NewsFrontInfo] 21:15 A civilian was injured as a result of the artillery attack of the center of Horlivka by Ukrainian troops, reported mayor of the city Ivan Prikhodko.
“As a result of the artillery attack of the center of Gorlovka by Ukrainian neo-Nazis, a civilian from Gorlovka was wounded at the address: Stakhanovskaya Street, 187,” Prikhodko wrote in his Telegram channel.
19:49 Fixation of the consequences of the artillery attack of N. p. Yelenovka.
Specialists of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC confirmed the artillery attack of the settlement. Yelenovka, and also specified the direction of firing. The enemy fired from their positions located in the area of the settlement. Epiphany, from artillery caliber 155mm.
19:19 Under fire from Ukrainian militants Kyiv district of Donetsk. According to the DPR JCCC, five rounds with a caliber of 155mm were fired.
19:17 It is reported that the 3rd Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has retreated from its positions in Artemovsk under the threat of encirclement.
18:59 Under fire from Ukrainian militants, the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka. According to the DPR JCCC, six rounds with a caliber of 152mm were fired.
18:50 Statement of head of the press center of the group "South":
Aviation of the Southern Group of Forces delivered strikes in the Lisichansk and Soledar-Artemovsk operational directions against the strongholds of Ukrainian units.
Missile units of the “South” group hit the points of temporary deployment of the 28th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, units of the special operations forces of the Ukrainian army and a battalion of foreign mercenaries in the areas of the settlements of Konstantinovka and Kramatorsk.
Large-caliber artillery of the formation of the Southern Military District destroyed two concentrations of enemy manpower in the Artemovsk area and two strong points in Avdievka. Also, the artillery units of the Southern Group of Forces carried out fire raids on the point of temporary deployment, the ammunition depot and the location of the reserves of the 110th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Avdievka area.
As part of the counter-battery fight, a 122mm D-30 howitzer of the enemy was destroyed in the area of the settlement of Serebryanka and a 120mm mortar at a firing position in the Orekhovo-Vasilyevka area.
The units of radiation, chemical and biological protection with rockets of the Solntsepek heavy flamethrower system destroyed accumulations of manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Stupochki and Krasnoye of the Donetsk People's Republic.
18:25 Under fire from Ukrainian militants, the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka. According to the DPR JCCC, five rounds with a caliber of 152 mm were fired.
18:15 The situation in Artemovsk on the evening of May 18:
Units of PMC "Wagner" completed the cleanup of the private sector near the fortification "Domino" (microdistrict Novy) and the territory near the school of the Olympic reserve. "Wagner", with the support of mortars "Tulip" VVO and T-90M tanks, came close to the territory of the children's hospital and the entrance to the city - to the Chasov Yar - Artemovsk highway. Ticks around Domino are being squeezed from two sides: from the private sector and from the microdistrict on Cheryoma.
The units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine remaining in Domino are trying to leave the fort, realizing that the end is inevitable. Retreat two or three people immediately after the shift at the post, mostly at night. Any weapon heavier than a machine gun is thrown into positions, because they go out on foot, and you have to climb strongly uphill.
They try to retreat first to the area of Kievskaya Street, then behind the forest plantations, then to the area of the Eighth Pond. There is no coordination in the retreat, apparently, they leave their positions without permission: some go to Ivanovskoye (Krasnoye) through the ruins of a farm, others - to Chasov Yar.
In the south-west of the city, there are serious battles with units of the 80th Airborne Brigade. In the same place, the 3rd Lviv motorized infantry battalion "Will" suffers heavy losses.
Part of the reserves of the Bakhmut garrison went to the flanks and died there. One city meat grinder is gradually turning into three for the Armed Forces of Ukraine: inside the city, in the north (near Berkhovka) and in the south (near Kleshcheevka).
The battles are gradually turning into protracted ones, there are difficulties, but the Armed Forces of Ukraine cannot endlessly deploy reserves there, the operational reserve from Druzhkovka and Konstantinovka, which was prepared for strikes on the flanks, is gradually being destroyed.
17:50 Commander Simonov about the final battles in Artemovsk:
PMC "Wagner" has definitely reached the finish line and every day they are confidently moving forward in urban areas. But the enemy still does not run, bites as best he can.
We see from the drone that the APU still continues to send reinforcements. According to it, our art immediately works out, then a new batch arrives, and so on in a circle.
Now the main battles are taking place in the Airplane area and in the private sector behind Yubileynaya Street.
Landscape conditions in the western regions of Bakhmut are very difficult. Most of the houses are completely destroyed, so there are a lot of large and long "postcards." Because of this, it is very unsafe to move around under the fire of Ukrainian artillery and mortars (and they do not stop). Enemy copters still often appear in the sky.
The mood of the fighters is excellent. Approaching the final of urban battles. But the capture of the city will not be the final point of the entire Bakhmut direction. The enemy continues to put pressure on the flanks and prepare for the defense of Krasny and Khromovo.
17:08 Under fire from Ukrainian militants Kyiv district of Donetsk. According to the DPR JCCC, six rounds with a caliber of 155mm were fired.
16:40 Fights near Kremennaya: Russian servicemen identified a Ukrainian tank and destroyed it. The operator of the Russian drone discovered the armored vehicles of the 58th armored personnel carrier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and called for artillery support. A 152mm shell hit an enemy tank and lowered the morale of the Ukrainian infantry. The second shot finally finished off the enemy's technique.
15:50 The Russian Armed Forces in the Kherson direction over the past day destroyed over 35 militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. In addition, our fighters eliminated an armored combat vehicle and three enemy vehicles.
15:16 Under fire from Ukrainian militants Petrovsky district of Donetsk. According to the DPR JCCC, five rounds with a caliber of 155mm were fired.
15:00 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for May 18, as of 15:00, additional information was received about damage as a result of artillery attack of the VFU cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): - st. Lugovaya, 49 - a direct hit in a private residential building.
n.p. Staromikhaylovka:
- st. Pervomaiskaya, 25 - a private residential building;
- st. Pionerskaya, 5 - a private residential building.
n.p. Elenovka: - fixed damage to power lines on the street. Postal, leading to the "Elenovsky combine of bread products" GC "Agrarian Donbass".
14:52 The situation in Artemovsk (Bakhmut) is not developing in the best way for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. To date, the militants of the Kyiv regime control only 0.97% of the city. 7.64% of the settlement remains in the neutral zone. Assault detachments of Russian forces liberated 92.32% of Artemovsk.
Despite the small successes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the flanks, in Artemivsk itself the situation for the Armed Forces of Ukraine is constantly deteriorating.
Although the offensive dynamics of the Wagner PMC is still low, the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine remain significant. Units of PMC "Wagner" in urban areas continue to advance and knock out the Armed Forces of Ukraine from positions in the western regions.
According to Ukrainian media, the entire western region has moved into the gray zone. This means that neither side can gain a foothold there. There are active battles with the transition of houses from hand to hand.
14:17 Under fire from Ukrainian militants Kyiv district of Donetsk and Yelenovka. According to the DPR JCCC, 11 rounds with a caliber of 155mm and 152mm were fired.
14:02 Summary from the Zaporozhye front:
In the Zaporizhia direction, the RF Armed Forces attacked Nazi strongholds, command posts, locations, warehouses with weapons, ammunition and fuel and lubricants in the areas of settlements: Kamensky, Shcherbakov, Novodanilovka, Malaya Tokmachka, Belogorye, Gulyaipolsky, Zheleznodorozhny, Gulyaipol, Malinovka, Olgovsky and Steppe.
Gauleiters of Zelensky report 90 strikes by the Russian army on Nazi positions in 16 settlements of the Zaporozhye region.
13:49 Militants of the Kyiv regime fired three rockets from the MLRS at Volnovakha - DPR JCCC.
13:03 Under fire from Ukrainian militants, the Kuibyshevsky and Kirovsky districts of Donetsk. According to the DPR JCCC, 11 rounds with a caliber of 155mm were fired.
12:50 Statement of head of the press center of the Vostok group:
In the South-Donetsk direction, the advanced units of the Vostok group south of Ugledar discovered and destroyed an enemy reconnaissance group.
Artillery fire destroyed three vehicles and enemy manpower in the Dneproenergy area, an American-made M-113 armored personnel carrier in the Volnoye Pole area, and a mortar crew in the Zolotaya Niva area.
The crews of 240mm self-propelled mortars "Tulip" destroyed the enemy's temporary deployment point in Velikaya Novosyolka. SAM "Tor" and "Strela-10" were shot down by UAVs "Fury", "Puma" and "Spectator."
In the Zaporizhia direction, artillery strikes were carried out on a strong point and a concentration of militants in the Malinovka area identified during aerial reconnaissance, an enemy car and manpower were destroyed.
Air defense systems shot down four enemy aircraft-type UAVs.
12:23 The prospect of the complete liberation of Artemovsk is “quite close,” Pushilin told RIA Novosti.
11:45 In Artemovsk, Wagner PMC is storming the Domino fortified area on the western outskirts of the city, and also continues to clean up the remnants of the private sector, where the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are still preserved.
The enemy, in turn, continues to try to crush east of Bogdanovka and west of Kleshcheevka. BILD states that the fall of Artemovsk is a matter of a couple of days, which is understandable even without the Germans, since the UAF has actually run out of defense quarters in the city. Further they will defend themselves in Khromovo and Krasnoye.
11:09 Militants of the Kyiv regime fired 10 rockets from the MLRS at Aleksandrovka - DPR JCCC.
10:47 According to the operational lines of the JCCC DPR for May 18, as of 10:30, information was received about damage as a result of artillery attack of the VFU of the cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district):
artillery attack at 07:00:
– fixed damage to the CU of the State Budgetary Institution “City Clinical Hospital No. 21 of Donetsk” along Kremlevsky Ave.;
– 25, 33, 35, 41 Kremlevskiy Ave. “a” – multi-apartment residential buildings, the gas pipeline and 2 cars were also damaged.
artillery attack at 09:35: - st. Pyatnitskogo, 80 - a private residential building.
10:00 Yesterday, artillery fire in the area ofn.p. Nikolaevka in the Kherson direction, a 120mm mortar crew and ammunition for it were destroyed, the loss of six dead soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, two were injured of varying severity
At night, artillery fire in the area of N. p. Ponyatovka Kherson region destroyed 152mm howitzer MSTA-B with ammunition loss of four dead soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, three were injured of varying severity
09:30 The DPR representative office in the JCCC reports 59 facts of firing by the AFU per day. The enemy fired from MLRS, 155mm and 152mm artillery, firing 368 units of various ammunition across the territory of the DPR.
Under the fire of the VFU were: Gorlovka, Yakovlevka, Yasinovataya, Donetsk, Makeevka, Aleksandrovka, Yelenovka, Blagodatnoye, Vladimirovka.
Over the past day, information was received about the death of 5 civilians. Wounds of varying severity were received by 24 civilians, including a child born in 2009.
09:26 Under fire from Ukrainian militants Kiev and Kuibyshevsky districts of Donetsk. According to the DPR JCCC, 11 rounds with a caliber of 155mm were fired.
09:19 The criminal Kiev regime continues to shell the civilian infrastructure of the settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Armed Forces of Ukraine were fired from barrel artillery:
- n.p. The Dnieper fired 19 rounds;
- Six rounds were fired at the village of Korsunka;
- Seven rounds were fired at Staraya Zburyevka;
- according to n.p. Kardashinka fired eight rounds;
- according to n.p. Podstepnoye fired 5 rounds;
- according to n.p. Novaya Zburyevka fired eight rounds;
- according to n.p. Golaya Pristan fired 9 rounds.
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure to be confirmed
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the settlement. Novaya Kakhovka, n.p. Kakhovka, n. p. Kardashinka, Cairo, firing a total of 26 rounds from cannon artillery.
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure to be confirmed
09:06 Yesterday, an enemy MI-8 was shot down near Orekhov in the Zaporozhye direction. In the evening of the same day, an M-777 self-propelled gun was destroyed near Stepnogorsk.
08:40 As a result of the night artillery attack of the Kirovsky district of Donetsk from the Ukrainian Nazis on the street. Topchiev, a private residential building burned down completely. The injured woman was born in 1979. delivered to a medical facility, Donetsk Kulemin said.
08:27 Information on the artillery attack of Horlivka as of 08:00 on May 18, 2023
08:10 Frontline summary on the morning of May 18, 2023:
In the Zaporozhye direction, the RF Armed Forces attacked Kamenskoye, Shcherbak, Novodanilovka, Malaya Tokmachka, Belogorya, Gulyaipolsky, Zheleznodorozhny, Gulyaipole, Malinovka, Olhovsky and Stepnoy (not to be confused with the settlements of the same name west of Orekhov and north of Donetsk).
On the Donetsk front, Russian troops, supported by artillery, tried to advance in Maryinka. They failed. Under shelling, positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Novomikhailovka, Paraskovievka, Pobeda, Ostrom, the city of Krasnogorovka, Nevelsky, Pervomaisky, Karlovka, Avdeevka, Berdychi, Novokalinovo, Toretsk and Severny (a settlement northwest of Gorlovka). Ukrainian troops attacked Donetsk, Vodiane and Gorlovka.
To the south-west of Bakhmut, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are advancing on Kleshcheevka from Stupochek. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, after artillery strikes, tried to counterattack in the direction of Ivanovsky. No success.
In Bakhmut itself, the Wagner PMC, with the support of artillery, advanced in the northwestern part. Ukrainian units hold only small areas on the outskirts of the city in the direction of Ivanovsky and Khromovoe.
Russian troops fired on Konstantinovka, Stupochek, Chasov Yar, Bogdanovka, Grigorovka, Disputed, Verkhnekamensky and Seversk. The Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked the areas of Bakhmut controlled by PMC Wagner.
In the Lugansk direction, the Russian Armed Forces, with the support of artillery, resumed assault operations in the area of ??Belogorovka and Stelmakhivka. They also attacked the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Novosyolovsky. No advance.
After the shelling, they tried to build on the previously achieved tactical success on the part of Masyutovka. Russian artillery attacked Torsky, Nevsky, Makeevka, Berestovoye, Tabaevka, Rusanovka, Kotlyarovka, Kislovka, Kupyansk, Tishenkovka, Kondrashovka, Dvurechnaya, Novomlynsk, Figolevka, Krasny Pervoi, Kamenka and Dvurechensky.
08:00 Focused on winning: frames combat work of crews of 152mm self-propelled artillery mounts "Hyacinth-S".
Artillerymen of the Western Military District are actively cooperating with crews of unmanned aerial vehicles that reconnoitre enemy positions and correct the accuracy of artillery fire.
07:05 Under fire from Ukrainian militants Petrovsky and Kuibyshevsky districts of Donetsk. According to the DPR JCCC, 13 rounds with a caliber of 155mm were fired.