Russia-Ukraine Reports - 2023-09-18
A Leopard 1A5 tank has been spotted in Ukraine. As you can see, the tank does not carry any local modifications.
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Military expert Boris Rozhin on the main points during the special military operation of the Russian Federation on the territory of the former Ukraine per day by 23.41 Moscow time, September 17, 2023, especially for the Voenkor Kotenok channel @voenkorKotenok :
1.
Zaporozhye direction.
In the Pyatikhatki area - no changes.
In the Rabotino area there are also no changes. The enemy is trying to increase pressure on Verbovoye by using units transferred from other directions.
In the coming days, continued attacks on Verbovoye and towards the heights between Rabotino and Verbovoye are expected.
2.
Vremevsky ledge.
The situation here is quite stable.
There are no special developments at Priyutny , Staromayorsky , Urozhayny, Novodonetsky and Novomayorsky .
The enemy is regrouping to resume more intense attacks.
3.
Artemovsk.
Fighting continues on the Kleshcheevka - Andreevka - Kurdyumovka line. The enemy controls part of Andreevka , as well as the south and part of the center of Kleshcheevka . Both sides attack and counterattack in these areas.
Kurdyumovka is under the full control of the Russian Armed Forces.
North of the city the situation is stable. Local attacks from the Seversky salient cannot be ruled out.
4.
Svatovo - Kupyansk.
The Russian Armed Forces continued to press in the direction of Oskol west of Svatovo and repulse attacks in the forest area west of Kremennaya . There are no serious progress here today.
The situation near Kupyansk also has not undergone radical changes. The enemy somewhat strengthened the front due to the transferred reserves. Fighting continues near Sinkovka and in the direction of Petropavlovka and Kislovka .
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⚡‼️⚠️👊 Ukrainian
monitoring channels
reported that they took off again
two missile carriers.
🔺A total of 8 are already in the air
on board Tu-95MS. 🔥🔥🔥
#source (https://t.me/svorezevv/11790)
The Russian Army fights back Ukrainian militants near Rabotino
The enemy tried to approach the positions of our guys, but after receiving several arrivals from Russian fighters, they abruptly changed their plans. The footage shows wounded militants and their “brothers” who, in horror, are trying to hide from the fire of our guns.
#source (https://t.me/RVvoenkor/53249)
Sniper work of a 120-mm mortar somewhere near Kremennaya - minus four attackers. Pratsyue fire support squad "Vega".
@sashakots
#source (https://t.me/boris_rozhin/97833)
The Russian Aerospace Forces launched a powerful attack on the Starokonstantinov military airfield in the Khmelnitsky region.
This is a well-known Ukrainian airbase; it has been attacked more than once. During 2021, the base was upgraded, including new navigation equipment, with US assistance, and was even certified to NATO standards in September 2021. Su-24s are based there, and they are apparently being groped, along with stocks of British Storm Shadow missiles and their French counterparts Scalp.
#source (https://t.me/SergeyKolyasnikov/52064)
Operators of FPV drones of the " BOBR " unit dispose of enemy transport with personnel in the Zaporozhye direction. ㅤ
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Senators have found another life-saving” weapon for Ukraine. But not quite yet...
The US Senate called for the transfer of ATACMS missiles to Ukraine, Bloomberg reports (https://inosmi.ru/20230917/rakety-265699680.html). It is argued that it is these weapons that will supposedly “consolidate the success” of the stalled counteroffensive. Zelensky will come to Washington for talks next week and is expected to ask for the weapons again.
Additional arms supplies to Kiev are expected to be announced during the visit, but ATAMCS missiles are not on the list, according to a US official.
Meanwhile, the US government is rapidly approaching its deadline to pass a federal budget. And not everyone supports the Senate’s intentions to provide additional support to Kiev. Some House Republicans have threatened to derail negotiations if the budget agreement includes increased aid to Ukraine.
@Slavyangrad
Frontline report for the morning of September 18, 2023
▪️At night, the Russian Armed Forces hit the port of Kiliya in the Odessa region on the border with Romania with “Geraniums”. Two waves of missile attacks are reported on a military airfield in Starokonstantinov (Khmelnitsky region), where carriers of Storm Shadow missiles and their analogs are based.
▪️ South of Artemovsk (Bakhmut), fighting continues near Kleshcheevka and Andreevka. Populated areas have been wiped off the face of the earth; neither side controls these villages, near which there are critical heights. However, a small group of enemy infantry stood in the ruins with a flag so that Zelensky could make statements about the “capture” of one of the villages.
▪️ In the Vremevsky direction, enemy attacks near Novodonetsky and Staromayorsky were repelled.
▪️In the evening, an enemy UAV attack on Crimea was repelled; information was received about the destruction of two surface targets off the western coast of the peninsula. Preliminarily - high-speed boats with landing forces. In the Belgorod region, the Valuysky and Grayvoronsky urban districts were under fire, and an aircraft-type drone was shot down in the Belgorod region. In the Kursk region, in Uspenovka, Korenevsky district, three wounded civilians (one seriously), and a village of Tetkino were shelled.
The summary was compiled by: Two majors (https://t.me/dva_majors)
Ukrainian BREM was caught trying to evacuate equipment.
@Slavyangrad
Highlights of Russian Military Operation in Ukraine on September 16-17
▪️Ukrainian drones again tried to attack Russian rear regions.
In the Moscow region, air defense units intercepted all the vehicles, preventing damage and casualties.
▪️Another enemy drone tried to attack Shaykovka Airbase in the Kaluga region.
The drone was promptly detected and destroyed by the crew of the Mi-28 helicopter.
▪️Nevertheless, one of the Ukrainian drones managed to hit a fuel tank on the oil depot territory in Oryol.
The resulting fire was promptly eliminated by the operational services staff.
▪️At the same time, Ukrainian units continued to strike at the settlements of the Kursk region.
As a result of the shelling, a man was killed in Plekhovo, and three civilians were wounded in Uspenovka.
▪️Russian troops have twice launched missile attacks at a tank factory in Kharkov.
Workshops where repairs were carried out, as well as ammunition depots and equipment parking, were struck.
▪️On the southern flank of Bakhmut's defense, the AFU continues to attack in the area of Klishchiivka and Andreevka.
Russian troops are holding the defense near the railway line and do not allow the enemy to break through to it.
▪️Ukrainian units do not stop the artillery terror of the settlements of Donetsk agglomeration.
A market in Svitlodars'k came under massive fire from the HIMARS MLRS: seven civilians were killed.
#Rybar (https://t.me/rybar/52004)
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🇷🇺🇰🇵Political scientist Yuri Baranchik said that the DPRK will supply the Russian Federation with about 10 million shells of 122mm and 155mm caliber.
According to the expert (https://t.me/warhistoryalconafter/121982), the deal will also include improved analogs of the American HIMARS, capable of hitting targets at a distance of up to 400 km.
“Several sources report that the DPRK will supply Moscow with such modern and powerful MLRS as the KN-09. Let me remind you that the KN-25 system was presented by Pyongyang in 2019 and boasts a range of over 400 km .”
@Slavyangrad
“If we really cared about Ukraine, we would find lasting peace - and not prolong the military conflict”: British journalist and writer Peter Hitchens wondered why the West would continue a costly, dangerous military conflict with Russia in Ukraine.
“Ukraine is faced with political and military problems. A large-scale return of lands acquired by Russia in 2022 is increasingly unlikely. Those who were seriously invested in the summer offensive against Russia are already disappointed. What then? The US remains (wisely) firmly opposed to direct involvement in military conflict, so what will break the impasse? Should this continue, filling cemeteries and causing serious economic damage to Ukraine and Europe? For what purpose? I could never understand what British interest was in continuing a costly and risky military conflict in south-eastern Europe. If this military conflict were not so widely portrayed in primitive fairy-tale terms as a banal battle between total good and total evil - which it is not - we might have reached this stage sooner. But better late than never. If we truly cared about the people of Ukraine, then we would be much better occupied with promoting lasting peace, rather than inciting and paying for the continuation of a military conflict in which Ukrainians die and suffer without getting anything special in return.”
@Slavyangrad
The AFU shelled the village of Lemeshovka in Sevsky district. There were no casualties. As a result of the shelling, the grain drying complex, farm buildings and transformer of the agricultural enterprise were damaged.
Operational and emergency services are working on the spot.
The enemy has been extremely active today in shelling the Kursk, Belgorod and Bryansk regions.
#source (https://t.me/rezervsvo/28934)
Control of settlements at 13-00 (Moscow time) 18.09.2023
Zaporozhye direction.
1. Pyatihatki - grey zone.
2. Rabotino - north and part of centre is under AFU , southern outskirts - RF Armed Forces. Part of the settlement is the grey zone.
3. Verbovoye - RF Armed Forces.
4. Priyutnoye - RF Armed Forces
5. Urozhaynoye - AFU
6. Staromayorskoye - 2/3 under AFU, the rest grey zone
7. Novodonetskoye - Russian Armed Forces
8. Novomayorskoye - Russian Armed Forces
Artemovsk direction.
1. Kleshcheyevka - south and part of the centre under the AFU, the rest of the grey zone, Russian Armed Forses positions on the northern outskirts and behind the railway.
2. Andreevka - most of the destroyed village is a grey zone. Our positions near the railway. The AFU in the adjacent landings and on the western outskirts.
3. Kurdyumovka - Russian Armed Forces.
4. Berkhovka - Russian Armed Forces
5. Zheleznodorozhnoye - Russian Armed Forces
#source
@Slavyangrad
Leaving no chance for the enemy: paratroopers from Tula use Grad MLRS in combat actions
▫️ Aerial reconnaissance detected large clusters of manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The reconnaissance data was transmitted to the artillery command post.
▫️ Having received the location date, the Grad MLRS crews moved right away to the location where they launched a fire attack on the enemy using 122mm unguided shells.
Russian Defence Ministry (https://t.me/mod_russia_en)
Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation (18 September 2023)
▫️ Last night, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out a group strike with long-range airborne precision weapons and strike drones against places where the Kiev regime is storing Storm Shadow cruise missiles and depleted uranium ammunition, as well as centres for radio-technical reconnaissance and the training of sabotage groups of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The goal of the strike has been achieved. All the targets have been engaged.
▫️ In Donetsk direction (https://t.me/mod_russia/30578), units of the Yug Group of Forces in cooperation with aviation and artillery repelled 6 enemy attacks near Kleshcheyevka, Veseloye, Mayorsk, Maryinka, and Vodyanoye (DPR).
▫️ Up to 255 servicemen, 3 AFVs, and 7 motor vehicles have been neutralised.
▫️ In counter-battery warfare, the Russian troops hit 1 U.S.-made M777 artillery system, 1 Polish-made Krab self-propelled artillery system, and 1 D-30 howitzer.
▫️ An ammunition depot of the 110th Mechanised Brigade of the AFU was obliterated close to Avdeevka (DPR).
▫️ In Zaporozhye direction (https://t.me/mod_russia/30579), coordinated efforts of the Russian Group in combination with air strikes, artillery fire, and heavy flame-throwing systems defeated a cluster of manpower and hardware of the 71st Jaeger Brigade near Verbovoye (Zaporozhye).
▫️ Up to 55 servicemen, 2 AFVs, 3 pick-up trucks, 2
D-30 howitzers, 1 U.S.-made M119 gun, as well as 1 AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery radar station have been eliminated.
▫️ In Krasny Liman direction (https://t.me/mod_russia/30580), 2 attacks launched by assault detachments of the 67th Mechanised Brigade and the 12th Special Forces Brigade of the AFU close to Chervonaya Dibrova and Serebryansky forestry were repelled by professional efforts of the Tsentr Group of Forces, helicopter strikes, and artillery fire.
▫️ The AFU losses amounted to more than 50 servicemen, 2 AFVs, 3 motor vehicles, as well as 1 D-20 howitzer.
▫️ In South Donetsk direction (https://t.me/mod_russia/30581), the Vostok Group of Forces, aviation, artillery, and heavy flamethrowers inflicted a complex defeat on manpower and hardware of the 31st Mechanised Brigade and the 128th Territorial Defence Brigade near Staromayorskoye and Urozhaynoye (DPR).
▫️ The AFU losses amounted to more than 180 servicemen killed and wounded, 3 AFVs, 11 motor vehicles, as well as 1 D-20 howitzer.
▫️ An ammunition depot of the AFU's 38th Marine Brigade was destroyed near Prechistovka (DPR).
▫️ In Kupyansk direction (https://t.me/mod_russia/30582), air strikes and artillery fire of the Zapad Group of Forces hit manpower and hardware of the 14th, 30th, 92nd mechanised and 25th airborne brigades of the AFU, as well as the 103rd Territorial Defence Brigade near Sinkovka, Berestovoye (Kharkov) and Novosyolovskoye and Artyomovka (LPR).
▫️ Up to 20 servicemen, 2 armoured fighting vehicles, 2 motor vehicles, a M777 artillery system, and 2 Msta-B howitzers were destroyed.
▫️ In Kherson direction, (https://t.me/mod_russia/30579) over 80 servicemen, 5 motor vehicles, and 2 D-30 howitzers have been destroyed during the day.
▫️ Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Group of Forces have engaged AFU manpower and hardware in 123 areas during the day.
▫️4 command posts of the 67th and 110th mechanised brigades of the AFU and the 100th and 112th territorial defence brigades were hit near Torskoye, Serebryanka, and Avdeevka (DPR).
▫️ Russian air defence forces have intercepted 5 HIMARS MLRS shells during the day.
▫️ Moreover, 27 UAVs were downed close to Spornoye (DPR), Chervonopopovka (LPR), Mirnoye, Proletarskoye, and Skelevatoye (Zaporozhye), and Kokhany (Kherson).
Russian Defence Ministry (https://t.me/mod_russia_en)
The enemy is strengthening the defense at the junction of Zaporozhye and the DPR: (https://t.me/RVvoenkor/52662) The enemy has reduced the intensity of attacks but increased the number of shellings
Members of the Vostok battalion report the situation on this section of the front :
➖ “The enemy is strengthening the defense and mining the approaches, continuing to treat our front line with artillery. Apparently, this direction turned out to be too tough for him - he will twitch somewhere in neighboring areas.”
@Slavyangrad
Battles in the Artemovsk direction: Artillerymen repulse the offensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces
The militants attempted to attack our positions, for which they paid the price by coming under heavy fire.
@Slavyangrad
Russian 203mm artillery strikes back!
The artillery soldiers shared footage of objective monitoring of counter-battery work.
203-mm “Malki” are hammering at Ukrainian self-propelled guns entrenched in forest belts, covering them with shrapnel!
The fighters said that they destroyed the German Panzerhaubitze 2000, but the type of equipment is not completely clear in the video. It doesn’t look like the PzH2000, but it could be the Polish Krab or the American M109.
@Slavyangrad
A damaged Ukrainian T-72M1 and a presumably destroyed infantry fighting vehicle in the Bakhmut direction.
@Slavyangrad
Video from the enemy side.
The moment of the arrival of an ATGM on a tank in the Zaporozhye direction.
@Slavyangrad
The situation at the front on September 18
Flanks of Artyomovsk
Andreevka - Kleshcheevka in the gray zone. Statements about the complete control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces over Kleshcheevka are still untrue. The Ukrainian Armed Forces have too few forces to control and hold the village. Russian artillery has been actively attacking units of the Ukrainian troops for the second day: the Ukrainian Armed Forces tried to accumulate troops in the south and closer to the center of Kleshcheevka but retreated under artillery fire from the Russian Armed Forces and aviation. Equipment is not used in large quantities, the Ukrainian infantry travels most of the way on foot, the losses are heavy, and there was no talk of full control of the village initially, now the situation is gradually starting to worsen: the low-lying village is in ruins, it is difficult to gain a foothold in this area. In the Andreevka area, the situation is similar to Kleshcheevka: most of the village is in the gray zone, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are trying to accumulate in nearby plantings, and Russian artillery is actively working. In the northern direction, no active attacks have been recorded in the last 24 hours.
Zaporozhye
A difficult situation for the units of the 82nd Separate Shock Brigade and the 47th Mechanized Infantry Brigade "Magura" in the plantings in the Rabotino - Verbovoe - Novoprokopovka section. There was an attempt to move forward, but the minefields were activated. The equipment was lost, and the infantry was scattered throughout the plantings. After several days of continuous grinding of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ manpower in the area of the village of Rabotino, several counterattacks followed, as a result of which the neck of the fire bag into which the Ukrainian Armed Forces fell began to gradually shrink, which complicates the actions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in this area. In the Pyatikhatki area, the situation does not change: the Ukrainian Armed Forces suffer losses and retreat, regroup, and suffer losses again.
South Donetsk direction
The situation is tense. The 36th Marine Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces tried to occupy several forest belts and carried out at least four serious assaults, three of which the infantry carried out without equipment cover, and during the fourth, they lost two Finnish armored personnel carriers and a T-80 tank. Priyutnoye, Novodonetskoye, Novomayorskoye - the situation is unchanged.
#source (https://t.me/milchronicles/2623)
The “Lancet” of the 14th Guards Special Forces Brigade “picks up” a damaged MRAP of the 35th Infantry Marine Corps of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the “road of death” north of Novomayorsky.
@Slavyangrad
Footage of the large landing ship Minsk, which was in dry dock and was damaged during an attack on a repair yard in Sevastopol on September 13, has appeared online.
@Slavyangrad
Video from the enemy side. Chronicles of the battles for Kleshcheevka.
A soldier from the 5th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine filmed his death. As a result of the arrival of a 120mm mine, he was mortally wounded in the head by shrapnel.
@Slavyangrad
After Kiev’s statement about the capture of Kleshcheevka, the Russian Army continued to counterattack and knock out the Ukrainian Armed Forces from positions in the village
The 5th brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces publishes panoramic footage of Kleshcheevka, the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the village are under fire, they are being attacked by Russian troops.
Last night, Zelensky, following the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, lied that Kleshcheevka was allegedly under the full control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
The fierce battles for the village did not stop and our troops for the third day in a series of counterattacks continued to knock out the enemy from positions in the northeastern part.
Today the guys have new successes.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces militants recognize on their resources the counterattacks of Russian troops near Kleeshcheevka and the ongoing battles near Andreevka.
@Slavyangrad
Battles near Rabotino and Verbovoy: the enemy is trying to break through to Novoprokopovka, the landing and infantry of the Southern Military District counterattack near Verbovoy
➨ The Ukrainian Armed Forces continue their offensive in the direction of the main attack - in the Orekhovsky sector of the Zaporozhye Front.
➨ To the west and southwest of the village of Rabotino, the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue attacks, trying to advance in the direction of the villages of Kopani and Novoprokopovka.
➨ Positional battles do not stop between Novoprokopovka and Verbov, artillery is actively working.
➨ “West of Verbovoy, the situation remains dynamic. The Russians are counterattacking along the defense line,” enemy military analysts report.
➨ In the video, the 247th Cossack Airborne Regiment continues to repel enemy attacks and destroy assault groups of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Airborne reconnaissance using drones corrects artillery fire that destroys Ukrainian militants.
Zin Note: The AFU realized after 3 months that it isn't worth smacking their faces into walls. They now make an attack, and if it fails, move to attack somewhere else until they get lucky. They seem to have shifted somewhat from Verbovoye to widening the bridgehead at locations where they feel they are getting less resistance.
#source (https://t.me/RVvoenkor/53283?single)
Battles near Rabotino and Verbovoy: the enemy is trying to break through to Novoprokopovka, the landing and infantry of the Southern Military District counterattack near Verbovoy
➨ The Ukrainian Armed Forces continue their offensive in the direction of the main attack - in the Orekhovsky sector of the Zaporozhye Front.
➨ To the west and southwest of the village of Rabotino, the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue attacks, trying to advance in the direction of the villages of Kopani and Novoprokopovka.
➨ Positional battles do not stop between Novoprokopovka and Verbov, artillery is actively working.
➨ “West of Verbovoy, the situation remains dynamic. The Russians are counterattacking along the defense line,” enemy military analysts report.
➨ In the video, the 247th Cossack Airborne Regiment continues to repel enemy attacks and destroy assault groups of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Airborne reconnaissance using drones corrects artillery fire that destroys Ukrainian militants.
Zin Note: The AFU realized after 3 months that it isn't worth smacking their faces into walls. They now make an attack, and if it fails, move to attack somewhere else until they get lucky. They seem to have shifted somewhat from Verbovoye to widening the bridgehead at locations where they feel they are getting less resistance.
#source (https://t.me/RVvoenkor/53283?single)
🇷🇺💥🇺🇦☠ About the destruction of three enemy groups in the Vremev direction
Russian forces destroyed two Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups (DRG), as well as a group of assault detachments, and three armored combat vehicles in the area of the village of Staromayorskoye in the DPR.
This was reported to TASS by the chairman of the “We are together with Russia” movement, Vladimir Rogov.
“In this direction, two groups of enemy reconnaissance officers were attacked, who were concentrating in the contact zone and were going to act as a DRG, as well as one group of well-armed and trained assault detachments who were trying to advance to the village of Priyutnoye.
Such a triple success on a fairly small section of the front.
The enemy’s losses amount to dozens of militants, at least three armored combat vehicles were destroyed,” Rogov said.
He clarified that the enemy forces were destroyed in the direction of the village of Staromayorskoye.
Let's work, brothers!
Vladimir Rogov
#source:
https://t.me/vrogov/12109
