Black Summer: three hellish months for the enemy.
Summer 2025. russia builds up for another offensive.
🇺🇦But Ukraine's Special Operations Forces had a different operational concept. Thread:
Summer 2025. russia builds up for another offensive.
🇺🇦But Ukraine's Special Operations Forces had a different operational concept. Thread:
1/8 Asymmetric tactics, multi-echelon missions, unconventional planning methodologies, and audacious valor, striking where the enemy has no rear area.
2/8 Direct actions, deep strikes, and special operations by SOF units from June through August. The following are the enemy losses for the period:
3/8 - Savasleyka Airfield: 1 Mikoyan MiG-31K, 1 Sukhoi Su-34;
- Marinovka Airfield: 4 Su-34 aircraft destroyed;
- Borisoglebsk Airfield: ammo depot with guided bombs, 1 training-combat aircraft, likely additional airframes destroyed;
- Marinovka Airfield: 4 Su-34 aircraft destroyed;
- Borisoglebsk Airfield: ammo depot with guided bombs, 1 training-combat aircraft, likely additional airframes destroyed;
4/8 - Strike on drone production facility in Yelabuga;
- Strike on Gun Powder Plant in Tambov Oblast;
- Strike on Iskander missile command post in Kursk Oblast;
- Attack on russia’s 448th Missile Brigade Iskander Base in Kursk Oblast;
- Strike on Gun Powder Plant in Tambov Oblast;
- Strike on Iskander missile command post in Kursk Oblast;
- Attack on russia’s 448th Missile Brigade Iskander Base in Kursk Oblast;
5/8 - Skala-M radar complex in russia-controlled Crimea,
- PORT OLYA-4 vessel loaded with Shahed-type drone components and munitions in Astrakhan Oblast,
- 96L6 radar station in russian-controlled Crimea,
- mobile fuel depot in Crimea.
- PORT OLYA-4 vessel loaded with Shahed-type drone components and munitions in Astrakhan Oblast,
- 96L6 radar station in russian-controlled Crimea,
- mobile fuel depot in Crimea.
6/8 Oil refineries targeted:
- Novokuybyshevsk Refinery;
- Volgograd Refinery;
- Syzyran Refinery;
- LLC NOVATEK-Ust-Luga;
- Ryazan Refinery;
- JSC Kuybyshev Refinery;
- Krasnodar Refinery.
- Novokuybyshevsk Refinery;
- Volgograd Refinery;
- Syzyran Refinery;
- LLC NOVATEK-Ust-Luga;
- Ryazan Refinery;
- JSC Kuybyshev Refinery;
- Krasnodar Refinery.
7/8 Among other damaged and destroyed sites:
- 10 enemy defense-industrial base facilities;
- 58 logistics nodes supporting the operational sustainment and combat resupply of russian forces;
- Dozens of enemy C2 nodes, command posts, transport depots, arsenals, and drone bases.
- 10 enemy defense-industrial base facilities;
- 58 logistics nodes supporting the operational sustainment and combat resupply of russian forces;
- Dozens of enemy C2 nodes, command posts, transport depots, arsenals, and drone bases.
8/8 Three months and hundreds of kilometers deep in enemy territory, hundreds of deep-strikes, dozens of strategic targets destroyed or degraded.
Enemy has suffered significant losses, but greater challenges lie ahead.
Enemy has suffered significant losses, but greater challenges lie ahead.
*Deep strike is a long-range precision strikes conducted by SOF against enemy-held territory.
*Direct action are executed by SOF units, encompassing raids, ambushes, special reconnaissance, and similar kinetic operations.
*Direct action are executed by SOF units, encompassing raids, ambushes, special reconnaissance, and similar kinetic operations.
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