[NewsFrontInfo] 23:59 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 08/18/2023 to 00:00 08/19/2023
Over the past day, the Representation reported 44 facts of firing by the AFU.
Information was received about the death of six civilians in the Kievsky and Voroshilovsky districts of Donetsk.
A total of 11 civilians received injuries of varying severity in the Voroshilovsky and Kievsky districts of Donetsk, the Chervonogvardeysky district of Makeevka, Vasil'yevka and Nikol'sky.
A total of 16 residential buildings were damaged in the Kuibyshevsky and Kievsky districts of Donetsk, the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka and Novoandreevka, as well as one civil infrastructure facility.
Under enemy fire were areas of eight settlements of the Republic : Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district), Gol'movsky, Zaitsevo, Yasinovatsky district, the capital city of Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Kievsky, Petrovsky districts), Makeevka (Chervonogvardeysky district), Nikolskoye, Novoandreevka.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy made 30 attacks from the MLRS, 155mm artillery, incl. with a cluster warhead.
On Gorlovsky 11 artillery attacks from 152mm artillery.
On Yasinovatsky one artillery attack from 155mm artillery.
On Volnovakhskoye two artillery attacks from 155mm artillery.
By releasing 150 units of various ammunition.
In the previous day, 70 artillery attack s were recorded from the side of the VFU.
21:27 Crews of the Su-25 assault aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces inflicted missile air strikes on military facilities and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
20:50 Fighter pilots of the Northern Fleet held battle with a mock enemy over the Arctic
19:55 Comedy in the Zaporozhye direction - attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine drowned due to a tank stuck in a pit:
The Ukrainian militants were so blinded by the illusory hope of attacking the positions of the Russian army in the Orekhovsky section of the Zaporozhye direction that they did not notice the funnel from the FAB-500 that had previously flown there and flew into it at full speed. The footage of Readovka shows another comical “counterattack” of the enemy: the tank of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was simply stuck in a pit, having completely lost its combat potential, and the militants abandoned the armored vehicle and fled in a hurry.
Despite the constant attempts of the enemy to attack our positions on the Orekhovsky sector of the front, the Russian army continues to hold back the advancing forces and inflict fire damage on them. At the same time, the stupidity and inattention of the Armed Forces of Ukraine also plays a role - the militants cannot even organize a normal offensive, drowning in the mud of craters and abandoning their equipment.
19:50 In the battle near Rabotino, the Russian army surrendered militants from the “elite” reserve 82nd Airborne Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine thrown into the offensive:
The militants were taken prisoner immediately after their unit was thrown into the offensive in the Orekhovsky direction of the Zaporozhye Front.
19:35 Statement of head of the press center of the Vostok group:
The advanced subunits of the Vostok grouping of troops, with the support of artillery and aviation, inflicted fire damage on the enemy in the area of Urozhaynoye.
During the battle, two groups of infantry and a mortar crew were destroyed, an attempt to rotate units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was thwarted, accumulations of manpower were hit, including in the forest belts on the outskirts of the settlement.
As part of the counterbattery fight, a 152mm D-20 howitzer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed in the Vremevka area and an M-119 artillery gun manufactured by the United States in the Neskuchny area.
Artillery fire destroyed two enemy tanks in the areas of Urozhaynoye and Oktyabr State Farm, a temporary deployment point for militants in Vugledar, and a ground control station for unmanned aircraft in Novomikhailovka. The strongholds and places of accumulation of manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of Staromayorsky, Priyutnoye, Ravnopol and north of Nikol'sky were hit.
Loitering ammunition "Lancet" destroyed two 122mm self-propelled artillery installations "Gvozdika" in Velyka Novoselka and Vremovka.
Aircraft hit the places of accumulation of manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of Velikaya Novoselka, Oktyabr State Farm, Harvest, Staromayorsky and Razdol'ny.
Three aircraft-type UAVs "Valkyrie", "Fury" and "Leleka" were shot down by means of air defense.
Servicemen of the Vostok Group of Forces demonstrate professionalism and dedication in carrying out combat missions
The operator of the calculation of the artillery reconnaissance station of the tank brigade of the group, junior sergeant Yegor Shubin, as part of the unit, performed the tasks of identifying enemy artillery positions in one of the sectors of the South-Donetsk direction.
During one of the battles, despite the incessant mortar artillery attack of the Ukrainian troops, Junior Sergeant Shubin managed to personally determine the coordinates of the artillery pieces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and transmit information about their location to the command post.
In the future, all the objects of the nationalists discovered were hit by artillery fire.
18:40 At cemetery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Staromayorsky:
Recently, a video appeared on the network illustrating the loss of enemy equipment in the battles for the village of Staromayorskoe. On the streets of the settlement and in the nearest foreground there are 31 skeletons from various wheeled armored vehicles, tanks and infantry fighting vehicles.
According to them, one can judge the scale of the battles for a generally small settlement and partially recreate the nature of the hostilities. Enemy equipment was methodically destroyed on distant approaches to the village by artillery and aviation fire, and also undermined by mines.
A large part was destroyed during the assault on the village itself. Probably, the armored vehicles were either hit in close combat or covered by artillery during the landing. Each destroyed armored vehicle is at least two crew members, and in some cases, troops.
18:25 Operational lines of The DPR JCCC for August 18, as of 15:30, received information about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Kyiv region):
- as a result of the detonation of a previously unexploded cluster submunition on the street. Treneva, 3 "c" killed employees of the utility company - men born in 1996 and 1998, two more employees were injured of varying severity - men born in 1998 and 1971.
n.p. Makeevka (Chervonogvardeisky district):
- on the street. Usol'skaya, 91 wounded man born in 1952
n.p. Nikolskoye:
- on the street. Stepnoy, 20, a man born in 1957 was injured.
Information was received about damage as a result of artillery attack of the VFU cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Kyiv region):
- st. Rudanskogo, 17 - a private residential building, a gas pipeline fire was recorded;
- st. Rudzutaka, 38, 40, 55, 57 - private residential buildings.
n.p. Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district):
artillery attack at 10:00:
- st. Vvedensky, 40 - a private residential building.
artillery attack at 10:40:
– infrastructure of the Michurinsk penal colony;
- st. Karbysheva, 3 - a private residential building;
- st. Fotieva, 80 - a private residential building.
n.p. Novoandreevka:
- st. Gagarin, 1 - a private residential building.
17:35 Combat work of the crews of the 152mm Msta-SM2 self-propelled guns of the Western Military District to destroy armored vehicles and camouflaged fortified positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Kupyanskoe direction:
Having received data from reconnaissance, the battery of 152mm self-propelled howitzers "Msta-SM2" of the Western Military District advanced to the firing line. Pointing the guns, the crews destroyed all the targets with rapid fire. Shooting was carried out with high-explosive fragmentation ammunition at a distance of more than 20 kilometers.
Russian howitzers at the forefront of the line of contact - a bone in the throat for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Every day they hamper the maneuvers of enemy units, destroy key units of fortified areas, weapons and military equipment, including those supplied from abroad.
17:10 APU trying to storm Russian positions with “military police”: “Brave” are actively defending in the Krasnolimansky direction
In the area of N. p. Torskoye repelled two attacks of armored groups of the 21st and 63rd Separate Mechanized Brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The enemy was defeated by small arms and artillery fire. An armored car with a landing party was destroyed.
The command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine sent militants of the 5th Brigade of the National Guard to the area of the Serebryansky forest. The result of a hopeless attack is obvious - the Russian artillery "grounded" the Nazis. The MLRS hit the 95 Air Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
At the turn of Raigorodka - Karmazinovka, the warehouse of 68 Separate Jaeger Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was opened and destroyed by an artillery strike.
16:40 According to some information, the enemy trying to gain a foothold in the north of Rabotino.
In these frames, the 100mm Rapira cannon destroys the ammunition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
15:55 Lancet operators caught rather rare Slovak 155mm self-propelled guns "Zuzana-2".
Taking into account the detonation of ammunition, it cannot be restored.
15:20 Summary Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation (as of August 18, 2023)
- In the Donetsk direction, active and well-coordinated actions of the units of the "Southern" group of forces, with the support of assault and army aviation, successfully repelled three attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Avdeevka, Berestovoe and Mar'yinka DPR in a day.
Enemy losses amounted to up to 220 Ukrainian servicemen killed and wounded, a tank, three armored combat vehicles, five vehicles, a US-made M777 artillery system, a 152mm D-20 howitzer and two 122mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mounts.
In addition, in the areas of the settlements of Dyleevka, Dzerzhinsk and Novopokrovskoye DPR, three points of ammunition supply of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were destroyed.
– In the South-Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok grouping of forces, operational-tactical aviation strikes, artillery fire and heavy flamethrower systems repelled an enemy attack in the area of the settlement of Nikol'skoye DPR, and also inflicted defeat on units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of settlements of Urozhainoe and Staromayorsky DPR.
As a result of the fighting, up to 210 Ukrainian servicemen, a tank, two infantry fighting vehicles, two armored fighting vehicles, three vehicles, a US-made M777 artillery system, and a 100mm MT-12 Rapira anti-tank gun were destroyed in a day.
- In the Kupyansky direction, as a result of army aviation strikes and artillery fire, competent actions of units of the "Western" group of troops, seven attacks and counterattacks of the enemy were successfully repelled during the day, in the areas of the settlements of Novoselovskoye LPR, Sin'kovka, Ol'shana and the Man'kovka tract of the Kharkov region.
Also, in the area of the village of Kamenki, Khar'kov region, an ammunition depot of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed.
Enemy losses in this direction amounted to 75 Ukrainian servicemen, three armored combat vehicles, two pickup trucks, and a Polish-made Krab self-propelled artillery mount.
- In the Krasnolimansky direction, the professional actions of the units of the group of troops "Center", the strikes of army aviation and artillery fire repelled two enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Grigorovka of the DPR and Chervonaya Dibrova of the LPR.
During the day, up to 80 Ukrainian servicemen, three armored combat vehicles and two pickup trucks were destroyed.
- In the Zaporozhye direction, units of the Russian group of troops, with the support of artillery in the area of the settlement of Rabotino, Zaporozhye region, repelled two enemy attacks, and also suppressed the activities of a sabotage and reconnaissance group.
The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine amounted to up to 195 military personnel, two infantry fighting vehicles, three vehicles, a Polish-made Krab self-propelled artillery mount, a US-made M777 artillery system, and a British-made L119 howitzer.
- In the Kherson direction, as a result of fire damage, up to 30 Ukrainian servicemen, three vehicles, as well as an AN/TPQ - 37 counter-battery counter-battery radar were destroyed.
Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile forces and artillery of groups of troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation over the past day hit the manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 143 districts.
Fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Su-25 attack aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force near the village of Verolyubovka in the DPR.
A Ukrainian Su-25 aircraft was shot down by means of air defense in the area of the settlement Malaya Tokmachka, Zaporozhye region.
In addition, twenty-six Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed in the areas of the settlements of Upper Duvanka, Kremennaya, Privolye, Lisichansk LPR, Berestovoye, Krasnaya Gora, Volodino, Orlinskoe DPR, Lyubimovka, Rabotino and Tokmak of the Zaporozhye region.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 461 aircraft, 246 helicopters, 5,831 unmanned aerial vehicles, 431 anti-aircraft missile systems, 11,366 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,144 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 5,928 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 12,307 units of special military vehicles.
14:50 Received information: “Storm Z” stormtroopers took Pershotravneve.
14:25 Rabotino, current situation.
The last few days have not brought good news. Fighting is now going on in the northern part of the village, our orders to the east of the village have moved deeper than the defense line by about 1.5 kilometers - the fighting is going directly to Rabotino.
In the Tokmak direction, in principle, the width of the contact segment of the advanced units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to the first positions of this line of our defense has reached a size of 2.5-3 kms and continues to expand.
The situation is unpleasant.
However, it is far from catastrophic.
The successes of the Nazis, if it can be called a success, in a sense, more than two months of attacks, are purely situational.
Even in the event of mastering Rabotino, they will not enter the operational space and it is impossible to call this a breakthrough of the front.
Behind Rabotino there are a huge number of villages and strongholds. Therefore, they only dream of Tokmak. And that is in vain.
Plus, we have a sufficient number of extremely combat-ready units in the indicated direction, such as the 108th Air Assault Regiment, as well as the 56th Airborne Regiment of the Reserve; The 1441st Regiment of the territorial troops, as well as the heroic marines of the 810th Separate Naval Infantry Brigade plus the 70th, 71st and 291st Motorized Rifle Regiments of the 42nd Motorized Rifle Division.
It should also be noted that it is in this direction that at least two (it is quite possible that three) units are operating, sharpened for the use of loitering ammunition of the Lancet type, which will already fly at the enemy in this direction for a short time.
13:50 Servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to voluntarily surrender:
Soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine say that they are treated like consumables. The commanders call the mobilized "one-shots".
According to the prisoners, there are no officers on the front line. All orders are transmitted by means of communication, with which there are constant problems.
Soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine note the professionalism of the Russian servicemen and the humane attitude towards the prisoners.
13:20 Statement of officer of the press center of the group "West":
During the fighting in the Kupyansk direction, assault groups of the 6th Army captured two strongholds, three observation posts and defeated more than two infantry platoons. In addition, during the day, the enemy carried out six counterattacks by units of the 14 mechanized and 95 separate air assault brigades on our positions in the area of the settlement Ol'shana. All counterattacks were successfully repelled. The losses of the enemy amounted to a platoon of manpower.
The calculation of the Buk-M3 air defense system destroyed the Hymars rocket.
The enemy assault groups of 44 Separate Mechanized and 25 Separate Airborne Brigades carried out three attacks on the positions of our troops in the area of the settlement. Berestovoye. The artillery of the grouping inflicted a fire defeat, the losses of the enemy amounted to a platoon of manpower.
The reconnaissance and strike squads with the Lancet loitering ammunition destroyed two artillery guns of the self-propelled guns "Crab" and M 109 "Paladin" in the area of Petropavlovka and Lozovaya and two mortars in the area of Stel'mahovka and Berestova.
12:40 Zaporozhye city, occupied by APU:
Several arrivals in the area of Officer. Production facilities are located in the city, the workshops of many factories are used to shelter the personnel and equipment of the enemy, who are preparing to be sent to the Zaporozhye Front.
12:10 Avdievska direction.
Yesterday, the Russian Army conducted offensive operations on the northern flank of the Avdeevsky direction in the area of the village of Keramik.
Several Nazi strongholds were taken by storm.
11:40 Artyomovskoe direction. Southern flank.
To the north of Gorlovka and Dzerzhinsk, a fierce battle has been going on for the second day with the use of the entire spectrum of weapons.
Protracted stubborn battles are going on in the area of Dyleevka, Mayorsk, Kurdyumovka, Ozaryanovka.
There is information that the enemy in this sector of the front has gathered significant forces and is planning an attempt to break through in the direction of Gorlovka.
Ours are ready to meet the enemy
11:35 We do not abandon our own: personnel evacuation of the Ka-52 pilot:
Yesterday our Ka-52 was shot down near Rabotino. A Mi-28 helicopter flew to the crash site and evacuated the pilot, who managed to leave the Alligator.
11:00 Russian troops deflected enemy attacks near Orekhov on the Zaporozhye front:
“Our guards stood in position, firmly stood. We did not allow a single breakthrough of the enemy <…>. Up to 35 units of NATO equipment were burned: "Leopards", "Bradley", - said the deputy commander of the battalion with the call sign "Leader".
The enemy could not break through either with an armored group, or with infantry, or as part of a battalion. / corr. iz.ru Murad Magomedov/
10:35 Statement of head of the press center of the group "Center":
In the course of active defense of the occupied lines in the Svatovsky and Krasnolimansky directions, advanced units of the Center group of forces, supported by artillery fire and air strikes, thwarted and repelled six attempts to attack by assault groups of three mechanized brigades and the 68th Jaeger brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The losses of the enemy amounted to more than 40 militants, an infantry fighting vehicle, an armored vehicle were destroyed, and the Strela-10 anti-aircraft missile system was also hit by the Lancet loitering ammunition.
As part of the counterbattery fight, about 30 enemy artillery positions were opened and suppressed, and a Polish-made self-propelled artillery mount Crab was destroyed by loitering ammunition "Lancet".
Three unmanned aerial vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were shot down by means of air defense.
Bomber aircraft delivered strikes on four targets: a command and observation post, two points of temporary deployment and a field ammunition depot of Ukrainian troops in the areas of Druzhelyubovka, Nevskoye, Serebryanka.
10:05 Fire support
Kupyanskoe direction
Artillerymen of the Western Military District, supporting the offensive actions of motorized rifle and tank units, inflict massive strikes on positions, infrastructure facilities and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine -video.
09:45 Zaporozhyedirection, n.p. Rabotino - the enemy is trying to break through without the use of technology, there are fights.
09:25 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:
-- in the village of Kazach'i Lagery 14 rounds;
-- n.p. Podstepnoye 19 rounds;
-- n.p. Krynki nine rounds;
-- n.p. Dnepryans 12 rounds;
-- n.p. Solontsy eight rounds.
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the settlement of Nova Kakhovka, the settlement of Kakhovka, settlement Sagi, settlement Dnepryany, Gornostaevka settlement, firing a total of 35 rounds from cannon artillery
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being specified
08:40 Official summary Representative offices of the DPR in the JCCC from 00:00 08/17/2023 to 00:00 08/18/2023
Over the past day, the Representation reported 70 facts of firing by the AFU.
Information was received about the wounding of four civilians in the Petrovsky, Kirovsky and Kuibyshevsky districts of Donetsk, Yelenovka.
A total of 10 residential buildings were damaged in the Kuibyshevsky and Petrovsky districts of Donetsk, Zaitsevo and Yelenovka, as well as 2 civilian infrastructure facilities.
Under enemy fire were areas of eight settlements of the Republic: Svetlodarsk, Gorlovka (Central City, Nikitovsky districts), Gol'movsky, Zaitsevo, Yasinovatsky district, the capital city of Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Kievsky, Petrovsky districts), Makeevka (Chervonogvardeysky district), Yelenovka.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy fired 50 rounds from 155mm artillery, incl. with a cluster warhead.
On Gorlovsky 14 artillery attacks from artillery 155 and 152mm.
On Yasinovatsky Three artillery attacks from 155mm artillery.
On Svetlodarskoye Four artillery attacks from 155mm artillery.
Having fired 217 units of various ammunition.
In the previous day, 61 artillery attacks were recorded from the side of the VFU.
08:20 On August 18, at about 04.00 Moscow time, another terrorist attack was undertaken by the Kyiv regime attack using unmanned aerial vehicle at facilities located in Moscow and the Moscow region.
The UAV, after being exposed to air defense weapons, changed its flight path and fell on a non-residential building in the Krasnopresnenskaya Embankment area of Moscow.
There are no casualties or fires.
08:07 Frontline summary on the morning of 08/18/2023:
- In the Zaporozhye direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, after powerful artillery attack, occupied the northern part of the village of Rabotino. To the east, they were advancing along the H-08 highway south of Novopokrovka. There is an advance. Thus, the Ukrainian troops seek to expand the front of the attack on Tokmok and at the same time secure the flank in the zone of a possible breakthrough. The Armed Forces of Ukraine also continued reconnaissance in battle near Dorozhnyanka. And this is the direction to the strategic Pologi. It is obvious that the Ukrainian command decided to pin down the Russian troops on a wider sector of the front. The goal is to prevent the transfer of units to problem areas. Ukrainian positions in Plavnya, Kamensky, Luk'yanovsky, Novoandreevka, Novodanilovka, Malaya Tokmachka and Omel'nik are under artillery attack. Russian - in Zherebyanki, Kopani, Novoprokopovka and Verbovoe.
- In the Ugledarsky sector, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, with the support of artillery, attacked near Priyutnoye. No success. But similar actions on the part of Urozhaynoye led to the advance in the direction of Kermenchik. In this settlement there are key heights throughout the Ugledar direction. The RF Armed Forces attacked the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Staromayorsky, Blagodatny, Harvest, Bolshaya Novosyolka, Prechistovka, Bogoyavlenka, Ugledar and Vodyany (not to be confused with the settlement of the same name northwest of Donetsk). Ukrainian artillery worked according to the Cherished Desire, Staromlynovka, Novodonetsky, Novomayorsky and Nikolsky.
- In the Bakhmut direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, with the support of artillery, resumed assault operations near Kleshcheevka. The RF Armed Forces, in turn, counterattacked from Dubovo-Vasilyevka in the direction of Bogdanovka. Both sides are unsuccessful. Russian troops shelled the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Chasovoy Yar, Pereezdny, Rozdolovka, Vyemka and Seversk. The Ukrainians hit Russian positions in Ozaryanovka, Kurdyumovka, Andreevka, Bakhmut, Yagodnoye and Yakovlevka. (Fig. 3)