north of the "Novopivnichnyi" district, continued attacks in the "Shevchenko" district, near Mayske, Kurdyumivka, Stupochky, Predtechyne, and Bila Hora.
On the Toretsk direction, Ukrainian Defense Forces advanced along 8th Bereznia Street in Toretsk.
Russian forces advanced to Soborna and M. Hrushevskyi Streets in the northern part of Toretsk, conducted offensive actions near Toretsk, Druzhba, Ozaryanivka, Krymske, Dyliivka, and Dachne.
The occupiers have increased the intensity of their attacks on the Toretsk direction, using fewer aviation and artillery strikes but extensively employing UAVs.
On the Pokrovsk direction, Ukrainian Defense Forces advanced in Lysivka and Udachne.
Russian forces advanced between Zaporizhzhia and Oleksiivka, attacked near Pokrovsk, Tarasivka, Vodyane Druhe, Yelyzavetivka, Promin, Lysivka, Dachenske, Novotroitske, Mykolaivka, Shevchenkove, Vidrodzhennya, Novoukrainka, Zelene, Pishchane, Zvirove, Leontovychi, Udachne, Kotlyne, Nadiivka, Preobrazhenka, Novooleksandrivka, Nadiivka, Bohdanivka, Kotlyarivka, and Serhiivka.
The enemy is intensifying the offensive, attempting to operate mainly at night.
On the Novopavlivka direction, Russian forces attacked near Konstyantynopil and Oleksiivka. In the area of Andriivka, in the sectors of the 110th and 114th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigades of the 51st Combined Arms Army, fierce battles continue. All enemy attempts to advance west of the village or north of it have been unsuccessful. In Andriivka itself and north of it, the enemy has been drawn into exhausting battles and cannot secure its achieved positions. South of the Vovcha River, the enemy has been unable to completely push forward units of the "Khortytsia" OSG from the Konstyantynopil area, where extremely intense battles are ongoing. The enemy actively but unsuccessfully attacks along the road from Ulakly to Zelenivka.
Units of the 36th, 39th, and 57th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigades of the enemy have not achieved significant advances toward Rozlyv or the village of Bahatyr from the south. Units of the "Khortytsia" OSG continue to firmly hold the Konstyantynopil–Rozlyv line, restraining the enemy’s advance both along the Donetsk–Zaporizhzhia highway and to its south.
On the Huliaypole direction, the 37th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 36th Combined Arms Army and the 40th Separate Marines Brigade of the Pacific Fleet captured Dniproenerhiya. Russian forces attempt to advance toward Vesele and northwest of Dniproenerhiya, attacking near Skudne, Rozlyv, Burlatske, Vilne Pole, Pryvilne, Novosilka, and Novopil.
Forward units of the 127th Motorized Rifle Division are engaged in fierce battles but cannot capture the Shevchenkove–Burlatske–Pryvilne–Vilne Pole area, which is critical for the division’s overall advance northward toward Komar. The enemy captured Burlatske and Pryvilne but cannot secure positions there or advance between them. On the left flank of the 127th Motorized Rifle Division's sector, due to a series of counterattacks by "Khortytsia" OSG units, the aggressor was forced to retreat east of Novosilka and withdraw from some positions between Burlatske and Pryvilne.
On the Orikhiv direction, the 247th Air Assault Regiment of the 7th Air Assault Division is attempting to advance on the eastern outskirts of Pyatykhatky, while other enemy forces attacked near Zherebyanky, Novodanylivka, Stepove, Shcherbaky, Kamianske, Lobkove, and in the direction of Novoandriivka.
General conclusion:
On the Kupiansk direction, resistance from the "Khortytsia" Operational-Strategic Group (OSG) is gradually increasing. The 6th Combined Arms Army of the enemy has completely lost its momentum.
A series of counterattacks by "Khortytsia" OSG units in the Dvorichna bridgehead area has successfully pushed the enemy entirely east of the Dvorichna–Kupyansk road in the Zapadne–Dvorichna section. The enemy retains only one position directly on the road. Additionally, the penetration of the 25th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 6th Combined Arms Army west of Synkivka, between the village and the Oskil River, has been successfully eliminated.
On the Novopavlivka direction, the enemy's assault units within the advance zone of the 90th Tank Division failed to advance westward from the Novoyelyzavetivka–Sribne line. Although the enemy managed to move west of Sribne, capture the village of Zaporizhzhia, and advance north of Preobrazhenka, all attempts to secure a foothold in Nadiivka or move toward Troitske were unsuccessful. Preobrazhenka remains under the control of "Khortytsia" OSG units, complicating the enemy's ability to capture Nadiivka and preventing advances along the Sribne–Troitske road. The 228th Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 90th Tank Division, which operated in this area, suffered significant losses among its assault units and was reinforced with elements of the 589th Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 27th Motorized Rifle Division of the 2nd Combined Arms Army. However, the enemy has been unable to resume its offensive in the northern section of the 90th Tank Division’s sector or even increase the intensity of its assault operations.
On the Huliaypole direction, the enemy has concentrated significant forces along a narrow 18.5 km section from Novosilka to Rozdolne, including the 127th Motorized Rifle Division, the 60th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 5th Combined Arms Army, the 37th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade, the 5th Separate Tank Brigade of the 36th Combined Arms Army, elements of the 34th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 49th Combined Arms Army, and the 40th and 336th Separate Marines Brigades, creating a significant numerical advantage. This concentration of enemy forces clearly indicates that the command of the enemy's "Vostok (East)" Operational Grouping is attempting to break through to the Zaporizhzhia–Donetsk highway from the south.
The enemy has made minimal advances in the Novoocheretuvate–Dniproenerhiya direction, capturing part of Skudne. However, further northward progress along the western bank of the Mokri Yaly River will be extremely difficult unless the 127th Motorized Rifle Division moves from the Burlatske–Pryvilne line toward the northwest.
The refusal of the enemy command on the Novopavlivka and Huliaypole directions to employ certain obvious tactical solutions, such as deploying the 5th Separate Tank Brigade in terrain favorable for armored operations, which would have facilitated its advance, indicates a shortage of resources—primarily forces and means capable of conducting effective offensive and assault operations.
Change in the line of contact (LoC):
There were 138 combat engagements on various fronts.
On the Kharkiv direction, 2 enemy attacks were repelled near Vovchansk.
On the Kupyansk direction, 8 enemy assaults took place. Ukrainian Defense Forces repelled enemy assault operations near Petropavlivka, Stepova Novoselivka, and Zahryzove.
On the Lyman direction, the enemy attacked 7 times, attempting to advance near Myrne, Kolodyazi, and Hrekivka.
On the Siversk direction, 9 enemy assaults were repelled near Verkhnyokamianske, Bilohorivka, and Ivano-Dariivka.
On the Kramatorsk direction, a battle engagement was recorded near Chasiv Yar.
On the Toretsk direction, the enemy launched 19 attacks near Toretsk, Leonidivka, Druzhba, and Ozaryanivka.
On the Pokrovsk direction, 45 enemy assaults were stopped.
On the Novopavlivka direction, the enemy attacked 10 times near Konstyantynopil, Rozlyv, and Burlatske.
On the Huliaypole direction, 8 enemy attempts to advance were stopped near Pryvilne and Novodarivka.
On the Orikhiv direction, 6 enemy attacks were successfully repelled near Pyatykhatky, Kamianske, and in the direction of Novoandriivka.
On the Kursk direction, units of the "Siversk" Operational-Tactical Group repelled 17 enemy attacks. The enemy carried out 29 airstrikes.
In the Black Sea-Azov naval operational area, the enemy naval group on combat duty consists of:
Mediterranean Sea: 4 ships, including 3 cruise missile carriers; the total salvo is 26 cruise missiles.
Supporting operation:
Ukrainian Defense Forces carried out drone strikes on a concealed drone manufacturing facility (Kaluga Aerated Concrete Plant) in the village of Obukhovo, Dzerzhinsky District, Kaluga Oblast, Russian Federation. They also attacked gas transportation system facilities in Saratov Oblast, and targeted other sites in Voronezh and Rostov Oblasts.
Changes in the enemy disposition:
The Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation visited the command post of the counterterrorism operation in Kursk Oblast, the command post of the enemy's "Dnepr" Operational Grouping in Kherson Oblast, and the command post of the National Guard "Vostok (East)" Grouping in Luhansk Oblast.
On the Kursk direction, the enemy's troop grouping includes:
the 72nd Motorized Rifle Division of the 44th Army Corps,
the 1220th Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 3rd Motorized Rifle Division of the 20th Combined Arms Army,
the 34th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 49th Combined Arms Army,
military units of the 76th Air Assault Division and the 106th Airborne Division,
the 56th Air Assault Regiment of the 7th Air Assault Division,
the 11th and 83rd Separate Air Assault Brigades,
the 155th Separate Marines Brigade of the Pacific Fleet,
the 810th Separate Marines Brigade of the Black Sea Fleet,
the 177th Separate Marines Regiment of the Caspian Fleet,
the 2nd Separate SOF Brigade, and
the "Veterans" Volunteer Reconnaissance and Assault Brigade (Volunteer Assault Corps).
The 6th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 3rd Combined Arms Army operates near Predtechyne.
Two artillery groups from the 238th Artillery Brigade of the 8th Combined Arms Army are simultaneously active on the Toretsk and Pokrovsk directions.
Possible operation situation developments:
The plan for the enemy's spring-summer offensive campaign in the Southwestern Theater of Operations may be as follows: a simultaneous breakthrough towards Kostyantynivka and Druzhkivka from the south and southeast (from the direction of Toretsk and Vozdvyzhenka), as well as from the northeast (from the direction of Chasiv Yar), followed by an advance towards Kramatorsk from the south while simultaneously advancing towards Slovyansk with the forces of the 20th and 25th Combined Arms Armies of the "Zapad (West)" Operational Grouping through Lyman.
If enemy forces of the "Sever (North)" Operational Grouping secure and expand their bridgehead in the Dvorichna area, they will be positioned to push further into Kharkiv Oblast, broadening the so-called "sanitary zone." This could be achieved through simultaneous advances toward Velykyi Burluk from the bridgehead and from Vovchansk. Another likely course of action is an offensive against the Kupyansk defense sector of "Khortytsia" OSG, coordinated with the 1st Tank Army of the enemy's "Zapad (West)" Operational Grouping.
On the Lyman direction, in the near future, the command of the 25th Combined Arms Army of the enemy's "Zapad (West)” Operational Grouping will attempt to accomplish its immediate task by deploying the 169th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade into the operation and attacking the positions of "Khortytsia" OSG along the Kreminna–Zarichne road toward Torske.
On the Kramatorsk direction, the encirclement of Chasiv Yar from the south by advancing toward Stupochky will be a priority for the command of the 3rd Combined Arms Army and the 98th Airborne Division of the enemy. To achieve this, the enemy may redeploy additional forces from the 85th or 88th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigades of the 3rd Combined Arms Army to this direction from the southern sector.
The operational plan of the 8th Combined Arms Army on the Kostyantynivka direction is to envelop the tactical group of the "Khortytsia" OSG, which is defending south of Kostyantynivka between Oleksandropil and Tarasivka from the flanks. The enemy aims to encircle and destroy this group or, if unable to do so, force it to withdraw from the area south of Kostyantynivka in a northwestern direction under the threat of encirclement. The ultimate goal of these actions is a two-pronged breakthrough from the southwest and southeast toward the area of Stepanivka – Berestok – Pleshchiivka – Yablunivka, followed by a simultaneous assault on Kostyantynivka from this area and from the direction of Chasiv Yar. After the reaching the Poltavka–Pleshchiivka line, the enemy’s 3rd Combined Arms Army, reinforced by an airborne forces group, will attempt a rapid breakthrough from the bridgehead on the Siverskyi Donets–Donbas canal in the Chasiv Yar area, advancing from the northeast toward Kostyantynivka.
The situation on the Novopavlivka direction may change drastically if the enemy breaks through to the southwest, in the Velykomykhailivka direction, within the operational zone of the enemy's "Vostok (East)" Operational Grouping. Currently, its forces are attempting to advance toward the Donetsk–Zaporizhzhia highway from the south and cut it off in the Komar–Odradne section. This would significantly facilitate the advance of Russian forces on the Novopavlivka direction within the sector of the 90th Tank Division and the 110th, 114th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigades of the 51st Combined Arms Army. To achieve this, the enemy is trying to advance along both the western and eastern banks of the Mokri Yaly River with the forces of the 5th and 36th Combined Arms Armies, as well as the 40th and 336th Separate Marines Brigades, generally moving in the direction of Velyka Novosilka–Komar.
In the near future, the enemy command may shift the main attack direction of the 90th Tank Division toward the Andriivka area (part of the 428th Motorized Rifle Regiment, as well as the 67th and 87th Rifle Regiments). The reinforcement of division units with elements of the 239th or 6th Tank Regiments cannot be ruled out.
Russian operational losses from 23.02.22 to 13.03.25
Personnel - almost 890,250 (+1,200);
Tanks – 10,307 (+1);
Armored combat vehicles – 21,432 (+2);
Artillery systems – 24,409 (+19);
Multiple rocket launchers (MLRS) – 1,314 (0);
Anti-aircraft warfare systems – 1,103 (0);
Vehicles and fuel tanks – 40,355 (+81);
Aircraft - 370 (0);
Helicopters – 331 (0);
UAV operational and tactical level – 28,983 (+71);
Intercepted cruise missiles – 3,121 (0)
Boats/ships – 29 (0).
Humanitarian + general:
Starting in the evening of March 12, Russian forces had attacked Ukraine with an Iskander-M ballistic missile and 117 Shahed-type attack UAVs, along with various types of decoy drones. As of 9:00 AM, 74 attack UAVs have been confirmed shot down, while 38 enemy decoy drones have been lost from radar without causing negative consequences. The Russian attack affected Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Odesa, and Zaporizhzhia Oblasts.
At dawn on March 13, explosions were heard in Zaporizhzhia Oblast. A private house and an administrative building of a critical infrastructure facility were damaged. Yesterday, due to a drone attack in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, 5,728 households and legal entities lost power.
Russian occupiers attacked Dnipropetrovsk Oblast with drones, damaging infrastructure facilities in Dnipro and the Samarskyi district. Four people were injured and hospitalized in moderate condition. Due to the attack on railway energy facilities in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, changes have been observed in the movement of several trains. In Dnipro, as a result of the morning Russian drone attack, about 10,000 people were left without electricity and water supply.
On the night of March 13, Russian forces launched a massive attack on Kherson, killing a woman and injuring a man.
In Kostyantynivka and Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast, eight civilians, including a child, were injured due to Russian strikes on March 13.
A Russian drone attack in Beryslav, Kherson Oblast, killed a 68-year-old man. Another local resident, 85 years old, suffered an explosive injury, concussion, and foot amputation. He is currently in the hospital.
Around 10:00 AM on March 13, the occupiers shelled the village of Bilovody in the Khotin community of Sumy Oblast. Two civilian men, aged 35 and 37, were injured and hospitalized.
Over the past day, the occupiers launched 296 strikes on 14 towns and villages in Zaporizhzhia Oblast. As a result of an enemy attack in Vasylivskyi Raion, a 50-year-old man was injured.
Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) present at Ukrainian nuclear power plants hear air raid alarms almost daily, and a few days ago, drones were once again spotted flying near the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
A new video has surfaced on social media allegedly showing Russians executing five unarmed Ukrainian prisoners of war, according to Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets.
In villages of Donetsk Oblast where forced evacuation of children is underway, six families with six children still remain.
The Defense Council of Sumy Oblast has decided to carry out a mandatory evacuation of residents from eight villages in the Yunakivka and Myropillia communities of Sumy District. In the near future, 543 people, including children, will need to be evacuated.