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Current information on the situation on the front line: December 18 (updated)
2024-12-19
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFront] 19:11 The settlement of Novy Komar in the DPR is completely released by the Russian army. The Ukrainian Armed Forces group in the area of Velyka Novosyolka has become one step closer to operational encirclement.

18:10 Destroyed Ukrainian T-64BV tank near the village of Olgovka in the Kursk region –photo.

17:59 Zaporizhia Oblast Governor Balitsky reported that the enemy attempted to attack Berdyansk and Tokmak with four Storm Shadow missiles. All missiles were shot down, there were no casualties or damage.

17:49 Explosions in Khar'kov and Sumy regions.

17:30 Explosions in Sumy Oblast. Russian Aerospace Forces are using FABs on Ukrainian Armed Forces positions.

17:12 Liberation of Uspenovka.

The servicemen of the 20th Motorized Rifle Division of the 8th Guards Army of the Russian Armed Forces are fully cleared out and liberated Uspenovka from the criminal Kyiv regime. Now the fighters can calmly demonstrate the waving flags of Russia on the main streets of the village, which symbolizes the restoration of control over this region and the further advance of the assault forces of the Russian Army.

16:55 Air defense is repelling a missile attack on Rostov Oblast, Acting Governor Slyusar reported. Three of four missiles were shot down in the Kamensk area, one hit an outbuilding. There are no preliminary casualties.

16:08 FPV drone of the Russian Armed Forces destroyed a combat armored vehicle of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Khar'kov region.

16:02 In Toretsk on November 15, 2024, British mercenary Hayden William Davis was liquidated. Born December 9, 1994 –photo.

15:56 Around 14:00 Moscow time, an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack using an aircraft-type UAV against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation was thwarted.

A Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle was destroyed over the territory of the Belgorod region by air defense systems on duty.

15:25 Explosions in Krivoy Rog.

15:17 Enemy reports: "The northwestern and southern parts of Zelenovka are under the Russian Armed Forces' control. It is difficult to organize a defense in the village. It is almost impossible to dig trenches."

14:25 In the Pokrovsky direction, the Russian Armed Forces are taking the Ukrainian Armed Forces garrison into a “semi-ring” –map.

Russian troops have advanced south of the village of Novoolenovka, thus taking the settlement in a "half-ring" is taking shape. The settlement is located south of Pokrovsk.

14:11 In Tisza drowned another Ukrainian draft dodger. He turned out to be a 39-year-old resident of the Kyiv region. The body was found five meters from the Romanian shore.

14:00 The advance of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region has been stopped, attempts by Ukrainian groups and mercenaries to break through deep into Russia have been thwarted, Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov reported.

He stated that Ukraine lost more than 42,000 soldiers, over 1,800 tanks and armored vehicles in the Kursk border region.

13:54 In the Pokrovsky direction of the Russian Armed Forces released half of Dachenskoye. In addition, the Russian army advanced from Novotroitskoye towards Solenoye.

In the Kurakhovsky direction, north of the reservoir, the Russian Federation forces are advancing west from Sontsovka. Southwest of the reservoir, a serious offensive is underway towards Constantinople; Constantinople has been practically liberated.

Russian troops took Makarovka and the adjacent territory south of Velikaya Novosyolka. In the area of Novy Komar, part of the adjacent territory was liberated.

13:04 Volyn TCC beaten up man, after which an ambulance was called for him because of the beatings. Despite the doctors' comments, the military commissars took him out on a gurney and threw him into their minibus.

12:47 Ukrainians again showed an act of vandalism, defaced with paint the monuments of Vorontsov, Pushkin and Apelsin in Odessa.

12:29 The Russian Armed Forces have liberated Trudovoe and Starye Terny in the DPR, the Defense Ministry reported. Over the past 24 hours, the infrastructure of military airfields, drone assembly workshops, and storage sites have been damaged.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost a Polish Rosomak armored personnel carrier, a British Snatch armored vehicle, and a Canadian Senator armored vehicle.

12:17 Units of the Russian Armed Forces advanced up to 700 meters in two areas in the area of the settlement Lozovaya. Due to high losses, two battalions of the 44th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were withdrawn from the combat zone and a decrease in the activity of the 77th Airmobile Brigade in counterattacks was noted.

12:05 Calculations of the 122mm BM-21 Grad multiple launch rocket systems of the Vostok group of forces daily are hitting positions of Ukrainian nationalists, destroying enemy manpower and military equipment in the SVO zone.

11:11 The Armed Forces of Ukraine are actively preparing Konstantinovka and Druzhkovka for defense after the withdrawal of heavy equipment from Chasov Yar. This was stated by the chief of the operational headquarters of the Melodiya reconnaissance center of the Espanola volunteer brigade of the volunteer corps as part of the South group with the call sign Chukcha.

11:01 The Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked seven districts of the Belgorod Region with 64 munitions and 18 drones over the past 24 hours. The largest number — 26 munitions — were fired at the Volokonovsky District, Gladkov said.

10:54 Crimean paratroopers' UAV operators have discovered a US-made Abrams tank. With a precise strike from an FPV drone, the operator - a platoon commander with the call sign "Chekhov" - hit and immobilized the Ukrainian Armed Forces tank, and with a second hit from his subordinates, the armored vehicle was destroyed -video.

10:41 Enemy reports: "in the Vrem'yevsk direction, the Russian Armed Forces are pushing through the flanks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of Velyka Novosyolka and may take them in the near future, encircling the city.

In Novy Komar, north of Velyka Novosyolka, there is a battle, and to the south (in the area of Blagovatnoye), Russian troops are advancing. In the near future, the Russian Armed Forces may take full control of the flanks around the city, and then everything will be as usual, as we have seen before, not a very encouraging prospect."

10:17 A car with police officers came under artillery fire in Gorlovka, one of them died

Andrey Stroyev, an employee of the Nikitovsky District Service Department, was driving the car that the police used to arrive at the scene. Shrapnel from a Ukrainian shell pierced the car, Stroyev was fatally wounded, his colleagues were not hurt.

10:12 Russian naval infantry arranged an ambush of Ukrainian military in the Kursk region, the enemy lost three NATO-made armored vehicles, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

09:34 The criminal Kiev regime continues to shell the civilian infrastructure of populated areas on the left bank of the Kherson region. Yesterday, during the day, the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired from barrel artillery:

– Five rounds in the village of Golaya Pristan;

– Four rounds to the settlement of Velikiye Kopani;

– Four rounds in the village of Malokakhovka;

– Six rounds in the village of Novaya Kakhovka;

– Three rounds in the village of Sagi;

- Five rounds to the village of Aleshki.

During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the settlements of Dnepryany, Aleshky, Kardashynka, Korsunka, and Golaya Prystan, firing a total of 24 rounds from cannon artillery. Civilian casualties and infrastructure destruction are being clarified.

09:10 The Russian Armed Forces have liberated three square kilometers near Zelenovka in the Kurakhovsky direction, Vladimir Rogov reported.

09:04 Today at 05:20 am, passenger bus route #25 in Gorlovka DPR was attacked by a UAF drone, there were no casualties. This was reported by the city's mayor, Ivan Prikhodko.

08:49 The DPR representative office in the JCCC recorded seven cases of fire from the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Gorlovka direction in 24 hours, 19 rounds of ammunition were fired. There were no reports of civilian casualties. No damage to residential buildings or civilian infrastructure facilities was recorded.

08:31 Russian forces have improved their tactical position near the village of Lozovaya in the Khar'kov region, partially forming a “fire bag” for Ukrainian Armed Forces units, military expert Marochko reported.

08:24 The Russian Armed Forces crossed the Mokrye Yaly River during the battle for the village of Storozhevoe to the south of Velikaya Novosyolka in the DPR, Vladimir Rogov reported.

08:15 The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost most of their forces while trying to break out of the pincer movement in Uspenovka south of Kurakhovo, the security forces reported.

08:12 Crimean paratroopers destroyed an American Abrams tank in the Novoivanovka area of the Kursk region, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

08:10 Crews of 152mm 2S19 self-propelled howitzers "Msta-S" of the "West" group of forces destroyed camouflaged guns, machine gun emplacements and Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel. Fire adjustment and target engagement control were performed by UAV crews.

08:08 The Russian Armed Forces have liberated three settlements. The channel "Whisper of the Front" reported that the Russian army has occupied Makarovka in the Veliko-Novoselovsky direction, as well as Konstantinopolskoye and Uspenovka near Kurakhovo.

08:05 Armed Forces of Ukraine killed civilians in Kurakhovo in the DPR, using FPV drones and mortars against them, a refugee reported.

08:03 Air defense systems destroyed two Ukrainian UAVs over the Belgorod region and one over the Bryansk and Kursk regions at night, the Defense Ministry reported.

08:01 Russian troops have cleared the "Yuzhnokurakhov cauldron", Vladimir Rogov said. At the same time, according to him, those who refused to surrender were liquidated.

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