Another Russian offensive fizzles out with no gains, Ukrainian military reports
Photo: The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine summed up the results of the Russian summer offensive (Getty Images)
The Russian command, passing off wishful thinking as reality, summed up the “spring-summer campaign of 2025.” In fact, another Russian seasonal offensive ended with virtually nothing, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
During the offensive, the Russian army failed to gain full control over any major Ukrainian city. Instead, since the beginning of the year, the enemy has lost nearly 210,000 soldiers killed and wounded, and thousands of pieces of military equipment:
- 2,174 armored fighting vehicles;
- 1,201 tanks;
- 7,303 artillery systems;
- 157 multiple launch rocket systems.
Sumy region
“The enemy’s fake reports about security zones in the Sumy and Kharkiv regions are nothing more than an attempt to conceal the failures of operations that turned into a dead end and tens of thousands of losses for the enemy,” the General Staff stated.
Since the beginning of 2025 in the operational zone of the Kursk group of forces, Defense Forces soldiers have eliminated 19,080 troops, and more than 25,000 have been wounded. Currently, the Defense Forces are conducting active operations in the Sumy region, have liberated Kindrativka and Andriivka, and are driving the enemy out of other border settlements.
Territory seizure
The Russian command has significantly exaggerated the data about seized territories.
“At the same time, the 100% confirmed result achieved by the Russians since the beginning of 2025 is their total losses of more than 291,000 soldiers killed and wounded. The mass awarding of 120,000 Russian servicemen only confirms the scale of the losses,” the General Staff added.
Strikes on military facilities
The Russian command also reported on the “destruction of the Ukrainian missile industry” and “precision strikes on military facilities.” According to the Ukrainian General Staff, such claims are nothing more than a “propaganda illusion,” and from these “precision strikes,” Ukrainians lose their homes and loved ones every day.
“Wherever a Russian Iskander falls, that is where a ‘UAF command post’ or a ‘base of foreign mercenaries’ supposedly ‘turns up.’ The consequence of Russia’s constant violations of international humanitarian law is human lives,” the General Staff emphasized.
They added that the report of the Russian command is a “typical example of aggressive Kremlin lies and arrogance.” The Ukrainian Defense Forces are holding the front, destroying and exhausting the occupier.
“And they prove: no Kremlin propaganda will conceal the failure of Russia’s spring-summer campaign of 2025,” the General Staff summarized.
According to the Ukrainian General Staff, just over the past day, August 30, the Russian army lost more than 800 soldiers in battles with the Defense Forces.
