Frontline Updates: Daily Brief, 25 April 2026, Border Gains, Drone Brigades, and Deep Strikes

Welcome to "Frontline Updates". I’m your host. Today we’re analyzing the Russian Ministry of Defense daily briefing for April 25, 2026,  a day that saw a massive long-range precision strike against Ukrainian energy, fuel, ports, and defense industries; the capture of the border village of Bochkovo by the NORTH Group; and continued advances in depth by the EAST Group in Dnepropetrovsk region. We’re also seeing something new: Russian forces explicitly engaging Ukrainian "unmanned systems brigades",  entire units built around drones. To help us understand what this means operationally, we are joined again by Colonel A.C. Oguntoye, an infantry officer with extensive combined arms experience. Colonel Oguntoye will walk us through each of the six ground sectors, then we’ll devote a full segment to the operational-tactical aviation and deep strike campaign. We close with tactical and strategic implications. Let’s begin. #OperationalArt #DeepStrikes #DroneWarfare #AttritionCampaign #SituationReport #LogisticsDegradation #MultiDomainOperations #RussianSMO #UkraineWar2026 #bf7 #mw3