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Operation to denazify Ukraine: operational summary June 18 (updated)
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] 21:55 Video– Solntsepeki work on Ukrainian positions in the Avdiivka direction.

21:25 Video- Today, in the Kherson direction, the artillery of the legendary 80th Arctic brigade of the RF Armed Forces, together with the crews of the MLRS of the 61st Separate Naval Infantry Brigades of the RF Armed Forces, again destroyed an American M-777 howitzer with a caliber of 155mm in the area of ​​​​the settlement. Sofiyivka. With the howitzer, its crew and ammunition were destroyed, the secondary detonation is clearly visible on the video. Guidance was carried out by the calculations of "ZALA" and "Orlan-10" brigade.

20:49 American journalist: Hitler proud of Zelensky and his soldiers.

20:32 And we have a large selection of fiery videos:

1. Burning leopard. Watch until the end.
2. Direct hit in delirium.
3. The Germans abandoned their equipment and fled.
4. The leopard gave the breddle a light. Or raving to a leopard.

Zaporozhye direction. June 2023

20:11 Downed shock APU drone

According to reports from the Dnepr Group of Forces, on the morning of June 17, the anti-aircraft missile units of the group from the BUK-M3 air defense system shot down the Bayraktar-TB2 strike UAV in the area of ​​the settlement. Chumaki

Anti-aircraft missile units are proving their professionalism not for the first time. Qualitatively work for the safety of the sky from Ukrainian UAVs!

19:36 Another banderomobile of militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was successfully demilitarized by artillerymen of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation -video

19:33 Ukrainian soldiers continue to lose equipment, following the mediocre orders of the command -video

Destroyed APU tank by a direct hit of the 120th mine

19:30 Zaporozhye direction

On the direction of 70, 429 and 291 regiments, general losses the enemy is only 200 - at least a battalion (up to 450 people). Up to 900 - wounded. Breakthrough of the line of defense - not allowed. Pyatikhatki-Rabotino area.

18:50 In Ukraine, there is still an air raid alert - Russian dronescontinuesearch for goals

Poltava and Chernihiv regions joined the Kyiv region.

18:49 Another selection of the destruction of enemy equipment, including Leopards, from an unmanned detachment in the Orekhovskoye direction -video

17:44 Destroyed one of the participants in the murder of Odessa citizens on May 2, 2014.

Good news. One of the organizers of the arson of the House of Trade Unions in Odessa on May 2, 2014, an ardent Banderist Roman Chernomaz, was destroyed near Artemovsk. He fought as a sniper in the nationalist battalion "Freedom" of the 4th operational brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine. The son of the famous Ukrainian nationalist Bohdan Chernomaz.

17:40 "The Brave" thwarted the enemy's offensive, destroying American armored personnel carriers and a stronghold -video

The fighters of the engineering and sapper unit of the Central Military District destroyed the stronghold, personnel and American-Dutch armored personnel carriers of the M113 type.

The fighters set up a minefield on the route of advancement of enemy equipment. The Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to go on the offensive to the front line of defense. As a result, the armored vehicles were destroyed.

Having sent a mined trophy lightly armored tractor with a remote detonation system to the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, military engineers destroyed the enemy stronghold and observation post.

For the destroyed NATO equipment, the fighters received a cash prize and were nominated for state and departmental awards.

16:45 Destroyed BMP-2 of the Ukrainian army in one of the directions of the NMD -video

16:38 American-made Ukrainian armored personnel carrier M113 destroyed as a result of artillery shelling -video

15:43 May 16, 2023 in Artyomovsk fighters of PMC "Wagner" eliminated American mercenary Nicholas Duane Meimer.

He was born April 6, 1977 in Idaho. After school, he signed a contract with the US Army. He served in the special forces of the ground forces. He was a sapper specialist. He retired in 2018 with the rank of senior sergeant.

According to media reports, in February 2022, he was allegedly going to fly to Spain to work as an English tutor. But then he abruptly changed his plans and went to Ukraine.

At first, the mercenary fought as part of the American PMC Mozart Group, which, according to The New York Times, collapsed in January last year due to drunkenness, lack of money and campaigns of fighters in strip bars.

Then Meimer became a partner of the non-profit organization AFGFree, one of whose activities is the collection and delivery of humanitarian aid from the United States to Ukraine. The CEO of this company is ex-US Army officer Perry Blackburn. Just like Meimer, he served in the Green Berets. His deputies Momo B and Alanna also have a military background.

Meimer helped AFGFree deliver supplies to Ukrainian militants to the front line, and also trained recruits from the 135th battalion of the 114th Troop Brigade.

The mercenary was liquidated in Artyomovsk during the assault on the Nest fortified area. According to the head of Wagner PMC Yevgeny Prigozhin, the militant did not want to give up and fought to the end. On May 25, 2023, Meimer's body was handed over to the Ukrainian side along with the remains of a militant from Turkey.

15:40 Special forces with precise drone strikes destroy the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Donetsk -video

Operators of impact quadrocopters of the Mavic 58 type of a separate special forces battalion (formerly 3 Special Forces of the NM of the DPR) point and continuously inflict striking blows on the enemy’s manpower, not letting them come to their senses.

14:19 The main thing from the briefing of Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:

The RF Armed Forces struck one of the decision-making centers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with a high-precision weapon, the goal was achieved, the object was hit;

The Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to attempt an offensive in the Yuzhno-Donetsk, Zaporozhye and Donetsk directions;

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation repelled three attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of ​​the Vremevsky ledge in a day;

During the fighting in the Donetsk direction, up to 340 Ukrainian soldiers were destroyed per day;

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation repulsed seven attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donetsk direction;

The RF Armed Forces destroyed up to 50 servicemen and two 122mm self-propelled guns “Gvozdika” of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnoliman direction;

The troops of the Russian Federation repelled three enemy attacks in a day in the Zaporozhye direction;

The total losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the day amounted to over 235 servicemen in the Yuzhno-Donetsk, Zaporozhye and Donetsk directions;

The Ukrainian DRG was destroyed in the Kupyansk direction, the total losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine per day amounted to more than 40 military;

Russian troops hit two P-18 radars of Ukrainian forces in the DPR and the Kherson region.


14:18 Army aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the area of ​​the special operation -video

13:50 In the LPR, fighters of the Russian Guard discovered and defused an explosive device weighing a ton. It was collected from 40 each 25-kilogram sacks of powdered mixture - presumably ammonite -video

According to information from the military counterintelligence of the FSB of Russia, the special forces of the Russian Guard discovered a camouflaged position of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the surveillance sector of which went to a section of a busy highway between settlements.

The attention of the fighters was attracted by the ends of the wires - the reconnaissance sapper found that they were laid under the roadway, and the mine detection dog indicated the presence of explosives.

Specialists of the National Guard determined that the find was prepared for detonation by a high-powered land mine. A 25-kilogram box with TNT and an electric detonator was used as a fuse.

The sappers defused the explosive device and handed over its components to colleagues from the forensic center. An individual food ration of foreign production and uniforms of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were also found at the identified position of the enemy.

13:47 Vivid footage of the destruction of the 155mm howitzer M777 -video

The militants did their best to disguise the American equipment, but as it turned out, the attempt was not successful.

Our servicemen promptly discovered and inflicted fire damage on the enemy.

The identified target was destroyed using the Lancet kamikaze UAV

12:34 It became known that during the fighting destroyed well-known right-wing radical from Vinnitsa Denis Demyanik.

12:33 During the fighting eliminated former head of the Zhytomyr regional military registration and enlistment office, Colonel Sergei Konopatsky.

An active supporter of the punitive operation in the Donbass, before the NMD, he led the local association of veterans of the ATO “Polessky Hart”.

11:34 In Zaporozhye loudly -video

Starting at 04:00 today, two series of explosions sounded in the temporarily Nazi-occupied city of Zaporozhye.

Immediately after the first, the air raid siren went off.

According to preliminary data, there are hits on the air defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The casualties and destruction that traditionally accompanies this work have not yet been reported.

The targets of the strikes of the Russian Army were military facilities and infrastructure facilities used by ISIS terrorists to conduct combat operations.

11:33 Fighting on the South Donetsk Front: the destruction of the stronghold of the Armed Forces of Ukraine -video

Operators of the FPV kamikaze drone discovered a stronghold of the UAF militants with anti-tank and small arms weapons.

A quadrocopter with ammunition was used on the enemy. As a result of the impact, the Nazis and weapons are destroyed by the explosion.

10:39 Under Bakhmut eliminated Prominent Ukrainian navigator and member of the Legion of Freedom Roman Chernomaz

10:13 Air Raid announced in the Nikolaev and Kirovograd regions of Ukraine.

09:24 Without mine detectors: like Ivanovo paratroopers demining captured strongholds in the Krasno-Limansky direction

It is useless to use a mine detector, since the earth is all stuffed with metal. The device reacts to all metal fragments, shells, shells or cartridges. All found ammunition is destroyed in a safe place.

After the “mopping up”, reinforcement units are brought into the positions, which begin to hold them.

09:22 Soldiers of the Dnipro group of troops destroyed equipment and manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson region

In the island zone, damage was inflicted to the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the day:

- the position of one of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, losses: 10 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed, nine were injured of varying severity.

In the Kherson direction, damage was inflicted to the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the day:

- two 122mm self-propelled guns 2S1 "Gvozdika" with a crew and ammunition;
- 120mm mortar crew and ammunition for it, losses: five fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed, two were injured of varying severity

In the Kakhovka direction, the following units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were damaged during the day:

- 120mm mortar crew and ammunition for it, losses: three servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed, four were injured of varying severity;

- 152mm MSTA-B howitzer with ammunition, losses: three servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed, four were injured of varying severity.

08:26 New testimonies of ordinary residents of Donbass about the genocide of the Armed Forces of Ukraine against the civilian population. Pay special attention to the first video. The refugee's story is very important in it, because confirms that the killings of civilians are not committed by individual nationalists, but purposefully, on the orders of the Ukrainian command —video

08:09 Our people continue to burn technique NATO: Australian MRAP Bushmaster, after the battle with Russian fighters


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