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[Korrespondent] Ukrainian Armed Forces repel Russian assaults.
Aviation, missile forces and artillery of the Defense Forces hit seven areas of concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment, as well as Russian air defense systems.
There were 167 combat clashes on the front in 24 hours. In the Pokrovsk direction, Ukrainian defenders repelled 54 enemy assaults. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on May 18.
Aviation, missile forces and artillery of the Defense Forces hit seven areas of concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment and one air defense system of the Russians.
It is noted that yesterday the Russians carried out 75 airstrikes on the positions of the Defense Forces and populated areas of Ukraine and dropped 106 guided aerial bombs.
In addition, the enemy deployed 2,960 kamikaze drones and carried out 4,735 attacks, including 122 from multiple launch rocket systems.
The Russian army carried out airstrikes on the areas of the settlements of Bunyakine in Sumy Oblast, Kupyansk in Kharkiv Oblast, Berezove in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Kurtovka, Konstantinovka, Belitskoye, Yablunovka, Novopol in Donetsk Oblast, Novodarovka, Temirovka, Gulyaipole, Kamenskoye in Zaporizhia Oblast, and Nikolaevka in Kherson Oblast.
In the Kharkov direction, the enemy attacked three times in the area of Vovchansk and in the direction of Stroyevka.
One attack by the Russian army took place in the Kupyansk direction. The defense forces repelled an enemy assault near Zagrizovoye.
In the Liman direction, the enemy attacked 24 times, trying to advance near the settlements of Novoegorovka, Lozovaya, Ridkodub, Grekovka, Katerinovka, Yampolivka and Zelenaya Dolina.
In the Seversky direction, in the areas of Belogorovka and Verkhnekamyansky, the Russians attacked the positions of Ukrainian troops 10 times.
In the Kramatorsk direction, eight offensive actions of the Russian army were recorded near Chasovy Yar, Kurdyumovka and in the direction of Predtechnoye, Stupochki and Belaya Gora.
In the Toretsk direction, the enemy carried out 14 attacks in the areas of Toretsk, Ozaryanovka, Dilievka and Druzhba.
In the Pokrovsk direction, Ukrainian defenders stopped 54 assault and offensive actions of the Russian army in the areas of the settlements of Staraya Nikolaevka, Yablunovka, Vozdvizhenka, Novaya Poltavka, Mirolyubovka, Elizavetovka, Promen, Novosergeevka, Troitskoye and Andreevka.
In the Novopavlovsk direction, the enemy attacked the positions of the Defense Forces 23 times near Constantinople, Bogatyr, Volnoye Pole, Ravnopol, Novopol, Zeleny Pole and in the direction of Komar.
In the Orekhov direction, Ukrainian defenders repelled seven enemy assaults in the areas of Shcherbaki, Stepovoye and Malye Shcherbaki.
In the Dnieper direction the enemy carried out two offensive actions, without success.
There were 14 combat clashes in the Kursk direction. The enemy carried out 15 airstrikes, dropped 20 guided bombs, and carried out 224 artillery attacks, including three from multiple launch rocket systems. No active offensive actions by the Russian army were recorded in the Gulyai-Polye direction.
In the Volyn and Polesie directions, no signs of the formation of offensive enemy groups were detected.
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[Korrespondent] There have already been 130 clashes on the front since the beginning of the day.
The Russians carried out 54 airstrikes, dropped 80 KABs, attacked with kamikaze drones and shelled Ukrainian troop positions and populated areas more than 3,600 times.
Since the beginning of the day, 130 combat clashes have occurred on the front. Ukrainian defenders continue to resolutely repel the enemy's attempts to advance deep into our territory, inflicting fire damage on them. This was noted in the General Staff's report on Sunday, May 18.
In total, Russian troops carried out 54 air strikes, dropping 80 KABs. They also used 1,098 kamikaze drones to destroy the positions of our troops and populated areas, and carried out almost 3,700 attacks.
The enemy attacked four times in the Kharkov direction, in the Vovchansk area, and also carried out air strikes in the areas of the settlements of Kolodeznoye and Kamenka.
In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy made two attempts to attack in the direction of Novaya Kruglyakovka and was rebuffed.
In the Liman direction, the Defense Forces repelled 19 assaults on positions near the settlements of Tverdokhlebovo, Kopanki, Ridkodub, Grekovka, Torskoye and in the direction of Karpovka, Olgovka, Zelenaya Dolina and Grigoryevka. Two more clashes are ongoing.
In the Seversky direction, the enemy attacked six times near Belogorovka and Verkhnekamyansky, one combat clash remains unfinished.
Since the beginning of the day, the enemy has attacked in the areas of Chasovy Yar, Belaya Gora, Kurdyumovka and Stupochki in the Kramatorsk direction. Ukrainian units have repelled six attacks.
Six combat clashes took place in the Toretsk direction today. The enemy tried to storm the positions of Ukrainian units in the areas of Toretsk, Petrovka, Ozaryanovka, Dilievka and Druzhba, two combat clashes are currently ongoing.
In the Pokrovsk direction, since the beginning of this day, the enemy has attacked 44 times in the areas of the settlements Malinovka, Mirolyubovka, Elizavetovka, Lisovka, Dachenskoye, Zvirovoye, Novosergeevka, Udachnoye, Troitskoye, Alekseyevka, Andreyevka, Kotlinoe and in the directions of Zori, Shevchenko Pervy, Popovy Yar. Our defenders have repelled 40 assaults, four more clashes are still ongoing. Popov Yar, Shevchenko Pervy, Sukhoi Yar, Novoukrainka, Zaporozhye and Pokrovsk received airstrikes.
In this direction, according to preliminary data, 151 occupiers have been neutralized, 84 of whom have been irrevocably destroyed. In addition, Ukrainian soldiers destroyed four vehicles, a satellite communications system, eight shelters, 10 motorcycles, a mortar, and five UAVs.
In the Novopavlovsk direction, Ukrainian defenders repelled 22 attacks by invaders in the areas of Konstantinopol, Bogatyr, Shevchenko, Volnoye Pole, Ravnopol, seven clashes are still ongoing. Novodarovka and Burlatskoye were hit by airstrikes.
The enemy did not conduct offensive operations in the Gulyai-Polye direction, but launched an airstrike on Gulyai-Polye.
In the Orekhov direction, Ukrainian defenders repelled one enemy attack in the direction of Lukyanivske. Novoandreyevka came under air strike.
In the Dnieper direction, enemy units tried to advance once, but the attack was repelled. Odradokamyanka came under air strike.
There have been 14 clashes with the Russian invaders in the Kursk direction, one of which is still ongoing. The enemy carried out 18 airstrikes, dropped 32 guided bombs, and carried out 196 artillery attacks.
The General Staff noted the soldiers of the 128th separate mountain assault Transcarpathian brigade, the 406th separate artillery brigade named after General Ensign Oleksiy Almazov, and the 27th Pechersk regiment of the National Guard of Ukraine, who effectively destroy the enemy, inflicting significant losses in manpower and equipment.
Let us recall that over the past 24 hours , the Russian army lost 1,130 soldiers and more than 140 units of weapons and military equipment of the occupiers. The total combat losses of the Russians from 24.02.22 to 18.05.25 amounted to approximately 973,730 people.
As reported, the names of 108,608 Russian soldiers killed during the full-scale invasion of Ukraine have been established, including more than 5,000 officers.
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[NewsFront] 21:46 Night shots works of the Inokhodets UAV on Ukrainian Armed Forces equipment in the area of the settlement of Vorozhba in Sumy Oblast. 20:41 Servicemen of the tank regiment of the 90th Guards Tank Division of the Center group of forces are improving skills in conducting combat at a training ground in the rear area of the SVO zone.
The assault troops train in taking an enemy stronghold while dismounting from an infantry fighting vehicle, firing small arms and grenade launchers, passing through an obstacle course, and overcoming water obstacles.
19:40 Sappers of the 42nd Guards Motorized Rifle Division of the Dnepr group of forces daily discovering and destroying enemy mines in the Orekhov direction of the Zaporizhia region.
18:39 FPV drone operator of the Vostok military group destroyed Stryker armored personnel carrier and disrupted the rotation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the South Donetsk direction.
Scouts discovered a US-made Stryker armored personnel carrier transporting Ukrainian Armed Forces fighters near the village of Komar. The target was hit by an FPV drone with a night camera. The surviving enemy personnel fled, abandoning the wounded and dead.
17:51 Konstantinovskoye direction. Advance of the 20th Motorized Rifle Division to Poltavka –MAP.
17:33 South Donetsk direction. Russian Armed Forces storm Zelenoye Pole and Novopol –MAP.
16:36 Rear paratroopers of the Dnepr group of forces equipped a protected underground complex for restoring the unit's combat capability.
15:40 Night shots works UAV "Inohodets" on the equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the settlement of Vorozhba, Sumy region.
15:11 Around 12:00 Moscow time by air defense systems on duty destroyed Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle of the aircraft type over the territory of the Republic of Crimea.
13:15 Footage of the liberation of the settlement of Bogatyr has been published by the Russian Armed Forces –VIDEO.
12:35 The Russian Armed Forces were able to clear a large “pocket” southwest of Makeyevka, which had been held by Ukrainian occupiers for a long time –MAP.
12:20 From 9.30 to 11.00 Moscow time by air defense systems on duty destroyed three Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type over the territory of the Republic of Crimea.
12:19 Summary of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation as of May 18, 2025
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to conduct a special military operation.
Units of the North group of forces defeated concentrations of manpower and equipment of a tank brigade, two assault regiments of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and three territorial defense brigades in the areas of the settlements of Bessalovka, Ryzhevka, Sadki, Zapselye, Yunakovka and Volfino in the Sumy region.
In the Khar'kov direction, formations of three mechanized and a motorized infantry brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Chugunovka, Otradnoye, Volchansk and Vasilenkovo in the Khar'kov region.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 160 servicemen, two combat armored vehicles, 11 automobiles, four field artillery pieces and an electronic warfare station.
Units of the "West" group of forces improved their tactical position. They defeated formations of two mechanized, mountain assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a territorial defense brigade, a national guard brigade and two border detachments of the border service of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Kolodeznoye, Dvurechanskoye, Novoosinovo, Kutkovka, Peschanoye, Kupyansk in the Khar'kov region, Kirovsk and Yampol in the Donetsk People's Republic.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 240 servicemen, three infantry fighting vehicles, seven cars, a 155mm self-propelled artillery unit AS-90 made in the UK, two electronic warfare stations "Quertus" and "Anklav", as well as three ammunition depots. Units of the "Southern" group of forces occupied more advantageous lines and positions. They inflicted losses on the manpower and equipment of six mechanized, airmobile, motorized infantry and assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the settlements of Seversk, Serebryanka, Belaya Gora, Pleshcheyevka, Zarya, Aleksandro-Kalinovo, Zaliznyanskoye, Kleban-Byk and Konstantinovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The enemy lost up to 200 servicemen, an Italian-made Puma armored personnel carrier, an armored combat vehicle, six cars, three artillery pieces and three electronic warfare stations.
Units of the "Center" group of forces continued to advance into the depths of the enemy's defense. They defeated formations of four mechanized, assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and three brigades of the National Guard in the areas of the settlements of Poltavka, Koptevo, Novoekonomicheskoe, Novosergeevka, Popov Yar, Udachnoye, Ulyanovka, Kotlino, Zverevo, Dimitrov and Krasnoarmeysk of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The enemy's losses amounted to 420 troops, seven armored combat vehicles, including an M113 armored personnel carrier and a US-made HMMWV armored car, two Canadian-made Senator armored personnel carriers, eight pickup trucks, two field artillery guns and an Israeli-made RADA tactical airborne radar system.
As a result of active and decisive actions by units of the "East" military group, the settlement of Bogatyr in the Donetsk People's Republic was liberated.
The manpower and equipment of the mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the territorial defense brigade and the national guard brigade were damaged in the areas of the settlements of Temirovka in the Zaporizhia region, Otradnoye in the Donetsk People's Republic and Berezove in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 175 servicemen, a tank, two armored combat vehicles, seven cars and two field artillery pieces.
Units of the Dnepr group of forces defeated formations of the mechanized, mountain assault brigades, the coastal defense brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Pavlivka, Kamenskoye, Mala Tokmachka, Novodanilovka in the Zaporizhia region, Ponyatovka and Tokarevka in the Kherson region.
More than 50 servicemen, a US-made HMMWV armored fighting vehicle, four vehicles, a US-made M777 155mm howitzer, an electronic warfare station and an ammunition depot were destroyed.
Operational-tactical aviation, strike unmanned aerial vehicles, missile troops and artillery of the groups of troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation inflicted damage on military airfield infrastructure facilities, ammunition and fuel depots, storage sites for unmanned aerial vehicles, radar stations, as well as temporary deployment points of units of Ukrainian armed formations and foreign mercenaries in 139 districts.
Air defense systems shot down seven US-made JDAM guided aerial bombs and 75 aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed:
662 aircraft,
283 helicopters,
57,591 unmanned aerial vehicles,
605 anti-aircraft missile systems,
23,384 tanks and other armored combat vehicles,
1,563 multiple launch rocket system combat vehicles,
25,019 field artillery pieces and mortars,
35,641 units of special military vehicles.
12:08 As a result of active and decisive actions by units of the "East" group of forces released the settlement of Bogatyr in the Donetsk People's Republic.
11:18 A light guided missile (LMUR) strike in Zarechny (Kirovsk) was destroyed UAV control point of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
10:46 Oskol area. The Russian Armed Forces have taken up new positions south of Grekovka –MAP.
10:45 From 8.20 to 9.00 Moscow time by air defense systems on duty destroyed four Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the airplane type over the territory of the Belgorod region.
09:15 From 7.15 to 8.20 Moscow time by air defense systems on duty destroyed 14 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type over the territory of the Belgorod region.
07:33 Changes to map over the past 24 hours:
Advance west of the village of Bogatyr
Liberated np Bogatyr
Russian Armed Forces entered Romanovka
Advance west of Novaya Poltavka
Russian Armed Forces storm Dyleevka railway station
New Poltavka has been liberated
Russian Armed Forces entered Romanovka
07:08 During the past night, air defense systems on duty destroyed seven Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles:
Four UAVs – over the territory of the Belgorod region,
Three UAVs – over the territory of the Bryansk region.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rohzin.
[ColonelCassad] CONSEQUENCES OF THE ATTACKS ON TETKINO IN KURSK OBLAST.
The commander of the 1st Battalion of the 47th Separate Mechanized Bbrigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine "Magura" resigned and threw a public tantrum about how bad everything was, and that the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was to blame for everything, which stupidly killed a huge number of people for nothing. In the 4th year of the war, he woke up... The tasks turned out to be idiotic.
THEN BUTUSOV STARTED THE HYSTERIA.
Of course, there will be no adequate reaction there. Otherwise, we will have to admit that not only the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Syrsky are responsible for the PR offensive on Tetkino, but also the cocaine Fuhrer personally, who demanded that the attacks continue even after the offensive had obviously died out in blood. Of course, they didn’t like the videos of our operators working in the Tetkino area.
As a result, the enemy was unable to capture even this unfortunate Tetkino, having lost several dozen armored vehicles (including several valuable engineering vehicles) and several hundred people killed and wounded during the entire attack (drone operators and the Russian Aerospace Forces with their FABs collected a rich bloody harvest in the plantings in the Tetkino area).
P.S. This morning, the enemy tried to change the record and again attacked the village of Novy Put, located right on the border. There he has already been hit in the head 3 or 4 times.
The editor-in-chief of "Censor", Kiev propagandist Yuriy Butusov writes about this. According to him, the battalion commander spoke out against "incompetent decisions of the Ukrainian command in Kursk region".
Butusov writes that in the Tetkino area, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are attacking in columns head-on under attack from Russian drones, which leads to significant losses of equipment and personnel.
"The assigned tasks do not always correspond to the capabilities of the troops, the terrain and basic tactics. Underestimation of the threat from drones by the military command leads to failures in engineering support, protection of equipment and people, gross errors in the management and use of troops," the enemy observer states.
He considers the attack on Tetkino "a political task to conduct military operations on enemy territory," but it is poorly organized and planned. "No one is trying to draw conclusions and learn, but on the contrary, they continue to repeat the same mistakes over and over again, without regard for losses," Butusov said.
Let us recall that the Ukrainian Armed Forces' attacks on Tetkino began on the eve of May 9. At the same time, Ukraine began massive drone raids on Moscow.
At the same time, the Ukrainian Armed Forces were unable to consolidate their position in Tetkino, and attacks by Ukrainian troops are being repelled. Our Telegram channels are posting many videos from near Tetkino with the destruction of Ukrainian equipment.
The publication of the dissatisfied Butusov was commented on by KP.ru special correspondent Alexander Kots:
"The rebellious battalion commander Shirshin, by the way, is known in the independent country as an intellectual and competent commander. I hope the system will chew him up and spit him out. And in the Armed Forces of Ukraine there will remain only people-functions who meekly drive their subordinates to the slaughter."
"On May 2 of this year, Ukrainian militants used an unmanned aerial vehicle to attack a private home in the village of Kukuyevka, where a married couple was doing landscaping work. As a result of the deliberate dropping of an explosive device, a civilian was injured by shrapnel. A criminal case on a terrorist act has been opened on this fact," said Svetlana Petrenko, official representative of the Russian Investigative Committee.
During interrogation, the injured villager told military investigators about the circumstances of the incident.
"I didn't even understand what happened. I felt a blow to my right shoulder, flew up, and fell on my left side," the woman explained.
On May 2, Acting Governor of Kursk Oblast Aleksandr Khinshtein reported that a 47-year-old woman was injured when debris from a Ukrainian drone fell in the village of Kukuyevka in Kursk Oblast. He noted that she was taken to Kursk Oblast Hospital with a bruise, abrasions on her neck and right shoulder.
Earlier, on May 17, investigators opened a criminal case on a terrorist attack after a drone attack by Ukrainian militants on an electrical substation in the city of Rylsk in the Kursk region. According to investigators, on the evening of May 16, Ukrainian Armed Forces troops dropped an explosive device on an electrical substation in Rylsk using a drone, which damaged a transformer and left local residents without power.
Since 2014, the Kiev regime has been killing civilians, including those whom the Ukrainian authorities formally consider their citizens. Since then, more than 6,500 people have died as a result of Ukrainian aggression, and about 16,500 thousand civilians have been injured.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] Tomorrow, Trump and Putin are scheduled to hold talks to discuss direct talks between Russia and Ukraine, as well as the possibility of a ceasefire.
A phone call will be held at Trump's initiative. Trump expects that direct talks (first by phone, then in person) will help end the war on "acceptable terms."
The terms of the ceasefire have been announced - withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from the territory of 4 regions of the Russian Federation. And then 30 days of truce. Ukraine, of course, does not want it.
Judging by the comments of Putin and the Foreign Ministry, the Russian Federation has not deviated one iota from the demands voiced last summer.
The current stage of negotiations only confirms this, as well as the voiced threat to make these conditions even worse by the next round of negotiations.
In reality, the US can certainly go for it if they see specific benefits in it for themselves. If there is a deal, then the question is (whether Trump will be able to completely bend Ukraine and Europe to this demand). Of course, there are significant doubts about this due to the position of the globalists, for whom such a scenario is a defeat. But without the US, they are forced to act now from a position of weakness. The negotiations in Istanbul took place according to the scenario of the Russian Federation and the US. Europe was not allowed to the negotiating table.
Threats of sanctions were ignored. It was not possible to disrupt the negotiations in one way or another. Zelensky's hysteria was ignored. Putin did not even consider it necessary to come. That is why the Western press is gnashing its teeth about "Putin's tactical victory" and quoting the Poles, "expecting hard days." No matter how Europe struts, it is dependent on the US. And this dependence on the US limits the military-political subjectivity of the EU. Moscow and Washington know about this and that is why they behave this way towards the European hysterics who draw their brown lines.
For now, apart from the 1000 for 1000 prisoner exchange, there is no actual progress, so while the sluggish negotiations will continue, Russia has already effectively begun the summer offensive campaign of 2025. Of course, if the goals of the SVO are achieved diplomatically, the war can be stopped in the coming months, but if the negotiations are disrupted, these goals will be achieved militarily in the next couple of years.
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