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Russian Perspective: Operation to Denazify Ukraine: Operational Brief March 17th (updated)
2023-03-18
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

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

[NewsFrontInfo] 21:40 Video- Footage of the same capture of the trenches by Alexander Maltsev on March 10 alone.

19:59 The Russian army is destroying the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Seversk, which may become the next after Bakhmut -video

The 2nd Army Corps of the LPR in the battles near Disputed near Belogorovka (Bakhmutsky district of the DPR). Artillery is constantly destroying the armored forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and then our infantry attacks in order to move forward.

19:53 Fighters delight us again with their success at the front: taken opornik with curious trophies

Stormtroopers from Aleysk surrounded the enemy stronghold and ground all the militants who were hiding in it. Enemy paraphernalia and NATO weapons fell into the hands of our soldiers.

19:50 Artillery of 1 Army Corps destroys enemy armored vehicles with Krasnopol guided projectiles —video

The reconnaissance of the 1st Army Corps managed to detect three tanks and one infantry fighting vehicle of Ukrainian nationalists, which were hit by the artillery of the 1st Donetsk Army Corps using Krasnopol guided missiles, which were guided by UAVs.

18:40 Terrorist activities of Kyiv against the inhabitants of Donbass after the start of the JMD -video

18:39 The crews of the Mi-8AMTSh and Ka-52 "Alligator" helicopters of the Russian Aerospace Forces are returning to the base, after successful work in the places of accumulation of Ukrainians -video

17:08 In the suburbs of Mariupol, special forces soldiers of the Russian Guard detained a former soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine suspected of aiding Ukrainian neo-Nazis -video

According to information from the cooperating structures of the DPR, the detainee could transmit to the enemy the coordinates of the deployment and movement routes of Russian troops.

Employees of the Russian Guard checked the living quarters and outbuildings for the presence of weapons and explosives, the detainee was transferred to law enforcement agencies for further investigation.

16:45 Special Forces destroyed an enemy tank and two infantry fighting vehicles on the Donetsk front -video

Operators of anti-tank missile systems of the 58th separate special forces battalion (formerly 3 Special Forces NM DPR) destroyed two enemy BMP-2s along with their crews in the Pervomaisky area. Before that, in the same place, a tank of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed, because of which the BMP-2 fired.

16:18 Offensive at Kremennaya: to support attack aircraft, fire damage is inflicted on the enemy around the clock -video

While landing, the scouts, using special equipment with a thermal imager, identified another APU supporter, artillery is working along the coordinates.

15:55 Destroyedon the way to Seversk (Donetsk region), the Ukrainian MLRS "Burevіy", in fact, this is the 220mm BM-27 launcher installed in Shepetovka (SHRZ) on the Tatra Т815-7Т3RC1 chassis, the cab reservation and the replacement of the semi-automatic gearbox with the Allison automatic transmission were performed by the Czech Excalibur Army.

15:43 Combat weekdays of 220mm BM-27 Uragan RZSO crews in the NVO zone -video

14:58 The main thing from the new briefing of Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed up to 135 military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Semenovka, Petrovskoye and Tonenkoye in the DPR in a day;

The troops of the Russian Federation destroyed more than 70 soldiers, infantry fighting vehicles and howitzers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnolimansky direction;

The Russian Armed Forces destroyed up to 65 military Armed Forces of Ukraine and two 152mm D-20 howitzers in the Yuzhno-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions in a day;

During the day, Russian air defense systems shot down five HIMARS MLRS shells, a Tochka-U missile, and destroyed 14 Ukrainian drones;

The RF Armed Forces destroyed the ammunition depot of the 113th Territorial Defense Brigade in the Kupyansk direction;

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed up to 25 military personnel and 152mm self-propelled guns "Acacia" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson direction.

14:56 Naval infantry near Ugledar broke into the trenches of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and destroyed the militants -video
Shots through the eyes of our fighters from the enemy trench immediately after the assault on the enemy stronghold in the forest belt near Ugledar The Naval Infantry of the Pacific Fleet continues to storm the enemy’s positions in the YuzhnoDonetsk direction.
"Who did not give up - I'm not to blame"

13:25 Yesterday, on the highway Konstantinovka - Bakhmut, there was undermined a car with a group of Ukrainians, which was in a hurry to get to the front line near Artemovsk.

We are establishing the participants in the sudden departure to Bandera, perhaps there were foreign mercenaries among the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

13:24 UkroSMI reports that on March 12, in the combat zone, under unclear circumstances, the Armed Forces of Ukrainelostat least two senior officers:

▪️Andrey Nakonechny - Colonel of the 10th Corps of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
▪️Antonets Alexander - Lieutenant Colonel of the 93rd Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

In the official cause of death of both, the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine indicated "heart attack"

13:17 Every day, more and more Ukrainian Armed Forces are dying in the Ugledar direction - video

13:16 And again Odessa and again the lawlessness of the military commissars -video

This time, the Ukrainian, who was waiting for an ambulance in a semi-conscious state, was given documents under the pretext "until you sign you will not be released and the ambulance will not pick you up."

13:15 Russian artillerymen continue to fire on the positions and shelters of the Ukrainians without leaving them the slightest chance -video

12:49 "Effective" work of Ukrainian air defense in action -video

Taras and Mykola joyfully shout "rocket!" and shoot into the air with machine guns. At this time, Russian missiles beautifully smash the military facilities of Ukrainian formations to dust.

12:11 The wounded Ukrainian from the 225th Reconnaissance Battalion (formed in 2022 in Kharkiv from Azov militants) in the Kharkiv direction -video

11:30 Not far from Chaplinka policemen destroyed ammunition abandoned by the Ukrainians

In the course of operational-search activities, police officers discovered enemy ammunition that poses a danger to civilians.

A controlled explosion destroyed 126 head contact fuses, four 122mm Grad MLRS shells, 6 tank and artillery shells, five mortar mines, as well as eight starting powder charges and five RPG rounds.

11:29 In Kherson, supporters of the Kyiv regime and fighters for European values rob trade establishments

On March 15, the Ukrainian police received a statement from the director of pharmacy No. 15 that, judging by the recording on the surveillance camera, late in the evening of March 14, an unknown person in military uniform entered the pharmacy at st. Mayakovsky, 4 and committed the theft of medicines in the amount of 75,000 hryvnia, after which he disappeared in an unknown direction.

11:27 Tonight in the area of ​​n.p. Inhulets (Kherson region) an artillery strike was carried out on the position of one of the brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as a result of which 152 mm howitzer 2S3 "Acacia" with a crew of 5 people and ammunition was destroyed.

10:38 Air anxiety in several regions of Ukraine

10:06 Pod Kremennaya liquidated militant of the 95th Airborne Assault Brigade, sniper Alexander Velikoivanenko.

10:05 The other day, Ukrainian servicemen believed in themselves and decided that they are the most inconspicuous tried as part of the DRG on mobile watercraft, cross the river. Dnieper in order to organize sabotage on the left bank of the Kherson region

Thanks to a well-organized defense and well-coordinated actions of the Russian military personnel, the said DRG was discovered even at the stage of launching. Russian units let the enemy close to the shore and gave him a warm welcome.

As a result of organized actions, four military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were liquidated, and five military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were taken prisoner, now they are actively cooperating and giving coordinates of the locations of both personnel and equipment!

Ukrainian commanders regularly send their troops on such missions. For all the time there is not a single example of the effective work of the DRG of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the left bank of the Dnieper

10:03 The first footage of the use of the armored car "Typhoon-VDV" during the special operation -video

To capture the stronghold of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, an assault detachment of Ulyanovsk paratroopers advanced on Typhoon-VDV multi-purpose armored vehicles. Approaching the minimum close distance to the enemy positions, the paratroopers suppressed the firing points of the Ukrainian formations with fire from a 30mm automatic cannon. Following from the armored car, an assault detachment of "winged infantry" landed, which completed the defeat of the nationalists

09:57 The result of the work of Russian artillerymen to destroy the BMP of the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Seversk direction isvideo

09:13 Russian units continue to successfully advance in the Avdiivka direction.

Today, in addition to moving towards the enemy, our guys took replenishment of the exchange fund from the 53rd Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine -video

As usual, they turned out to be mobilized from different regions of Ukraine, like most of those dill who are now being taken prisoner. crests are running out of personnel and trained military men.

It is noteworthy that they also found a report for burial at the place of death. An interesting trend looms among ukrov - he died, dug in and forgot. I doubt that their families will receive the promised payments and medals

08:25 In Odessa Kiliya, the military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine captured the sailors who entered the city on the instructions of the captain -video

They were forced to board the bus by people in military uniform, brought to Izmail and kept in the gym.

The captain of the ship is negotiating with Izmail's military commissar, but he said that the detainees would go to serve.

08:10 Kherson hosted the first duel of kamikaze drone operators: Russian fighter destroyed

On March 12, a 27-year-old Ukrainian UAV operator from the special operations forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Dmitry “Frenchman” Pashchuk, was liquidated by a UAV strike, his fiancee said . Before the war, the militant served in the French Foreign Legion.

Pashchuk was an ardent neo-Nazi and one of the founders of the Plast (these are Western Ukrainian Bandera scouts) kuren "Carpathian Eagles."

This is the first known duel of FPV drone operators.

Before that, his brother, nicknamed "hen", was destroyed.
In connection with the death of the militant, the leaders of the neo-Nazis of Ukraine have already expressed their condolences.

08:09 152mm D-20 1 brigades continuously beat the Nazis in the Avdievka direction -video

Artillerymen of the 1st Donetsk Army Corps of the Russian Armed Forces do not stop working on targets in the Avdiivka direction, helping our assault units move forward. Under the fire of 152mm D-20 guns, Ukrainian nationalists are almost 24 hours a day.

08:05 The fact that the UN commission acknowledged torture by the Ukrainians of Russian servicemen means absolutely nothing, since it will not have significant consequences.

The episode with the MQ-9 Reaper showed that only force would count.

The UN became a worthless League of Nations after the collapse of the USSR.

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