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Blocking the advance of the AFU in the Kherson region. Details
After the Kh-101 cruise missile strikes on the Karachun dam in Kryvyi Rih and raised the level of the Ingulets River, the supply of battalion tactical groups to the AFU at the Andreevsky bridgehead was successfully minimized. Units of the 57th AFU Brigade and paratroopers from the 46th AFU Aeromobile Brigade have partially blocked in the Andreevka-Sukhoy Stavok "firing bag" area, through which the AFU wanted to advance on Beryslav.
The destruction of the Ukrainian SDF company and the death of the Ukrainian paratroopers on the Kinburn Spit sent to probe the RFU defenses on the southwestern flank of the Kherson Fortified Area put an end to the diversionary strike intended to draw our forces and assets from the Andreevsky bridgehead sector. As a consequence, artillery and anti-tank units of the Russian Airborne Troops and Navy continue to remain in their previous positions and provide fire resistance to the mechanized reserves of the AFU, which are pulling up to the Andreevsky bridgehead from the western coast of Inhults. After all, the latter is expecting a decrease in the river level and flow velocity for a second attempt to force the Ingults River and strengthen the offensive potential of the Andreevsky bridgehead.
Nevertheless, tactical landing troops, mortar crews, and Stugna-P missile launchers, although sporadically, continue to saturate the still surviving backbone of the Andreevsky bridgehead. This redeployment is carried out through occasional flights of military transport Mi-8 helicopters of the AFU, which arrive on the eastern bank of Inhults during the temporary windows of an absence of the Russian Su-35S on combat duty.
Information about these windows is kindly provided to the General Staff of the AFU by operators of AWACS and Rivet Joint radio reconnaissance aircraft of the US Air Force, which is daily borne in the northeastern part of the Romanian airspace.
Meanwhile, Kiev's attempt to regulate the water level in the river has come to nothing: the third strike on the water infrastructure in Kryvyi Rih raised the level of the Ingulets by almost 1 m in just three hours.
Consequently, the possibility of transferring large volumes of AFU armored vehicles to the eastern bank of the Ingulets River will be ruled out for the foreseeable future.
To back up the encircled units in Sukhoy Stavka should have been units of the AFU from Novopoltavka, 10 km to the south-west, but there are elite units, including two battalions of the 35th AFU Marine Brigade, on the verge of operational encirclement due to the river overflow.
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❗️Russian Federation Ministry of Defence summary on the progress of the SAEs in Ukraine (18.09.2022)
Part 1
💥 In the Nikolayev-Krivoy Rog direction, the enemy with three company tactical groups of the 60th Infantry Brigade and the 57th Motorized Infantry Brigade supported by six tanks made unsuccessful offensive attempts in the areas of Myrolyubovka, Malaya Seideminukha, and Belogorka in the Kherson region. All the attacks were successfully repelled by units of the Russian Armed Forces.
💥 High-precision weapons of the Russian Air Force hit personnel and military equipment of the units of the 28th Mechanized Brigade and the 79th Airborne Assault Brigade of the AFU near the city of Mykolaiv. Over a day of combat operations in this direction, Ukrainian troops suffered losses of over 180 servicemen, two tanks, seven armored fighting vehicles, three guns, and 10 vehicles.
💥 Russia's air force, missile troops, and artillery launched massive fire strikes on the Ukrainian Armed Forces units and reserves. Units of the 65th mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian armed forces were hit by concentrated fire near the village of Kirovo, Zaporizhzhya Region. The enemy suffered losses of up to a hundred Ukrainian servicemen and more than ten pieces of military equipment. As a result of the strikes on the positions of the 54th and 93rd mechanized brigades and the 10th Mountain Assault Brigade of the AFU in the areas of Verkhnekamenske, Spornoe, Berestove, Artemovsk, and Zaitsevo of the Donetsk People's Republic, the enemy suffered losses of over 110 servicemen and 20 pieces of military equipment.
💥 High-precision strikes by the Russian Air Force against the sites of concentration of manpower and military equipment of the 14th Mechanized Brigade in the areas of Kochetok, Rogan, Doroshenkovo, Velyka Babka, and Chuguev in Kharkiv Oblast, the 63rd Mechanized Brigade near Veremievka and the 3rd Independent Territorial Defense Battalion near Myrolubivka in Kherson Oblast destroyed over 150 Ukrainian servicemen and 17 armored vehicles and special military equipment.
◽️ The 24th battalion of the Aydar national formation of the 53rd mechanized brigade lost over half of its personnel during combat operations near the settlement of Zaitsevo, Donetsk People's Republic. The AFU command withdrew the remnants of the unit to Chasov Yar in the Donetsk People's Republic.
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Yep. Good luck getting Mariupol back, Ze. The Russians are there to stay.