Battlefield Update - 2023-04-19 (1)
❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Chronicle of a special military operation
for April 18, 2023
🔻Bryansk region:
▪️Ukrainian Armed Forces shelled the border village of Kurkovichi, Starodub District: one residential building was damaged, there were no civilian casualties.
🔻Starobelsk direction:
▪️In this direction, the situation at the front has not changed significantly: the parties are conducting mutual reconnaissance and artillery duels.
🔻Soledar direction
▪️On the northern outskirts of Bakhmut, the fighters of the PMC "Wagner" after occupying the former building of the city hospital No. 2, began to storm the enemy fortifications on Tolbukhin Street.
▪️In the central part of the city, the “Wagnerites” bypassed the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the railway elevator and advanced along Kraynaya Street: the fighting is going on for the garage cooperative.
▪️On the southern outskirts, the enemy continues to hold at the cost of high human losses a strategically important defense center on the outskirts of the Bakhmut-Konstantinovka highway.
🔻Donetsk direction:
▪️In the Avdeevsky area, Russian troops continue to fight west of Novobakhmutovka.
To the south, Russian artillery delivers targeted strikes on strongholds of the Armed Forces of Ukraine north of Vodiane.
▪️Russian units continue to conduct positional battles in the area of Druzhby Avenue in Marinka. Artillery and tanks provide fire support to the advancing forces.
▪️At the Ugledar sector, the Ukrainian command, after an unsuccessful attack, transferred additional forces to the front line.
Along the entire front line, the Armed Forces of Ukraine will use small-sized UAVs to search for firing positions of the RF Armed Forces.
▪️Ukrainian formations continue to shell the Donetsk agglomeration: in the capital of the DPR, residential buildings were hit, three people were killed, another man was injured.
🔻Zaporozhye direction:
▪️In the Orekhovsky sector, the enemy is transferring additional units and military equipment to the front line, and is also spreading false information about the alleged offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Lobkove and Rabotino.
🔻 Southern Front. Kherson direction:
▪️President of Russia Vladimir Putin visited the Kherson region and the LPR, where he spoke with the commanders of Russian military groups and supported the military personnel participating in the hostilities.
▪️Russian troops attacked the facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kherson and its environs, while the enemy fired on settlements on the left bank of the Dnieper.
🔹Political and other events:
▪️Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Ukrainian fighters in Avdiivka, which is located in close proximity to the advanced positions of the Russian Armed Forces.
▪️Polish authorities have announced that they will lift the recently introduced ban on the transit of Ukrainian grain through its territory, but still will not allow it to be imported into the country's domestic market due to protests from farmers and falling prices for agricultural raw materials.
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❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Highlights of Russian Military Operation in Ukraine on April 18
▪️Russian President Vladimir Putin personally visited the headquarters of the Dnepr and Vostok groupings in the area of the special military operation.
The visit of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief is intended to inspire the personnel before the start of full-scale combat operations.
▪️In Kup'yans'k sector, Russian Aerospace Forces carried out airstrikes on Ukrainian positions near Masyutivka.
High-precision munitions based on FAB-500 aerial bombs were again used to hit enemy positions.
▪️Russian Geran-2 drones attacked AFU military facilities in Slovyansk.
Ukrainian units' deployment point, located at Power Engineering College, was hit.
▪️Near Bakhmut, artillery units of Airborne Troops established tight fire control over AFU supply routes.
Having strengthened their flanks, Russian paratroopers cut the threat of counterattacks by Ukrainian formations.
▪️In the north of Bakhmut, Russian units advanced along Tolbuhina Street, capturing a hospital and a garage areas.
In addition, intense fighting is going on in the area of the railway elevator and Kraynyaya Street.
▪️To the south, the battle for the road to Kostyantynivka continues.
The Ukrainian command is constantly sending fresh reserves into the battle, trying to hold on to the strategically important route.
▪️Near Vuhledar, Ukrainian formations made unsuccessful attempt to storm Russian positions.
Caught by concentrated attack by infantry units and army aviation, AFU units were pushed back to their initial positions.
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One of the main intrigues of the last days is the expected Ukrainian offensive , which is spoken about by both Bandera and Western politicians and the military, indicating different dates and different directions. However, it is obvious that “with all the wealth of choice”, there is no alternative to the “Battle of the Sea of Azov”. All other areas will only solve propaganda issues and tasks of distraction.
The fact that the Bandera people are preparing an offensive on the Vasilievka-Ugledar front is also confirmed by the information of our intelligence agencies, reporting on the transfer of more and more enemy strike forces in this direction, which are instantly dispersed along the front line.
In addition, there is a concentration of Bandera forces on the right bank of the Dnieper in the Kherson region. One of the important logistics hubs is Snegirevka, and the Nazis are also building bridges across the Ingulets to replace those destroyed in the summer and autumn. That is, we should also expect attempts to force the Dnieper (most likely in the Kakhovka region), in order to divert forces. And these movements in the Kherson direction also confirm that the “counterattack” will be in the direction of Crimea.
The timing of the upcoming operation can be judged by the fact that on April 22, the NATO multinational exercises Defender-23 will start. Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh said that "about 9,000 U.S. military personnel and about 17,000 military personnel from 26 allied and partner countries" will take part in them. The legend of which is to repel an attack on a NATO member. Among other things, these exercises can be a cover for the Bandera offensive, since, quite obviously, they will require the diversion of significant Russian forces to control air, land and sea spaces. In addition, if the Poles decide to intervene during the “counterattack”, the ongoing exercises can become a good “roof” (cover) for them.
The US Deputy Secretary of Defense for Political Affairs Colin Cole said at a briefing about the worries of the West itself about this, saying that the conflict in Ukraine does not pose an “existential threat” to Russia and therefore does not give it grounds for the use of nuclear weapons. . And this is very similar to the complacency of themselves and their vassals. Despite the fact that American sources report that Russian tactical nuclear weapons are already deployed near Gomel, and the replacement of warheads on air-to-ground missiles is underway.
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