You have commented 339 times on Rantburg.

Your Name
Your e-mail (optional)
Website (optional)
My Original Nic        Pic-a-Nic        Sorry. Comments have been closed on this article.
Bold Italic Underline Strike Bullet Blockquote Small Big Link Squish Foto Photo
Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russian Perspective: Operation to Denazify Ukraine: Operational Brief March 18th (updated)
2023-03-19
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Kindly note that several entries in this article may have been removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.

[NewsFrontInfo] 21:22 “Every day, 13 killed and wounded” – AFU militant complains about the situation near Avdiivka

For this supportin the Avdievka direction, the Ukrainian and his comrades-in-arms arrived quite recently, but they have already been told about the brutality of the clashes here. Making a video “for memory”, the defender honestly shared the plight of the Ukrainian army and the heavy losses among the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, saying that up to 13 KIAs and WIAs are recruited here per day.

20:07 Russian aviation destroyed strongholds of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the vicinity of Avdievka

20:07 Russian paratroopers continue advance in the direction of Svatovo-Kremennaya

19:05 Air alert announced in Kyiv, as well as in Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy and Poltava regions

19:04 Personnel combat work of anti-aircraft gunners of the Marine Corps of the Pacific Fleet near Ugledar

Every day, with Igla portable anti-aircraft missile systems, naval infantry advance to where, according to intelligence, enemy drones can appear, and conduct a circular search for targets in a given sector, providing air cover for advancing units.

MANPADS "Igla" is capable of hitting air targets at ranges from 500 to 3,500 meters. An anti-aircraft gunner with the call sign “Beter” told how he recently managed to shoot down a Ukrainian reconnaissance UAV “Furia”: “They shot down the Furia, hid in the forest belt so that they would not find us, were close to the front. They noticed her through the branches, reported to the headquarters, opened fire on her and shot her down.

Fighting in the Ugledar direction continues with high intensity. The main assault force is made up of naval infantry of the Pacific Fleet, as well as units of the OBTF "Cascade". The battles are going hard, but our troops are gradually pushing through the defenses of the enemy, who is suffering colossal losses.

17:57 Personnel combat work of the calculation of the MLRS 220mm BM-27 "Hurricane" on the accumulation of equipment and manpower of the enemy in the Donetsk direction

17:57 Combat work of Su-25 attack aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forcesin the zone of the special operation

Attack aviation crews carried out rocket air strikes on military facilities and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Missile launches were carried out in pairs from low altitudes

17:55 "ATO warrior, war invalid" drawsto Zelensky with a call to restore order in the country, since it was the president’s rule that led to a mess in the country

16:56 Explosions in Kramatorsk and Konstantinovka - media

Presumably, Russian missiles flew at the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Earlier it was reported that the reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are located in this direction to try to hold the defense of Artemovsk (Bakhmut). They have already been hit multiple times.

16:53 Armed Forces of Ukraine shelled the village of Krasnooktyabrsky, Belgorod region, recorded 10 arrivals - Governor

15:32 The main thing from the new briefing of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:

🔹The troops of the Russian Federation destroyed up to 60 military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kupyansk direction;

🔹The Russian Armed Forces destroyed up to 50 Ukrainian servicemen per day in the South-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions;

🔹The RF Armed Forces destroyed up to 120 military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and two combat vehicles of the Uragan MLRS in the Donetsk direction;

🔹Air defense systems of the Russian Federation intercepted 15 MLRS HIMARS, 300mm BM-30 "Smerch" and "Uragan" missiles per day, destroyed 9 drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine;

🔹The RF Armed Forces hit 89 artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in firing positions;

🔹More than 100 servicemen and one Gvozdika self-propelled gun lost the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnolimansky direction in a day.


14:43 Destroyed artillery fire Ukrainian 122mm self-propelled guns 2S1 "Gvozdika" in the zone of the SVO.

13:28 Ukrainian troops attempted a tank breakthrough in the Zaporozhye direction. On available RIA Novosti personnel, filmed by a drone operator, one can observe Ukrainian equipment hit by Russian units.

12:42 Combat Job of Russian crews of 152mm artillery mounts 2A36 "Hyacinth-B" when performing fire missions to destroy artillery and camouflaged fortified positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in one of the directions in the zone of the NMD

11:42 Soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the 102nd Battalion of the 108th Separate Territorial Defense Brigade tells that the command wants to take disciplinary action against him because of the video in which he told the unpleasant truth about his battalion.

11:41 Here is the amount of wounded Armed Forces of Ukraine are evacuated daily from Artemovsk (Bakhmut)

11:40 Air raid alert announced in all regions of Ukraine

10:22 The Ministry of Defense showed for the first time personnel destruction by the Lancet kamikaze drone of the Czech RM-70 MLRS.

The combat vehicle was discovered by the crews of an unmanned aerial vehicle in the Avdiivka direction and destroyed by high-precision loitering munitions.

09:22 Ramzan Kadyrov appointed a reward of 5 million rubles for the liquidation of the Ukrainian military, who burned pages from the Quran. And he promised 10 million rubles for taking him alive.

“Whenever it happens – today, tomorrow, in a year – the money will be waiting. And it doesn’t matter who does it: a platoon, a group, a loner, a neighbor in a trench, the money will be transferred in full,” Kadyrov wrote.

08:15 "With an understanding of responsibility": combat Job of crews of T-80 ZVO tanks at the forefront in the special operation zone.

In one of the directions in the NVO zone, in order to support motorized riflemen, the crews of T-80 tanks delivered a powerful fire strike on the front line of the enemy’s defense. First of all, gunners-operators destroyed the positions of anti-tank weapons and armored vehicles of the enemy.

There are reports of a UAV flying in the direction of Lvov. Explosions in Volyn.

Earlier, the Gauleiter of the Dnepropetrovsk region confirmed that two UAVs hit a critical infrastructure facility in Novomoskovsk. There is serious destruction.

0:30 Explosions are reported in the Zhytomyr region. Explosions also thundered in the Rivne and Khmelnytsky regions.

0:12 RF Armed Forces inflict control strikes on an object in Novomoskovsk, Dnepropetrovsk region.

Immediately after a fire flared up as a result of the arrival, presumably at the oil depot, in the Novomoskovsk region, the Russian army launched a second control strike with the help of the Geranium.

Posted by:badanov

#5  GOPe RINOs are more of a threat to America than Putin is.
Posted by: M. Murcek    2023-03-19 20:08  

#4   Russia and Putin are right wing America's hope. (Etc...)

Spoken by someone who firmly — nay fervently — believes what he reads on the internet. Truly, Slish Angunter7690, you are even more gullible than I.

Speaking for myself alone, I had hoped Vladimir Putin would be his own country’s salvation, despite his career in the KGB, his very expensive mistresses and the bare-chested nonsense with horses and tigers, and the 2014 war in the Donbas. Unfortunately, as it turns out, he forgot to check what his generals were telling him, and he believed what President Biden said publicly about the Ukraine, despite knowing that man is both a corrupt, serial liar and senile. Despite deeply loving Mother Russia, Putin has betrayed her future as none has done since the Bolsheviks drove out the more moderate revolutionaries and established their 70+ year reign of terror.
Posted by: trailing wife   2023-03-19 19:59  

#3   This elderly Russian lady has more brains and virtue than all the pro Russians in the USA and almost all her fellow countrymen. I wish this was the average Russian:

https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1637578666044424198
Posted by: Slish Angunter7690   2023-03-19 19:41  

#2   Russia and Putin are right wing America's hope.

I mean, they mistreat gay folks and trannies so little stuff like mass murder, rape, tyranny and no free speech isn't a thing to my righty fellow countrymen who prefer Russia:

https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1637439261459767299
Posted by: Slish Angunter7690   2023-03-19 19:20  

#1  Surprise visit by Putin. No fear here. 'The president visited several districts of the city to inspect the progress of restoration efforts, including the construction of “new residential districts, social and educational facilities, housing and communal services infrastructure, medical institutions.” He also toured the “coastline in the area of the yacht club, theater,” as well as other “memorable places” in the city.'Mariupol
Posted by: Dale   2023-03-19 09:45  

00:00