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Russian Perspective: Operation to denazify Ukraine: operational summary August 18 (updated)
2023-08-19
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] 21:11 In an hour and a half, Ukrainian troops fired 12 rounds of 155mm caliber in Donetsk and three rounds of 152mm caliber in Gorlivka, the representation DPR at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC).

“Fire was recorded from the side of the VFU (armed formations of Ukraine - ed.) in the direction:
19:05 - the settlement of Dzerzhinsk - the settlement of Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district): three rounds with a caliber of 152 mm were fired;
19:15 - Maksimilyanovka settlement - Donetsk city (Petrovsky district): 3 shells with a caliber of 155 millimeters were fired; 19:20 - the settlement of Novoselovka Pervaya - the city of Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district):three rounds with a caliber of 155mm were fired;
19:20 - the settlement of Galitsinovka - the city of Donetsk (Kirov district): three rounds of 155mm caliber were fired;
20:00 - Galitsinovka settlement - Donetsk city (Kirovskiy district): three rounds of 155mm caliber were fired," the representative office said in a statement.

20:40 The air defense system worked in the Belgorod region, an aircraft-type UAV was shot down, preliminary, there is no information about the victims and destruction, said governor Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkov.

“Our air defense system worked over the Belgorod region - an aircraft-type UAV was shot down. Operational services are clarifying information about the consequences on the ground,” he wrote in his Telegram channel.

He clarified that, according to preliminary data, there is no information about the victims and destruction.

19:47 Artillery of the RF Armed Forces destroys positions of Ukrainian militants in the Lisichansk direction

18:50 Cluster munition strikes are inflicted on Donetsk daily, contrary to the Pentagon's statements about the use of cluster shells by the Ukrainian Armed Forces allegedly "exclusively" against military targets, Jan Gagin, adviser to the acting head of the DPR, told RIA Novosti.

“Strikes with the help of cluster munitions are inflicted on the Donetsk agglomeration at least regularly, every day. These shells explode regularly just above the capital of the republic. The Kievsky district, Voroshilovsky, practically all the areas that artillery can reach them suffer a lot ...

All these facts were recorded by the Investigative Committee, and not just described, but described with photo tables, the wounded. So the Pentagon is wrong, and I think that someday this will be heard at a military tribunal, ”said Gagin.

17:48 Acting Governor of the Kherson region Sal'do signed the law "On the ban on the use of unmanned aerial vehicles" in order to strengthen the protection of public order and ensure public safety

17:48 The first militants from the 82nd Airborne Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine taken prisoner in Zaporozhye region

16:06 At least seven civilians were killed, 33 were injured, including two children, from August 11 to 17 in the DPR due to the actions of Ukrainian troops, the office of the Ombudsman of the Republic Daria Morozova reports onsite.

In a post published in Telegram channeldepartments, an infographic is provided, according to which seven people died in the republic from August 11 to 17. The number of victims during this period was 33, including two children.

It is also noted that during the entire period of armed aggression by Ukraine in the DPR, 9,014 people were killed, including 229 children. The number of injured civilians due to the actions of Ukrainian troops for the entire time amounted to 12,589, including 803 children.

16:05 A civilian was injured as a result of the shelling of Makiivka by Ukrainian troops, said the mayor of the city Vladislav Klyucharov inTelegram channel.

“Chervonogvardeisky district of the city of Makeyevka today came under fire from the Ukrainian Armed Forces (Armed Forces of Ukraine - ed.) ... In the village of Lesnoy, in the courtyard of a private house, a man born in 1952 was injured. He was taken to a medical institution in a serious condition, ”the mayor writes.

15:00 New briefing by the Russian Defense Ministry:

🔹The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost up to 220 servicemen killed and wounded in the Donetsk direction.

🔹The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation repulsed three attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donetsk direction in a day.

🔹Air defense systems of the Russian Federation over the past day shot down a Ukrainian Su-25 aircraft.

🔹The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kupyansk direction per day amounted to 75 servicemen.

🔹The Russian Armed Forces repelled an attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the settlement of Nikol'skoye in the DPR.

🔹The RF Armed Forces successfully repulsed seven enemy attacks and counterattacks in the Kupyanka direction, and an ammunition depot in the Kamenki area was destroyed.

🔹The RF Armed Forces repulsed two attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnolimansky direction, and destroyed up to 80 enemy servicemen.

🔹The RF Armed Forces destroyed a counterbattery station of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and up to 30 enemy fighters in the Kherson direction.

🔹The Russian Armed Forces destroyed three points of ammunition supply for units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the DPR.

🔹The RF Armed Forces destroyed up to 210 Ukrainian servicemen in the South-Donetsk direction in a day.

🔹The air defense of the Russian Federation over the past day shot down 26 drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

🔹The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the day amounted to 195 servicemen in the Zaporozhye direction.

🔹The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation repelled two attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of ​​​​the settlement of Rabotino and stopped the activities of the Ukrainian DRG in the Zaporozhye direction.

🔹Russian aviation shot down a Ukrainian Su-25 attack aircraft near Verolyubovka in the DPR.


13:50 Ukrainian troops at 13.35 fired three cluster shells 155mm from “NATO” artillery in the Kievsky district of Donetsk – DPR representative office in the JCCC

12:56 Explosions thundered in the Kyiv-controlled city of Zaporozhye amid an air raid. This was reported by the Ukrainian TV channel 5.ua.

12:55 Air raid alert announced in Sumy, Poltava, Khar'kov and Dnepropetrovsk regions of Ukraine, data show online maps Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation.

11:52 Calculations "Tornado-G" support offensive of Russian troops in the Kupyansk direction

11:51 Ukrainian troops fired at the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, Gorlovka, as well as the villages of Gol'movsky and Zaytsevo, firing a total of 24 rounds of 155mm and 152mm calibers, reported in Telegram channel representation of the DPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC).

“Fire was recorded from the armed formations of Ukraine in the direction:
11.00 (coincides with Moscow time - ed.) - the settlement of Dzerzhinsk - the settlement of Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district): five rounds with a caliber of 152mm were fired ...
10.40 - the settlement of Dzerzhinsk - the settlement of Gorlovka ( Nikitovsky district): four rounds with a caliber of 152mm were fired,” the representative office said in a statement.

10:39 Russian army mastered two strongholds and three observation posts in the Kupyansk direction

10:39 The village of Petrov Guta, Bryansk region, came under fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as a result of which three houses were damaged. Governor Alexander Bogomaz announced this on his Telegram channel.

There were no casualties. As a result of the shelling, there are partial destructions of three residential buildings.

10:38 Over the past day, the Ukrainian military fired on seven border regions of the Belgorod region, almost 100 rounds were fired, two Ukrainian drones were also shot down, the governor of the region Vyacheslav Gladkov said in Telegram channel.

09:37 Soldiers of the Russian Army lay fire on the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the retreat -video.

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