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"In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:...
A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!...
And all should cry, Beware! Beware!
His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise."
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[LB] 30 skirmishes took place at the front during the day.
by Vera Perun
In the Mariinsky direction, the Defense Forces continue to hold back the advance of Russian troops in the Maryinka and Krasnohorivka districts of the Donetsk region.
This is reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The occupiers launched missile and 31 air strikes, fired 45 rocket salvo fire systems at the positions of Ukrainian troops and populated areas.
Instead, the aviation of the Defense Forces made nine strikes on areas of concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment of the enemy. During the day, units of missile forces and artillery hit two areas of concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment of the enemy, four artillery means in firing positions, two control points and two electronic warfare stations.
As of 18:00 on August 18, the situation at the front is as follows:
on the Volyn and Poliske directions, the operational situation has not changed significantly;
on Siverskyi and Slobozhanskyi , the Russians carried out airstrikes in the Krasnaya Zora and Veterinarny districts of the Kharkiv region. The enemy carried out mortar and artillery attacks on more than 20 settlements, in particular, Yeline, Leonivka, Vilchyki, Mykolaivske of Chernihiv region; Rozhkovichi, Iskryskivshchyna, Turya, Pokrovka, Ryasne of the Sumy region and Chervona Zorya, Gatishche, Vovchanski Khutory, Budarky in the Kharkiv region;
in Kupyansk, the occupiers conducted unsuccessful offensive actions in the Sinkivka district of the Kharkiv region. Airstrikes were carried out in the Kislivka and Berestovo districts of the Kharkiv region. The settlements of Kamianka, Krasne Pershe, Masyutivka, Kislivka, Berestov of the Kharkiv region were subjected to enemy artillery and mortar attacks;
on Lymanskyi, the enemy carried out unsuccessful offensive actions in the area of Bilogorivka, Luhansk region.
He carried out airstrikes in the areas of Bilogorivka, Luhansk Region, and Spirnyi, Donetsk Region. About 10 settlements were hit by artillery fire from the enemy, in particular, Nevske, Chervonopivka of the Luhansk Region and Verkhnyokamianske, Svyat Pokrovske, Spirne, Rozdolivka of the Donetsk Region;
on Bakhmutsky, the enemy conducted unsuccessful offensive actions in the area northeast of Orikhovo-Vasylivka, Donetsk region. Conducted airstrikes in Klishchiivka and Andriivka districts of Donetsk region. More than 15 settlements were damaged by enemy artillery fire, including Minkivka, Bogdanivka, Chasiv Yar, Klishchiivka, Shcherbynivka of the Donetsk region;
in Avdiivskyi, the Russians conducted unsuccessful offensive actions in the area southeast and east of Novokalinov, Donetsk region. More than 10 settlements, including Keramik, Stepove, Avdiivka, Pervomaiske, and Netaylovye of the Donetsk region, were hit by artillery fire;
in Marinsky, the occupiers launched an airstrike in the Krasnohorivka district of the Donetsk region. The settlements of Krasnohorivka, Pobyeda, Kostyantynivka, Halytsynivka, Katerynivka of the Donetsk region were hit by artillery fire;
on Shakhtarsky, the enemy made unsuccessful attempts to restore the lost position in the Urozhany region of Donetsk region. He carried out an air strike in the Staromayorsky district. More than 10 settlements, including Vodyane, Bogoyavlenka, Zolota Niva, Blagodatne, Staromayorske, Rivnopil of the Donetsk region, were hit by artillery fire;
in Zaporizhzhia, the enemy carried out an air strike in the Robotyne region of Zaporizhzhia region. More than 15 settlements were affected by enemy artillery fire, including Novodarivka, Malynivka, Gulyaipole, Charivne, Mali Shcherbaki, Kamianske of the Zaporizhzhia region;
in the Kherson region , more than 10 settlements were damaged by enemy artillery fire, among them Zolota Balka, Respublikanets, Odradokamyanka, Veletenske, Novodmytrivka, Sofiivka of the Kherson region, and Luparevo of the Mykolaiv region.
The Defense Forces of Ukraine continue to conduct an offensive operation in the Melitopol and Berdyansk directions, are entrenched at the achieved boundaries, and carry out counter-battery countermeasures.
We will remind you that the Russians have now attacked the residential quarters of Virivka, Berislav District, Kherson Oblast. A 17-year-old girl was injured. The occupiers also dropped explosives from a drone on Beryslav. As a result, two people were injured.
On the night of August 18, the enemy shelled the village of Komyshuvakha, Zaporizhzhia region . As a result of the attack, an educational institution was destroyed, houses were damaged.
#1
From the independent sources I've seen, this was a close run thing. The Russians were close to breaking through before the Ukrainians brought in reinforcements and plugged the breach. 100K men in assaults units does play havoc on positions.
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[Korrespondent] Enemy losses per day amounted to 234 people, 20 units of military equipment and three ammunition warehouses.
On the Tavriysk direction, the loss of the enemy during the past day amounted to 234 people - 64 killed, 168 wounded and seven prisoners. General Oleksandr Tarnavskyi, the commander of the operational-strategic grouping of Tavria troops , announced this on Friday, August 18 .
"Taurian direction. Active work of the Defense Forces continues. Artillery units of our army performed 1,402 fire missions during the day," he wrote.
Tarnavsky noted that over the last day, the enemy lost 234 people killed, wounded and captured (64 killed, 168 wounded, seven captured).
In addition, Ukrainian troops destroyed 20 units of enemy military equipment. In particular, one Ka-52 attack helicopter, one tank, six artillery systems and mortars, one unmanned aerial vehicle, six vehicles and five special vehicles.
Three ammunition depots were also liquidated.
We will remind, according to the General Staff, in the past day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine eliminated 460 invaders , and since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, more than 256,000 Russian soldiers have died.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title
22:44 Ukrainian pilots will begin training on F-16 fighters in Denmark at the end of August, the Danish Ministry of Defense reported. A coalition of 11 countries will take part in the training.
22:03 Zelensky said in an evening video message that next week is "a time of important events for Ukraine." "We are preparing powerful things for Ukraine, strengthening our state, our soldiers. Today and in general this week, this is the main task. Weapons for our soldiers. New opportunities for our defense. New support packages from our partners. We are doing everything to Independence Day of our state, it could be said that Ukraine has taken another step towards the circle of the strongest states in the world," the President stressed.
He announced news for Ukraine, which are being prepared with neighbors and partners in the EU, "and also in those regions of Europe where our cooperation with states has not yet been enough."
21:25 The Russians fired at the housing sector of Kherson - one person was killed, two were injured, said the head of the OVA Alexander Prokudin.
20:12 Washington has finally approved the sending of fighter jets from Denmark and the Netherlands to Ukraine. About when to wait for the first F-16 - in the material US landmark decision .
19:51 The Russians fired artillery at the point of invincibility in Chasovoy Yar, Donetsk region, four people were injured, the regional prosecutor's office said. The park and apartment buildings were damaged.
19:08 Turkey, Russia and Qatar are preparing a new agreement instead of a grain deal, writes Bild, citing official correspondence between the Foreign Ministry and the embassies of the Russian Federation and Turkey. It follows from it that Moscow warned Ankara in advance about withdrawing from the grain deal. Now Russia, Turkey and Qatar are working on a new tripartite agreement, according to which Russian grain will be supplied to poor countries, mainly Africa. Türkiye will act as an organizer, Qatar - as a sponsor of supplies.
At the same time, in correspondence, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan asks Russia to resume the previous grain deal so that grain is also supplied from Ukraine. Ankara proposes to act under the auspices of the UN. According to Bild, a new deal could be concluded as early as this weekend in Budapest. For this, the head of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov has already flown there, Erdogan will also arrive there.
18:53 Today, the sixth meeting with representatives of foreign diplomatic institutions accredited in Ukraine took place, at which environmental security was discussed - one of the points of the Formula of Peace, the Office of the President reported. The number of participants has increased: today there were already 63 diplomatic missions. In particular, for the first time representatives of the diplomatic institutions of Albania, Cyprus, Malaysia, Moldova, Malta, Slovenia, Thailand and Vietnam joined the discussion of the points of the Peace Formula.
18:42 An explosion occurred in Energodar at a meeting of the leaders of the occupying "police", the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense reported. As a result of the explosion, the head of the city department, Colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Pavel Chesanov, his deputy for operational work, the head of the investigation department, the head of the duty unit and the heads of a number of departments received numerous injuries. Immediately after the explosion, they were taken to a local hospital, and after an operational examination, three ambulances were urgently called from Melitopol. Already from there, it is planned to evacuate by military helicopters to the territory of the Russian Federation.
The building in which the explosion occurred, in addition to the location of the "police" department, was used as a quarters for the personnel of the occupiers. As a result of the explosion, the house received significant damage, the fire spread to the 3rd-5th floors. Currently, the area of the incident is blocked, the ability to move around the city for civilians is significantly limited. The city is completely disconnected from the Internet.
18:19 "Governor" of the occupied Kherson region Volodymyr Saldo signed a "decree" banning the use of any drones until further notice.
17:47 The United States and its allies are trying to strengthen enforcement of sanctions against Russia in Turkey, which expanded trade with Russia during the war in Ukraine, writes The Wall Street Journal. According to an unnamed Western diplomat, the US has "an ongoing dialogue with the Turkish government on these issues." He added that the West hopes to "avoid a scenario in which this or that Turkish company will fall under sanctions."
17:31 Every day, 3-5 Russian servicemen surrender under the program I want to live , said project speaker Vitaly Matvienko. According to him, most of those who visited the project site are residents of Moscow, St. Petersburg, the Krasnodar Territory and the Nizhny Novgorod Region. In total, from 70 to 100 requests are received per day - despite the fact that Roskomnadzor is constantly trying to block these resources.
According to Andrey Yusov, a spokesman for the Main Intelligence Directorate, Andrei Yusov, every fifth Russian prisoner of war surrendered voluntarily, and among them are not only ordinary soldiers, but also officers.
16:55 The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense appealed to residents of the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine on the eve of the so-called "elections" organized by Russia, with a request to provide information about them. In particular, Ukrainians are asked to send information about collaborators among local residents and their curators from the Russian Federation, the so-called "deputies" and representatives of the occupation administrations, evidence of fraud and illegitimacy of holding fake elections.
16:27 Ukraine will receive F-16 fighters after pilot training is completed , Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan said. In turn, The Netherlands Times newspaper writes, citing its sources, that the training will last at least until the summer of 2024, so that the fighters will be able to be sent to Ukraine no earlier than a year later.
16:22 The Russians attacked Beryslav from a drone in the Kherson region, two people were injured, the OVA reported.
15:45 The GRU of the Russian Federation recruited Ukrainian refugees in Poland through Telegram to carry out sabotage, murder and arson, writes The Washington Post. According to the newspaper, for several weeks "recruits" from Ukraine scouted Polish seaports, installed cameras on railways and hid tracking devices in military cargo. The purpose of the sabotage was to disrupt the channels for the supply of weapons through Poland, through which more than 80% of military equipment for the Armed Forces of Ukraine passes.
The publication notes that the performers were guided not so much by ideology as by money, although the curators paid them only a few dollars for graffiti to several hundred dollars for bombings, murders, etc.
15:04 Ukraine has committed strategic reserves on the Zaporizhia Front, according to BILD military observer Yulian Repke, based on a video of fighters from the Ukrainian 82nd Air Assault Brigade near Rabotino in the Orekhovsky direction. The brigade consists of 2,000 fighters armed with British Challenger 2 tanks, German Marder infantry fighting vehicles and American Stryker armored personnel carriers. The fighters underwent two months of training in the UK.
14:37 The Russians are building a defense line near Mariupol in anticipation of the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Petr Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, told Radio Liberty. According to him, they started building the lines two days before the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine officially announced the de-occupation of Urozhayne. In particular, they are digging trenches and dugouts, equipping full-fledged defense lines in the Nikolsky area, 20 km from Mariupol. Previously, such defensive structures were located in the area of the administrative border of the Donetsk and Zaporozhye regions.
13:59 The Office of the President showed what the former Kakhovka reservoir looks like now:
13:45 Russia monthly sends 20,000 recruits to the war in Ukraine, Andrey Yusov, spokesman for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, said. According to him, the mobilization is forcible, mainly for those who have recently received a Russian passport.
12:53 Zelensky said that during the daily morning "synchronization of hours" they discussed, in particular, agreements with partners: "Heavy equipment, artillery, air defense systems are coming in. We continue to work on the next packages. News will be coming soon." They also discussed the situation at the front and the results of the use of drones.
"The course of the all-encompassing inspection of the VLK. As well as the work of the SBU on the "military commissars" and collaborators. Good results. Separately, closed reports by the SBU and the Main Intelligence Directorate on their special tasks. Work continues," the president added.
12:31 In Turkey, the laying ceremony of the second ship of the ADA type for the needs of the Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine took place.
12:06 At night, the enemy hit a residential area in Kamyshevakh, Zaporozhye region, with two guided bombs. A local educational institution was destroyed, the blast wave and debris damaged nearby residential buildings. People were not injured, said the head of the OVA, Yuri Malashko.
11:35 About 480 people, including almost 130 children, were evacuated from the Kupyansky district of the Kharkiv region, head of the regional military administration Andrei Kanashevich said. He clarified that the number of evacuees could be higher, as some local residents are leaving on their own. At the same time, six people remain in the village of Sinkovka, which is located practically on the front line and is constantly subjected to Russian attacks, who categorically refuse to evacuate.
10:58 Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lekke Rasmussen confirmed that the United States approved the delivery of F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine. At the same time, according to him, a final decision has not yet been made on when the planes will arrive in Ukraine.
10:32 American intelligence believes that Ukraine this year will not be able to reach Melitopol and, thus, realize the main goal of the offensive - to break the land corridor of Russia with Crimea, writes The Washington Post, citing sources. The newspaper notes that the Ukrainian command decided to reduce losses on the battlefield and switch to the tactics of moving forward in small units, despite the expectations of the Western allies. This led to the fact that in the summer Kyiv achieved only gradual successes in different sectors of the front.
10:01 Russians have begun to take to the skies more often the MiG-31K fighter, because of which Ukraine is declaring an air raid alert, Air Force speaker Yuri Ignat said. According to him, they make training flights. Ignat added that if the aircraft is fully refueled, it can stay in the sky for an hour and a half, and the enemy knows that all this time there has been alarm in Ukraine and the work of institutions and enterprises is limited.
"Aviation, in particular the flight crew, requires maintaining constant skills. This is takeoff and landing, reaching the missile launch line, and so on. Such are the tactics that are applied to this type of aircraft," the speaker explained. At the same time, he added that when the MiG-31K fighter takes off, the air forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine must react, because even in the case of training, this does not guarantee that they will not fire Kh-47 Kinzhal missiles.
09:34 Deputy Permanent Representative of China to the UN Geng Shuang said at a meeting of the Security Council that the supply of weapons to Kiev is prolonging the war, and called for peace talks: "China has repeatedly stated its position, expressing concern and concern about the serious consequences of the continuous supply of weapons on the field combat. The side effect of this continues to intensify, as a result, the hope for a ceasefire becomes even more elusive."
09:06 In the Kharkiv region over the past day, as a result of the shelling of Kupyansk, one person was killed, one was wounded. In the Donetsk region, one person died (in Bogdanovka), two more were injured, according to the IVA.
09:03 Russia is shelling Ukraine with rockets that were fired this year, writes Bloomberg. So, recently, an unexploded rocket of the Tornado C complex with a production date of May 19 was discovered in the Sumy region. Experts who studied the rocket concluded that some of the parts were soldered by hand, and the components turned out to be Russian and American-made.
08:52 Ukrainian troops are attacking to the south of Bakhmut, they are fixed on the achieved lines, Andriy Kovalev, the speaker of the General Staff, said.
08:39 The first ship that used the Ukrainian corridor arrived in Istanbul, Reuters reports. The container ship Joseph Schulte has been in the port of Odessa since February 23, 2022.
08:17 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of August 18:
personnel - about 256,510 (+460) people liquidated,
tanks - 4332 (+3),
armored combat vehicles - 8410 (+12),
artillery systems - 5193 (+24),
MLRS - 714 (+0),
air defense systems - 486 (+0),
aircraft - 315 (+0),
helicopters - 316 (+2),
UAV operational-tactical level - 4276 (+4),
cruise missiles - 1406 (+0),
ships/boats - 18 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 7658 (+17),
special equipment - 783 (+10).
07:30 Over the past day, 33 combat clashes occurred at the front, the General Staff said in the morning summary . In particular, in the Kupyansky direction, the enemy conducted unsuccessful offensive operations in the Sinkovka area of the Kharkiv region, in the Limansky direction - in the Belogorovka region of the Luhansk region, in the Bakhmutsky direction - in the areas of Bogdanovka and Belaya Gora of the Donetsk region, in Avdievsky - in the area of the village Keramik of the Donetsk region.
In the Maryinsky direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to restrain the offensive of Russian troops in the areas of Maryinka and Krasnogorovka in the Donetsk region. In the Shakhtyorsk direction, the enemy made unsuccessful attempts to restore the lost position in the area of Urozhaynoye in the Donetsk region and Novodarovka in the Zaporozhye region. The defense forces continue the offensive operation in the Melitopol and Berdyansk directions.
05:02 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced an attempt by Ukraine to attack Moscow and the Moscow region with a drone. The downed UAV fell on a non-residential building in the Krasnopresnenskaya Embankment area of Moscow, there were no casualties or fires. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that the debris fell in the Expocentre area in the Moscow City area, "no significant damage was caused to the building," the facade was damaged.
00:39 The United States approved the sending of F-16 fighter jets from Denmark and the Netherlands to Ukraine immediately after the completion of pilot training, Reuters reports, citing an unnamed Washington official.
00:16 Victory in Ukraine will be the complete withdrawal of Russian troops from the country, said Deputy Speaker of the US State Department Vedant Patel.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Kirill Strelnikov
[RIA] The Kiev fans of Hitler, who until the last hoped to turn the tide of the war with numerous "wunderwaffles", nevertheless decided to lay out the trump card that they had been holding in the sleeve of the vyshyvanka for a long time: according to confirmed sources, after the crews return from training in Zaporozhye, the next "best in the world" are put into battle British Challenger 2 tanks.
The Challengers are going to turn the Russians into dust within the framework of the last large grouping of the Ukrainian Armed Forces "Marun", namely, as part of the 82nd Air Assault Brigade, which Kiev stoically kept in reserve for a victorious march through the broken defenses of the Russian Armed Forces.
But it didn’t happen anywhere to break through the defense - and instead of the march, minced meat turned out. On the fields of the remnants of Ukraine, many dozens of previous Western miracle tanks (including under fifty invincible "Leopards") are quietly rusting, and a cart of watermelons is still there.
Nevertheless, as both early and recent history shows, Westerners (and those from the European garden who speak Move) have an amazing ability to self-excite from the next "weapon of victory" against the backdrop of obvious failures.
The last aphrodisiac was the English Challenger 2 main battle tank. Well, how can you not spread your plucked wings at the sight of such beauty? This is the heaviest Western tank (75 tons), it has magical Dorchester 2 armor, a cruising range of 340 miles on the road and 160 off it, can crush Russians at a speed of 59 kilometers per hour, has a built-in system of protection against nuclear, chemical and biological weapons , can fire projectiles with a depleted uranium core, and in general, according to Western experts, overshadows all competitors with "accuracy and lethality", as well as "the most modern weapons system in the world." No more, no less.
Enthusiastic publications in the Western media underline that the Challenger tanks "never suffered losses at the hands of the enemy," and the meeting with Soviet-made tanks in Iraq was not a battle, but a "massacre." In the opinion of experts now confident in the success, "there is no reason to expect (in Ukraine) a different outcome of the meeting with Russian tanks."
Ukrainian Defense Minister Reznikov called the Challenger "fantastic tanks" and, having taken courage, said that now the vaunted defense of the Russian Armed Forces with the so-called concrete dragon's teeth will shamefully fall and that "if a dragon has teeth, then there is a dragon dentist on them."
We are ready to agree that in the world of pink ponies, rainbows and endless wins, Challenger tanks fit perfectly, but in the harsh reality, things are infinitely more likely to go very differently.
Due to their weight and technical features, these miracle tanks simply cannot move anywhere except the fields of Zaporozhye. To deliver such a treasure to the place of "slaughter", special tank carriers, bridge layers, engineering services, and often new roads are needed. Having trained on the "Leopards", our warriors will be happy to burn the "Challengers" floundering in the mud.
The vaunted uniqueness of British tanks also leads to the fact that under them you need to build your own system of technical support, repair, logistics and evacuation. Shells from tanks at the disposal of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are not suitable for them. If the spare parts do not keep up because of the "nasty Russians", for repairs it will be necessary to dismantle the neighboring Challengers for spare parts. A sharp increase in the number of bouquets of geraniums at the warehouse and transport hubs of Ukraine also guarantees that the Challengers will not see the royal car service.
In addition, the Lancets, Malkas and mines do not care how much and what is stuffed and hung in grams on the Challenger: they will burn like cute ones - with or without uranium cores.
And most importantly, as many as 14 miracle tanks arrived to defeat the Russians, which is equal to a maximum of a couple of days of quiet work for our guys, who have been waiting for both Challengers and Abrams for a long time.
Kyiv needs a bloody nosebleed before the onset of the autumn thaw, and the Ukrainian cargo cult in relation to the "Challengers" is designed to invigorate the deflated Ukrainian troops. According to Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu , Ukraine's military resource is almost exhausted, which is why the Armed Forces of Ukraine are forced to throw into battle their last reserves, which were planned to be used to "liberate Crimea", and pretend that now the victory will definitely happen.
According to Western military observers, "the Kremlin is concerned about the arrival of British tanks in Ukraine."
One can agree with this statement, but with one amendment: our military leadership is rather worried that there are too few Challengers and not everyone will be able to practice on them.
And as for brave dentists, we will be happy to demonstrate again what remains of the best tanks in the world after Russian caries.
Kindly note that several entries in this article may have been removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 21:11 In an hour and a half, Ukrainian troops fired 12 rounds of 155mm caliber in Donetsk and three rounds of 152mm caliber in Gorlivka, the representation DPR at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC).
“Fire was recorded from the side of the VFU (armed formations of Ukraine - ed.) in the direction:
19:05 - the settlement of Dzerzhinsk - the settlement of Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district): three rounds with a caliber of 152 mm were fired;
19:15 - Maksimilyanovka settlement - Donetsk city (Petrovsky district): 3 shells with a caliber of 155 millimeters were fired; 19:20 - the settlement of Novoselovka Pervaya - the city of Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district):three rounds with a caliber of 155mm were fired;
19:20 - the settlement of Galitsinovka - the city of Donetsk (Kirov district): three rounds of 155mm caliber were fired;
20:00 - Galitsinovka settlement - Donetsk city (Kirovskiy district): three rounds of 155mm caliber were fired," the representative office said in a statement.
20:40 The air defense system worked in the Belgorod region, an aircraft-type UAV was shot down, preliminary, there is no information about the victims and destruction, said governor Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkov.
“Our air defense system worked over the Belgorod region - an aircraft-type UAV was shot down. Operational services are clarifying information about the consequences on the ground,” he wrote in his Telegram channel.
He clarified that, according to preliminary data, there is no information about the victims and destruction.
19:47 Artillery of the RF Armed Forces destroys positions of Ukrainian militants in the Lisichansk direction
18:50 Cluster munition strikes are inflicted on Donetsk daily, contrary to the Pentagon's statements about the use of cluster shells by the Ukrainian Armed Forces allegedly "exclusively" against military targets, Jan Gagin, adviser to the acting head of the DPR, told RIA Novosti.
“Strikes with the help of cluster munitions are inflicted on the Donetsk agglomeration at least regularly, every day. These shells explode regularly just above the capital of the republic. The Kievsky district, Voroshilovsky, practically all the areas that artillery can reach them suffer a lot ...
All these facts were recorded by the Investigative Committee, and not just described, but described with photo tables, the wounded. So the Pentagon is wrong, and I think that someday this will be heard at a military tribunal, ”said Gagin.
17:48 Acting Governor of the Kherson region Sal'do signed the law "On the ban on the use of unmanned aerial vehicles" in order to strengthen the protection of public order and ensure public safety
17:48 The first militants from the 82nd Airborne Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine taken prisoner in Zaporozhye region
16:06 At least seven civilians were killed, 33 were injured, including two children, from August 11 to 17 in the DPR due to the actions of Ukrainian troops, the office of the Ombudsman of the Republic Daria Morozova reports onsite.
In a post published in Telegram channeldepartments, an infographic is provided, according to which seven people died in the republic from August 11 to 17. The number of victims during this period was 33, including two children.
It is also noted that during the entire period of armed aggression by Ukraine in the DPR, 9,014 people were killed, including 229 children. The number of injured civilians due to the actions of Ukrainian troops for the entire time amounted to 12,589, including 803 children.
16:05 A civilian was injured as a result of the shelling of Makiivka by Ukrainian troops, said the mayor of the city Vladislav Klyucharov inTelegram channel.
“Chervonogvardeisky district of the city of Makeyevka today came under fire from the Ukrainian Armed Forces (Armed Forces of Ukraine - ed.) ... In the village of Lesnoy, in the courtyard of a private house, a man born in 1952 was injured. He was taken to a medical institution in a serious condition, ”the mayor writes.
15:00 New briefing by the Russian Defense Ministry:
🔹The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost up to 220 servicemen killed and wounded in the Donetsk direction.
🔹The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation repulsed three attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donetsk direction in a day.
🔹Air defense systems of the Russian Federation over the past day shot down a Ukrainian Su-25 aircraft.
🔹The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kupyansk direction per day amounted to 75 servicemen.
🔹The Russian Armed Forces repelled an attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the settlement of Nikol'skoye in the DPR.
🔹The RF Armed Forces successfully repulsed seven enemy attacks and counterattacks in the Kupyanka direction, and an ammunition depot in the Kamenki area was destroyed.
🔹The RF Armed Forces repulsed two attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnolimansky direction, and destroyed up to 80 enemy servicemen.
🔹The RF Armed Forces destroyed a counterbattery station of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and up to 30 enemy fighters in the Kherson direction.
🔹The Russian Armed Forces destroyed three points of ammunition supply for units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the DPR.
🔹The RF Armed Forces destroyed up to 210 Ukrainian servicemen in the South-Donetsk direction in a day.
🔹The air defense of the Russian Federation over the past day shot down 26 drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
🔹The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the day amounted to 195 servicemen in the Zaporozhye direction.
🔹The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation repelled two attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the settlement of Rabotino and stopped the activities of the Ukrainian DRG in the Zaporozhye direction.
🔹Russian aviation shot down a Ukrainian Su-25 attack aircraft near Verolyubovka in the DPR.
13:50 Ukrainian troops at 13.35 fired three cluster shells 155mm from “NATO” artillery in the Kievsky district of Donetsk – DPR representative office in the JCCC
12:56 Explosions thundered in the Kyiv-controlled city of Zaporozhye amid an air raid. This was reported by the Ukrainian TV channel 5.ua.
12:55 Air raid alert announced in Sumy, Poltava, Khar'kov and Dnepropetrovsk regions of Ukraine, data show online maps Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation.
11:52 Calculations "Tornado-G" support offensive of Russian troops in the Kupyansk direction
11:51 Ukrainian troops fired at the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, Gorlovka, as well as the villages of Gol'movsky and Zaytsevo, firing a total of 24 rounds of 155mm and 152mm calibers, reported in Telegram channel representation of the DPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC).
“Fire was recorded from the armed formations of Ukraine in the direction:
11.00 (coincides with Moscow time - ed.) - the settlement of Dzerzhinsk - the settlement of Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district): five rounds with a caliber of 152mm were fired ...
10.40 - the settlement of Dzerzhinsk - the settlement of Gorlovka ( Nikitovsky district): four rounds with a caliber of 152mm were fired,” the representative office said in a statement.
10:39 Russian army mastered two strongholds and three observation posts in the Kupyansk direction
10:39 The village of Petrov Guta, Bryansk region, came under fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as a result of which three houses were damaged. Governor Alexander Bogomaz announced this on his Telegram channel.
There were no casualties. As a result of the shelling, there are partial destructions of three residential buildings.
10:38 Over the past day, the Ukrainian military fired on seven border regions of the Belgorod region, almost 100 rounds were fired, two Ukrainian drones were also shot down, the governor of the region Vyacheslav Gladkov said in Telegram channel.
09:37 Soldiers of the Russian Army lay fire on the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the retreat -video.
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[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. 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.
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)
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[REGNUM] Since the time of Catherine II, little has changed at the Derkul stud farm in the LPR as a whole. The buildings, built in the form of the Empress's monogram, stand, worthy horses are bred, and nature is wonderfully beautiful: fields, copses, steppe. This is Slobozhanshchina, the edge of the Wild Steppe, for the defense against which military settlements and a defensive line were once created.
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[REGNUM] Poland has begun to actively draw Latvia into its orbit. The pretext for this was "border problems" with Belarus and, in the background, with Russia.
Thus, the President of Latvia, Edgar Rinkevich, convened on Thursday, August 17, a meeting of the Republican National Security Council, at which an assessment was made of the threats " in the context of a hybrid war from Belarus and Russia."
The order of the Latvian president followed after he paid a visit to Warsaw a day earlier, where he met with Polish President Andrzej Duda . During a joint press conference with his Polish colleague, Rinkevich said that “ the Wagner group has appeared in Belarus and therefore “ we must prepare for provocations.”
However, Riga connected the current border problems on the Latvian-Belarusian border not so much with PMCs, but with “illegal migration”. The command of the Border Service recently recalled employees from vacations in order to more effectively prevent the penetration of migrants. At the same time, the President of Latvia criticized the judiciary and the prosecutor's office of the republic, as the latter show "liberalism" in relation to those who " help organize the transfer of illegal migrants and promote the regime of Alexander Lukashenko."
Interestingly, Poland and Lithuania, neighboring Belarus, do not experience problems with an increased influx of migrants today. But for some reason, at the same time, Warsaw, Vilnius and Riga “for three” are discussing the prospects for a complete blockade from the western direction of Belarus, covering up these conversations with references to some “provocations”.
In early August, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda , during a meeting with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in Suwalki, said that Warsaw, Vilnius and Riga should be prepared for a possible border closure with Belarus if "the security situation starts to deteriorate due to the actions of mercenaries".
On August 28, Warsaw will host a meeting of the Ministers of the Interior of Poland, Lithuania and Latvia, at which the issue of the blockade of Belarus will be discussed. “A week ago I had a conversation with the Minister of the Interior of Poland ,” said the Minister of the Interior of Lithuania, Agne Bilotaite. “We agreed that we are now agreeing on technical actions and an algorithm, how it would look if such a regional decision were made, if the Baltic countries and Poland did it at the same time.”
But who is the initiator and lobbyist of such an idea? Doesn't look like Vilnius. Lithuanian politicians are ambivalent about the tightening of the border regime. Many local residents still rode bicycles or even on foot for years to neighboring Belarus for cheap food, cigarettes, alcohol and medicines.
Fearing the consequences for the republic and the Minister of Economy and Innovation of Lithuania Aušrine Armonaitė. After some deputies of the Lithuanian Seimas started talking about introducing new restrictions on entry into the country for citizens of Belarus, the minister opposed such measures, as this would cause an outflow of Belarusian IT specialists, who currently live in Lithuania about 5.2 thousand people, and they are considered to have " fled the repressions of the Minsk regime".
It seems that Warsaw and Riga are behind the concept of blocking Belarus. According to Duda, during his talks with Rinkevich, the most important issue " was security in terms of the war Russia is waging against Ukraine, Russian aggression against Ukraine, the hybrid threat from Belarus ."
“ Here we are talking about attacks on our borders, both Poland and Latvia have such a problem that the border is being subjected to a hybrid attack by the Belarusian authorities ,” the Polish president said. But if Warsaw has been playing the topic of “migration threats” from Minsk for several days, then Riga has not been noted for this until now. Therefore, one got the impression that embedding Latvia on a par with Poland served some other purpose.
In this regard, Rinkevich's commentary on the results of negotiations with Duda looks intriguing. The Latvian President explained that Riga and Warsaw are close partners, leading an active political dialogue and coordination on regional issues, the European Union and NATO.
Rinkevich stressed that Poland plays a strategic role in strengthening regional security, which is especially important in the current geopolitical context. Riga is grateful to Warsaw for participating in the Canada-led NATO Enhanced Presence Battlegroup in Latvia and in the Baltic air patrol mission.
Judgments of this kind play into the hands of Poland's attempts to present itself as a guarantor and exporter of regional security. A number of Warsaw experts and politicians have already thrown into the information space the theses that the accelerated rearmament of the Polish army and the planned increase in its strength should lead to the fact that Poland will be able to cover with its “military umbrella” those countries that it considers to be part of the “Three Seas” initiative.
The fact that Rinkevich went to Poland a few weeks after taking office, having made “mandatory” visits to Lithuania and Estonia, indicates that Warsaw and Riga are preparing some new geopolitical initiatives. And in the case of the Polish-Latvian arc, two directions of potential expansion are visible - in addition to Belarus, the Kaliningrad region can also become a target. Warsaw and Riga, having won Vilnius over to their side in blocking Belarus, could try to create problems for the Russian exclave on land.
Judging by the statements of the Latvian President, the game is supposed to be a long one. As Rinkiewicz said in an interview with the Rzeczpospolita newspaper, “ regardless of the outcome of this war (special military operation in Ukraine. - Ed.), we will have to live with Russia, which will be a serious threat to our independence and security, so I have no good news for both scenarios, Russian victories and defeats .” This attitude presupposes an active offensive policy on the part of Warsaw and Riga.
[Regnum] Russia, Turkey and Qatar may soon conclude a new grain deal, negotiations are scheduled to be held August 19-20 in the Hungarian capital Budapest, Bild reports on August 18, citing informed sources.
It is assumed that grain from Russia, and possibly also from Ukraine, will go to poor countries, mainly African. Türkiye should act as the organizer of supplies, Qatar - as a sponsor.
According to Bild, Russia at the meeting in Budapest will be represented by the head of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov , and Turkey by the country's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan .
As IA Regnum reported earlier, on August 18, Turkish media reported that Ankara was discussing three possible scenarios for the grain deal. Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan plans to discuss this issue with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba , and the issue of a grain deal can be discussed at a likely meeting between Russian and Turkish Presidents Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The grain deal on the export of grain from Ukrainian ports has been in effect since July 22, 2022. On July 4, 2023, the Russian Foreign Ministry stated that there were no grounds for extending the deal, since it had turned into a purely commercial export of food from Ukraine to “well-fed” countries, and the ports controlled by Kiev and the corridor opened by Russia were used by Ukraine to carry out terrorist attacks. On July 17, Russia announced the suspension of the grain deal, noting that none of the promises made to Russia when concluding this agreement was ever fulfilled.
China may ask Russia not to interfere with its purchase of grain in Ukraine, even in the context of a non-working grain deal, says Aleksey Zubets, director of the Institute for Socio-Economic Research of the Financial University under the government . He stated this on August 18 to a correspondent of IA Regnum.
Earlier it became known that the Joseph Schulte container ship with 30,000 tons of cargo on board left the port of Odessa under the flag of Hong Kong. The ship reached the Bosphorus and stopped at the port of Istanbul. This is the first ship to leave the Ukrainian port after Russia refused to continue participating in the grain deal.
“As far as I know, this is a Chinese ship, and it comes under an agreement with China. The Chinese agreed with the Russian authorities on the passage of this ship, and he was allowed to pass. If desired, Russia can block any shipments at any time. Until now, China has been the main buyer of Ukrainian grain. He got the most from the grain deal,” Zubets said.
He stressed that China, along with the United States, is the world's largest buyer of food. Therefore, as Zubets believes, it is quite possible that the Chinese may ask the Russian government not to interfere with their purchases in Ukraine. And Moscow, according to the economist, should respect the request of the Chinese comrades, since without China, Russia would not be able to resist the sanctions.
“If Russia did not want this ship to leave Ukraine and reach the Turkish straits, then it would not have left and would not have reached,” Zubets stated.
As for the future of the grain deal, the economist believes that the problem is that the main counterparty that does not want to negotiate with Russia is the United States. And they do not want to come to terms not on food supplies themselves - the same US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has repeatedly said that the United States is doing everything to facilitate the export of Russian food.
“However, Russia needs more than freedom to export food. She wants sanctions lifted. But when it comes to this point, the Americans pretend that they do not understand what it is about and refuse to go forward, ” Zubets said.
In his opinion, Ukraine will sell its grain on the world market one way or another. The question is how much. If by sea, then this is the cheapest and most effective way of export. But if the sea is closed, it means that Kyiv will sell by land - two to three times less. In any case, it will be tens of millions of tons.
However, the most interesting thing is that Ukrainian grain is actually American. Zubets urged not to forget that the lands in Ukraine belong to the largest international agricultural companies. Of the ten largest Ukrainian agricultural exporters, two or three are national, and the rest are international.
“Therefore, when Blinken twitches and offers to organize food sales, he primarily cares not about Ukraine, but about the interests of American companies,” the economist summed up.
Earlier , IA Regnum reported that a dry cargo ship flying the flag of Hong Kong was in the port before the start of Russia's special military operation. Its further route has not yet been specified.
Prior to this, the Turkish authorities announced security guarantees for ships with grain, heading from the ports of Ukraine, during the passage of the straits.
In turn, on August 10, Ukraine announced temporary corridors in the Black Sea for merchant ships. We are talking about those going to or from the ports of Chernomorsk, Odessa and Yuzhny. The coordinates of the routes are not named, but it is alleged that they had previously been proposed in an appeal to the International Maritime Organization, whose council allegedly recognized the right of the Ukrainian side to free commercial navigation.
On July 17, 2023, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov announced the suspension of the grain deal . He justified the decision of the Russian authorities by the fact that none of the promises that Moscow received when concluding this agreement was ever fulfilled.
The Black Sea deal between Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and the UN on the export of grain from Ukrainian ports has been operating since July 22, 2022. However, on July 4, 2023, the Russian Foreign Ministry stated that there were no grounds for its further extension, because it had turned into a purely commercial export of food from Ukraine to “well-fed” countries.
As part of a non-working grain deal, establishing a full-fledged grain export from Ukraine is quite problematic, says Ekaterina Novikova , associate professor of the Department of Economic Theory of the Russian University of Economics. G. V. Plekhanov. She stated this on August 18 to a correspondent of IA Regnum.
Economists: Kyiv will not be able to export grain across the Black Sea
Earlier it turned out that the container ship Joseph Schulte with 30 thousand tons of cargo on board left the port of Odessa under the flag of Hong Kong. The ship reached the Bosphorus and landed in the port of Istanbul. This is the first ship to leave the Ukrainian port after Moscow's decision to terminate participation in the grain deal.
As Novikova noted, firstly, the security of Ukrainian ports in the conditions of hostilities remains in question, and insurance companies responsible for the safety of cargo will not want to incur obviously possible losses on the delivery of products to the customer.
Thus, Russia's participation in the grain deal is necessary, but the question arises of securing agreements that have not been observed over the entire past period of the deal.
The economist stressed that if Ukraine again manages to export its grain to the world market, then grain prices will go down, but not much.
In turn, Anastasia Prikladova, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business and Customs of the Russian University of Economics. G. V. Plekhanova noted that the news that a merchant ship had reached the Bosporus from the port of Odessa was prematurely associated with grain supplies.
“Firstly, this vessel is a container ship, which is designed for other types of cargo. Secondly, this ship has not been out to sea for more than a year and a half. It’s not a fact that there is a load on it at all, ” Prikladova said.
She recalled that after refusing to extend the grain deal, the Russian side announced the possibility of its renewal subject to the fulfillment of Russia's conditions, which are enshrined in the second part of the agreement. This is a basic scenario in which Western countries should play their part, but not Turkey.
“Will Erdogan be able to influence the renewal of the deal? Maybe yes. Through a chain of conditions and concessions, which together will bring the Russian Federation a similar benefit when compared with the points of the grain deal (lifting restrictions on the export of fertilizers and wheat, connecting the Russian Agricultural Bank to SWIFT, etc.). The question is rather different. Which countries are interested in resuming the grain deal?” the economist asked.
According to her, after speculative operations on the commodity exchange, the situation with world prices for wheat has stabilized. Competition in the European market has decreased, which is favorable for local farmers. For Russia, without the fulfillment of its conditions by Western countries, the grain deal is not interesting. Therefore, it is unlikely that it will be renewed.
“Will Ukraine be able to increase wheat exports outside the grain deal? On the Black Sea route - hardly. The main reason is the destruction of the port infrastructure. Therefore, commodity flows will be redirected mainly to land routes, but they will not be able to provide the same volume of traffic, ” the economist summed up.
Earlier , IA Regnum reported that a dry cargo ship flying the flag of Hong Kong was in the port before the start of the special military operation of the Russian Federation. Nothing is known about his future itinerary . The Turkish authorities announced security guarantees for ships with grain coming from Ukrainian ports during the passage of the straits.
Economist Aleksey Zubets said that China could ask the Russian Federation to allow it to buy grain in Ukraine even under the conditions of a non-working grain deal, especially since it was thanks to China that Moscow was able to cope with the sanctions pressure.
The fact that the grain deal ceases to operate on July 17, 2023, said the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov . Explaining the reasons for this turn of events, he recalled that none of the promises that Moscow received when concluding this agreement had been fulfilled.
The container ship Joseph Schulte, which left the port of Odessa on August 16 at about 07:00 on August 18, entered the Bosphorus Strait, NTV reported.
A dry cargo ship flying the Hong Kong flag was in the port before the start of Russia's special military operation. The vessel with agricultural products was the first to enter the strait after the cancellation of the grain deal.
“The ship with grain, which anchored in Kumkoy last night, is currently passing through the Bosphorus,” the channel reported.
The route of the cargo ship is not specified.
As IA Regnum reported , on August 17, the Haber Global TV channel, citing sources in the Turkish Ministry of National Defense, informed that Ankara guaranteed the safe passage of ships with grain from the ports of Ukraine through the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus.
On August 16, Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Oleksandr Kubrakov said that a container ship with more than 30,000 tons of cargo left the port of Odessa. It became the first ship to use the temporary corridor opened by Kiev in the Black Sea. The vessel has been in the port of Odessa since February 23, 2022.
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[Regnum] Junior sergeant of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Ivan Skoropada, who was captured by the Russian troops, said that he had miraculously survived the battle, and after the battle they tried to finish him off by dropping a fragmentation grenade launcher shot from a drone and firing from a mortar.
19-year-old Skoropada told RIA Novosti that as a child he dreamed of becoming a military man and in 2021 he entered the Lviv Military School. Once at the front (near Marinka in the DPR), he discovered that experienced fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine prefer to send recruits to hot places. Unit leaders ordered him and other soldiers to dig trenches on the front line, one of the most dangerous spots, Skoropad said.
A battle ensued, in which the soldier was injured, lost a lot of blood and tried to surrender. Soldiers of the Russian Armed Forces assisted him, and at the same time, former own colleagues tried to finish him off, Skoropad noted.
“Then our drone flew in and dropped a VOG (fragmentation grenade shot. - Approx. ed.) Between me and your guys. I think so, mine saw that I was in captivity, but they did it on purpose so that I would not give anything to the Russians,” the fighter told reporters.
Skoropada also noted that he did not expect such a kind and caring attitude towards himself in captivity. Also, unable to restrain himself from tears, he said, addressing his relatives: "I am alive."
Earlier, representatives of the Russian Ministry of Defense, the authorities of the new regions of the country, as well as Western experts noted that the military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine began to surrender more often. The fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are aware of the humane treatment of them in Russia, and they are aware of the senselessness of the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and therefore the surrender has become “general”, said in August 2023 a former Pentagon adviser, Colonel Douglas McGregor.
On August 17, it was reported that three Ukrainian soldiers had crossed the Dnieper in a boat and surrendered to Russian soldiers due to starvation in positions, poor command attitudes, and lack of combat training. The "preparation" lasted only five days, after which the fighters were sent immediately to the front line, where the heads of the units never appeared, the prisoners told Russian journalists.
Military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who are aware of the criminality of the orders of their leadership to shell the peaceful quarters of cities and villages in Russia, should either point their weapons against the Kiev regime, or capitulate, in which case they are guaranteed a dignified and humane treatment, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on August 18.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] Yesterday I shot a little crookedly (I'm not a big specialist in professional photography - I usually shoot as I have to).
This is a departmental medal from the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation for information work during the NWO. The order was signed by Shoigu, handed over by the Deputy Minister of Defense.
Established relatively recently, in May 2021. Awarded to employees of the DIMK (General Konashenkov's structure) and journalists / military commissars for their work and success in information support for the armed forces.
She has no special privileges. The state simply notes the work done.
I never thought that I would get something like that, and no one warned me in advance - towards the end of the conference on information-psychological warfare, they said that after the end of the event I had to go to the next room, but they didn’t say why. There, one by one, they called and handed out medals in the presence of real heroes-scouts (I once again firmly shake hands with the guys, especially the readers of the channel).
Given the previous medal for humanitarian work, it can be said that the family gestalt is closed. Health did not allow me to get into the army, but the crooked path of copyright in a roundabout way led to near-military activities, allowing me to continue family traditions.
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