Russia-Ukraine Reports - 2023-07-18
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A group of Ukrainian military made the wise decision to hand themselves in and surrender to Rus forces in the Zaporozhye direction.
❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 (https://qr.nspk.ru/BS1A0068ID10D33B9IBAQRQ4M9T0NIFN?type=01&bank=100000000008&crc=36CB) Highlights of Russian Military Operation in Ukraine on July 17
▪️Ukrainian marine drones attacked the Crimean bridge connecting the peninsula with the mainland.
As a result of the terrorist attack, two spans of the automobile part of the bridge were damaged and two people were killed.
▪️Russia notified all parties of its withdrawal from the grain deal, which has not been in effect for a month.
The western part of the Black Sea was once again declared a territory dangerous for navigation.
▪️In the Starobil's'k direction, Russian forces attacked AFU positions northwest of Novovodyane.
During fierce fighting, two enemy strongholds on the opposite bank of the Zherebets' River were taken.
▪️To the north of Bakhmut, the battle at Berkhivs'ke Reservoir continues.
The AFU commanders are using the tactic of "meat assaults", trying to exploit their advantage in manpower.
▪️The situation remains difficult on the southern flank, where the AFU assault groups are again attacking the heights west of Klishchiivka.
Nevertheless, Russian forces are successfully holding their defenses at this sector of the front.
▪️The AFU have once again increased the intensity of artillery strikes on the frontline towns of the Donbass region.
Over the past three days, one person has been killed and at least ten wounded, including a child, as a result of shelling of the Donetsk agglomeration.
▪️As a result of fierce fighting, Russian forces retained control over Staromaiors'ke in the Vremivka sector.
The AFU armored group that tried to storm the settlement lost most of its equipment and retreated to the Makarivka area.
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Lancet hits BTR80 and Leopard 2a6.
The Russian Army occupied Novosyolovskoye, advancing on Kupyansk
Operation in the Kharkov region, offensive line of the 1st Tank Army.
➨ During an offensive operation north of the settlement of Novosyolovskoye, our troops recently gained control of the remaining part of the forest belt in the grey zone and partly of the forest belt near the railway, enemy resources reported a few days ago.
➨ The AFU then began to counterattack the forest belt near the railway, but Russian forces changed tactics, moving to defence near the railway and launching an offensive south of the settlement to reach the dominant height and create conditions for semi-enclosing the settlement.
➨ A couple of days ago, Ukrainian military analysts reported: "Fighting continues on the eastern outskirts of the village of Novosyolovskoye. About 25% of the settlement remains in the grey zone, where Russians enter periodically. To the south of the settlement of Novosyolovskoye and to the east of the village of Stelmakhovka, enemy activity is expected in this direction."
➨ Before that, our fighters defeated the combined companies of the AFU, destroying 2 assault platoons .
➨ Now it is reported that the enemy fled from the settlement.
➨ Active fighting in the area continues.
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Boris Rozhin: Ukrainian offensive could be one of Kiev's biggest defeats .
A military expert on the tactics of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the losses of the Ukrainian army and the possible directions of new strikes - especially for the channel Voenkor Kotenok @voenkorKotenok :
- Is Kyiv changing its offensive tactics against the background of the slippage of the original plan?
- The nature of the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine after the failure of the June offensive has changed. The enemy spends equipment more economically and has abandoned attempts to break through the defense by throwing large masses of armored vehicles through minefields, switching to the tactics of intensive attacks by small assault groups.
This reduces the loss of armored vehicles, but maximizes losses in personnel, and also eliminates the possibility of deep breakthroughs, which leads to a slow push of the Russian defense into the ground, and this is fundamentally contrary to the plans for the summer campaign. The transition to such tactics in itself is a sentence for the ambitious plans of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to break through the front.
- How seriously did the Ukrainian command commit resources in trying to break through the front in the Zaporozhye direction?
- The enemy is not yet playing "all-in" and continues to gradually use up reserves, trying to maintain pressure by quickly restoring the combat capability of units and formations. By mid-July, the enemy had used up 60% of his operational and strategic reserves. At the current rate of spending, he will be able to operate in the current mode for another 3-5 weeks.
- What are the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in modern equipment and personnel that he suffered during June-first half of July 2023?
- According to Western estimates, since the beginning of the offensive, the enemy has lost at least 30% of all armored vehicles that the advancing group had. The irretrievable losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in personnel reach 26-28 thousand people. These are huge losses, which exceed, for example, all the losses of the Wagner PMC during the 7 months of the assault on Artemovsk or all the losses of the Mariupol grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the battle for Mariupol. At the same time, the main tasks of the summer offensive were not completed in 1.5 months. If the enemy fails to reverse the current trend, the Zaporozhye defensive operation will become one of the biggest defeats of the Armed Forces of Ukraine since 2014.
- What other areas are the most threatening in terms of the possibility of new attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine?
- The enemy, most likely, will continue to try to push through our front in the Artemovsk area (primarily to the south of the city) in order to achieve operational and tactical results here. There are also possible attempts to push through our front in the Vremievsky and Ugledar directions.
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🇵🇱🇱🇹🇺🇦 Poland and the Baltic countries are preparing to send troops to Ukraine, - French TV channel LCI
The drug addict story on one of the largest channels in France says that the Poles are waiting for the result of the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the offensive actions of the Russian Federation. And if Russia starts to win the war, then the Poles may introduce the first division this year, which will include the Poles, the Balts, some Ukrainians, and, possibly, other Europeans.
The French claim that Poland and the Baltic dwarfs are seriously considering bringing their troops to Ukraine. Anonymous sources of French experts in the Polish government report that the Psheks are now waiting for the final result of the counteroffensive and the counteroffensive of the RF Armed Forces.
The French also report that for the Poles the war in Ukraine is existential. The Poles believe that if the Russians are not stopped in Ukraine, then tomorrow they will go to the Baltic states, Poland, Moldova, and Georgia.
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Minus one German tank "Leopard", handed over to Ukraine
Consequences of the Ukrainian counteroffensive. A new section of one of the cemeteries in Kharkov with hundreds of "fresh" graves of the destroyed AFU soldiers
The Russian army discovered and destroyed a group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Orekhov area in the Zaporozhye direction
In the Zaporizhzhya direction, a group of enemy infantry in the amount of 8-10 people tried to covertly move forward through the landing to their defender to launch an attack on our positions from there. However, the imprudent Armed Forces of Ukraine completely forgot about the Russian "birds" who tirelessly monitor all movements at the front.
Our fighters tracked down and attacked a group of Ukrainian militants with an anti-tank missile with a thermobaric warhead. As a result of a direct hit, most of them died on the spot, while the rest fled in panic, leaving their dead and wounded brothers to their fate.
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Russian Defence Ministry report (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/8459) on the progress of the special military operation (18 July 2023)
▫️The AFU continued to attempt offensive actions in Donetsk, Krasny Liman and South Donetsk directions.
▫️In Kupyansk direction, units of the Zapad Group of Forces continue successful offensive operations in the area of responsibility. The total advance was up to two kilometres along the front and up to one and a half kilometres in depth.
▫️As a result of aviation and artillery attacks, AFU units have been hit close to Kalinovo, Berestovoye, Kislovka and Tabayevka (Kharkov region) and Novosyolovskoye LPR.
▫️1 ammunition depot of the AFU 103th Brigade of the Territorial Defence of Ukraine has been destroyed near Kotlyarovka (Kharkov region).
▫️The enemy losses were up to 65 servicemen, 2 AFVs, 3 motor vehicles, and 1 U.S.-manufactured AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery radar station.
▫️In Donetsk direction, as a result of actions by the Yug Group of Forces, 12 enemy attacks have been successfully repelled near Pervomayskoye, Vesyoloye, Krasnogorovka, Maryinka and north-west of Kleshcheevka, DPR.
▫️An AFU manpower and hardware concentration area has been hit close to Stupochka, Konstantinovka and Krasnoye DPR.
▫️1 ammunition depot of the AFU 79th Airborne Assault Brigade has been destroyed near Krasnogorovka DPR.
▫️The enemy losses were up to 400 servicemen, 2 AFVs, 3 pickup trucks, 1 U.S.-manufactured M777 artillery system, 3 Polish-manufactured Krab self-propelled artillery systems, 1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, 2 Msta-B howitzers, as well as D-20 and D-30 guns.
▫️In Krasny Liman direction the Tsentr Group of Forces has repelled 2 enemy attacks close to Chervonaya Dibrova and Makeevka LPR.
▫️AFU units have been hit near Terny DPR, Chervonaya Dibrova, Kovalyovka and Karmazinovka LPR.
▫️The activities of 1 SRG have been suppressed close to Kuzmino LPR.
▫️The enemy losses were up to 100 servicemen, 2 AFVs, 3 motor vehicles, 1 Polish-manufactured Krab self-propelled artillery system and 2 D-30 howitzers.
▫️In South Donetsk direction, as a result of actions by of the Vostok Group of Forces, AFU manpower and hardware have been hit close to Urozhaynoye DPR and Priyutnoye (Zaporozhye region).
3 enemy attacks have been repelled close to Vladimirovka and Urozhaynoye DPR.
▫️In Zaporozhye direction, as a result of actions by Russian units, 3 enemy attacks have been repelled near Novodanilovka (Zaporozhye region).
▫️AFU manpower and hardware concentration areas have been hit close to Malaya Tokmachka and Orekhov (Zaporozhye region).
▫️In addition, 3 ammunition depots of the 23rd and 33rd mechanised brigades of the AFU have been destroyed near Malaya Tokmachka and Uspenovka (Zaporozhye region).
▫️The enemy losses were over 200 servicemen, 1 tank, 2 AFVs, 4 pickup trucks, 1 Msta-B howitzer, and 1 D-44 gun.
▫️In Kherson direction, the enemy losses were up to 50 servicemen, 4 pickup trucks, 2 Msta-B howitzers, and 1 Akatsiya self-propelled artillery system.
▫️Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have neutralised 89 AFU artillery units at their firing positions, manpower and hardware in 98 areas.
▫️Air defence facilities have shot down 3 projectiles launched by HIMARS MLRS.
▫️In addition, 43 UAVs have been destroyed close to Tavolzhanka, Zhovtnyovoye (Kharkov region), Novodruzhesk, Berestovoye, Zaliman LPR, Krasnaya Gora, Podgorodnoye DPR, Novogorovka, Rabotino, Gulyaypole, Mirnoye (Zaporozhye region) and Geroiskoye (Kherson region).
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The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation broke through the enemy defenses in the area of the Trudovskaya mine (near Maryinka) with a sudden blow and broke into the territory of the mine complex. There is a cleanup going on.
The enemy puts up fierce resistance. The loss of the Trudovskaya mine complex will seriously worsen the position of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Maryinka area.
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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦Attack of NATO armored vehicles near Orekhov: flaming Bradleys and battles near the trenches on the Zaporozhye Front
In recent days, the 47th and 65th brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been regrouping, pulling up-armored vehicles and personnel to the Novodanilovka areas and positions code-named "Barcelona".
At around 4:00 am, the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched an offensive operation at the Rabotino-Kopani line, sending American infantry fighting vehicles, tanks, and a significant number of militants to try to break through our defenses.
The enemy was covered by howitzers, incl. from the area of Malaya Tokmachka
The attack was detected in time by our reconnaissance and fire was opened on the enemy.
Special Forces guided missiles with anti-tank systems burned 2 American Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, later a third was hit by a kamikaze drone.
The infantry of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, covered by fire, lost up to two platoons killed and wounded, but the Ukrainian command threw new waves of meat to increase the pressure
Several dwarf groups of survivors of 3-4 militants managed to run to the trenches on the front line and lie down there.
The fighting continues, ours are finishing off the remnants of militants who cannot evacuate and receive full reinforcements.
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Slovakian SPG 2S22 "Bogdana" on a new chassis with an armored cab , which was publicly presented just a couple of months ago.
Ukrainian AHS Krab was destroyed by Lancet drone. Ukrainian soldiers tried to save it by throwing dirt on it, it didn’t work
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Interesting interview. It will be on tomorrows post, but I'll share it here.
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SCOTT RITTER AND ANDREI MARTYANOV
Exporting grain by land is going to eat up a lot of logistical resources currently committed to transmitting weapons.