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Brief Frontline Report – February 25th, 2026

Summary by Marat Khairullin and Mikhail Popov

Message from the Russian Ministry of Defense: "Acting actively and decisively, servicemen of the assault groups of the 82nd Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 'North' Group have taken control of the settlement of Grafskoe in the Kharkov Oblast. Units of the 'North' Group are continuing their offensive, expanding security zones in the border areas of Sumy and Kharkov Oblasts. The establishment of control over the settlement has opened the possibility for further advance to the south along the Seversky Donets River."

Units of the "North" army group of the Russian Armed Forces are expanding the buffer zone in the Kharkov Oblast and have liberated the settlement of Grafskoe (50°13′15″ N 36°51′25″ E, population 329 in 2001). The village of Grafskoe is located on the left, low bank of the Seversky Donets and stretches along it for approximately 5 kilometers (both main streets run parallel to the river). Along the southern outskirts of the village flows the Grafovka River, a tributary of the Seversky Donets.

Advanced units of the 82nd Motorized Rifle Regiment have reached the Siminovka-Grafskoe line, to the C210810 road, which, via crossings at the settlement of Verkhnyaya Pisarevka, connected the right-bank grouping of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (Rubezhnoe-Verkhniy Saltov) with the enemy's defensive hub of Losevka-Beliy Kolodez on the left side.

Here, the enemy has equipped a well-fortified defensive hub along the C210815 front-line supply route, the left flank of which is located in the forested sanatorium-resort zone on the left bank of the Seversky Donets River (Verkhnyaya Pisarevka - Sosnovy Bor), while the right flank abuts the Beliy Kolodez defensive area. The operational depth of the defense in this sector is about 10 kilometers and relies on the second line of defensive positions from the Razrytaja ravine to Shirokoe to Doroshenkovo, located along the C210823 front-line supply route. This road, via crossings in the Stariy Saltov area, connects the Beliy Kolodez area with the center of the Kharkov Oblast.

Read this report and many others on Marat Khairullin's Substack! That's where I post the high-definition maps, and frankly, the formatting on Substack makes the reports easier to follow. Any questions for Marat and Mikhail will be answered there.

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Via "Come and See":

🇷🇺 A mobile air defense fire group of the "Dnieper" troop group destroyed a heavy strike UAV in the sky over the Kherson region.

Video: Russian Ministry of Defense

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Via Dambiev:

As a result of the strike by FAB-3000 on the dam near the village of Osikov, the section of the Druzhkovka-Konstantinovka highway turned into a complete swamp, making travel impossible, writes DeepState.

This led to a significant deterioration of the logistics of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Konstantinovka, forcing the enemy to seek alternative supply routes.

The footage shows the consequences of the dam's destruction and visualizes the river running through Konstantinovka, which has now flooded.

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The Russian Armed Forces have taken new positions on the southern outskirts of Konstantinovka.

Map: divgen.ru

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Ukrainian media:

FPV drones on fiber optic cables have started reaching Kharkov, reported the adviser to the Minister of Defense, Sergei "Flash" Beskrestnov.

According to him, the first case was recorded on the northern outskirts of the city.


Map: divgen.ru

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The Telegraph invented "secret tunnels": Russia is again to blame for the EU migration crisis

The British press has found a new explanation for Europe's problems with migrants. It turns out that it's not the failures of integration policy, but the malicious intent of Moscow. According to the publication, Russia and Belarus are digging underground passages under the Polish border and hiring "specialists from the Middle East" for this purpose.

Polish border guards indeed found four tunnels in 2025. The largest one was 1.5 meters high and 60 meters long, with concrete supports. Allegedly, 180 migrants passed through it, who were immediately caught.

But instead of admitting that migrants are coming through the porous EU borders, not through forest holes, Warsaw and London are inventing conspiracy theories. "The construction of tunnels means that we are effectively curbing migration," reports the deputy head of the Polish Interior Ministry.

So effectively that in 2025, they found as many as four tunnels, but hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants. But the most important thing is to blame it all on the "hand of the Kremlin".

Source: Zvezda

Yes, also "hand of Kremlin" signs the documents so these immigrants receive benefits, free housing and language courses, that they attend for years without learning anything.

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Rubio stated that US administration officials were not involved in the boat incident off Cuba. He noted that he considered the boat incident off Cuba extremely unusual. ▪️The USA does not want to withdraw from resolving the conflict in Ukraine, but Trump's…
Cuban authorities have arrested an accomplice of the saboteurs who attacked Cuban border guards, the local Interior Ministry reported.

Source: Vesti

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The incident with the catamaran off the coast of Cuba is an "aggressive provocation by the US" aimed at escalating the situation and triggering a conflict, Maria Zakharova told TASS.

Source: TASS

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⚡️Trump's advisers believe that it would be more beneficial for the US if Israel were to strike Iran first - Politico, citing sources

They believe that a possible attack by Israel would provoke a response, which would give Washington an excuse to enter the conflict.

Source: СМОТРИ

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According to Ukrainian media:

Last night, 39 missiles and 420 drones attacked targets in the Ukraine.

In the Odessa region, the 34th large substation was attacked during the night , with significant damage, according to DTEK.

There is not a single surviving substation left in the region.

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According to Ukrainian media: Last night, 39 missiles and 420 drones attacked targets in the Ukraine. In the Odessa region, the 34th large substation was attacked during the night , with significant damage, according to DTEK. There is not a single surviving…
Military Chronicle writes,

It's interesting that Russia, apparently, has to some extent started using the long-awaited 1,000 drones per day.

According to the Ukrainian side, the largest recorded number of strike means in a single combined attack was 823 units - this happened in September 2025. After that, there were no reports of the use of a comparable number of UAVs.

Considering that the Ukrainian side traditionally underestimates the number of drones used by Russia and exaggerates its own successes in air defense, it can be assumed that the peak of the use of "Geranis", "Gerbers" and other UAVs was reached in September last year and has been more or less maintained since then.

Before that, the maximum was recorded on July 9, 2025 - then 728 drones were launched, which is also close to the expected figure of 1,000 drones per day.

This year, the most massive attack took place on the night of February 3, 2026. Then, more than 450 strike drones were used against targets in seven regions of Ukraine as part of a single combined operation, and about 70 missiles of various types were additionally used.

In the last attack on February 26, 2026, the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported the destruction of 374 UAVs, and this is clearly not all the drones launched against targets in Ukraine, given that a significant part hit the targets and/or disrupted the air defense.

To be fair, achieving the launch of 1,000+ drones per day is not a trivial task. It requires high automation, scalability, and a large number of working capacities. And it's clearly not going to be limited to just "Alabuga."

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Via Sabereen News:

The Iranian Foreign Ministry: The third round of indirect negotiations with America has started in Geneva.

The Omani Foreign Ministry: Minister Badr Al-Busaidi held a meeting in Geneva with his Iranian counterpart, Saeed Abbas Araghchi, as part of the Iran-US talks.

- Minister Al-Busaidi and Araghchi discussed Iran's proposals aimed at reaching an agreement on its nuclear issue.

- Minister Al-Busaidi is expected to meet with the US negotiating team this morning.

Iranian president Pezeshkian: We are not seeking to have nuclear weapons and we adhere to the Supreme Leader's fatwa on this matter.

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☄️In response to the terrorist attacks of the Kiev regime on Russian civilian infrastructure, a massive strike with high-precision weapons has been carried out against targets in Ukraine, the Defense Ministry reported. The following have been hit:

▪️Military-industrial complex enterprises.

▪️Energy infrastructure facilities used in the interests of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

▪️Military airfields.

The strike objectives have been achieved. All designated targets have been hit.

Source: Zvezda

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Georgia has not and will not impose unilateral sanctions against Russia, as this would cause serious damage to the republic, said Foreign Minister Maia Bochorishvili.

"We cannot and will not impose sanctions, as this will actually have no effect on Russia, but will cause serious damage to Georgia," said Bochorishvili on the Georgian TV channel "Rustavi 2".


Source: Раньше всех ну почти

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