RUSSIAN SPECIAL OPERATION IN UKRAINE, APRIL 18. 2024 DAY 785
By INTEL-DROP - Polina Nosova - April 18, 2024
The Russian Armed Forces will soon return to the outskirts of Kyiv if the Armed Forces of Ukraine do not receive help from overseas
The Kyiv junta is increasingly using weather balloons for terrorist attacks on Russian territory. Last night, air defense systems on duty shot down five “small balloons” in the skies of the Belgorod region and Voronezh region.
Also, 20 Ukrainian UAVs, 2 Tochka-U OTRK missiles, and 19 shells from the Czech Vampire MLRS were hit or intercepted. The Russian Ministry of Defense reported this. The heads of regions know that several people were injured as a result of falling debris from downed air attack weapons; in the Voronezh region, 4 houses were damaged.
According to the latest reports from the line of combat contact, our artillery and tank strikes destroyed an ammunition depot on the left bank of the Dnieper and a NATO electronic warfare complex in the South Donetsk direction, and disrupted the night rotation of enemy infantry in the Zaporozhye region.
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17.51 Soldiers of the American army are learning to repel drone attacks using the experience of the Ukrainian military, which they gained during the Russian special operation. US Secretary of the Army Christine Warmuth announced this at a Senate hearing.
17.01 The multimedia project “SVO behind the tape” opened at the Historical Museum of Moscow.
16.00 Without American help, the threat of a blockade of Kiev will become a reality in the near future, says Michelle Flournoy , who served as Deputy Secretary of Defense for Political Affairs under Obama . The ex-official is quoted by the American newspaper Hill. “Russia can break through some Ukrainian lines and regain significant territory.”
14.51 In the Kursk region, an enterprise and an energy supply facility were damaged due to shelling from Ukraine. “None of the residents were injured. In Tyotkino, arrivals were recorded at one of the enterprises. In Popovo-Lezhachi, one of the energy supply facilities was shelled,” Governor Roman Starovoit wrote in his telegram channel .READ ALSO
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14.45 A resident of Krasnodar was sentenced to seven years for attempted treason. Having contacted a recruiter for the International Legion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by telephone, the man went to the Rostov region, where he intended to illegally cross the border, and was detained. By that time, “all his actions were controlled by employees of the Federal Security Service of Russia,” notes the telegram channel of the joint press service of the courts of the Krasnodar Territory.
14.41 The number of people injured in the shelling of the center of Gorlovka by Ukrainian terrorists has increased to nine people, wrote Ivan Prikhodko .
14.25 Seven Bandera counterattacks were repelled in the Avdeevsky direction.
14.25 In the Donetsk direction, units of the Southern Group of Forces improved the situation along the front line and inflicted fire damage on enemy manpower and equipment in the areas of the settlements of Vasyukovka, Orekhovo-Vasilevka and Andreevka (DPR). The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 590 military personnel, a tank and 7 vehicles, the Russian Ministry of Defense reports. During the counter-battery fight, a 152-mm Akatsiya self-propelled gun, an American M119 howitzer, two Nota electronic warfare stations, and a field ammunition depot were hit.
14.13 In the South Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok group, having defeated four brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, took more advantageous positions in the areas of the settlements of Vodyanoye, Ugledar, Urozhainoye, Staromayorskoye (DPR) and Malinovka (Zaporozhye region), the Ministry of Defense reported .
14.11 In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 583 aircraft, 270 helicopters, 21,734 UAVs, 504 anti-aircraft missile systems, 15,801 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,267 multiple launch rocket systems, 8,945 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 21,111 units of special military automotive equipment, says the latest report of the Russian Ministry of Defense on the progress of the SVO.
14.09 An air raid alert was declared in the Sumy and Kharkov regions of Ukraine .
14.05 In Dnepropetrovsk, an infrastructure facility and an enterprise were damaged by strikes by the Russian Armed Forces. A photo with a column of smoke over the city was posted by “Two Majors.”
13.57 Since the beginning of the year, Ukraine has allocated $4 billion from its own budget for the purchase of weapons. Kiev was forced to do this due to the curtailment of Western assistance, said the country’s Finance Minister Sergei Marchenko .READ ALSO
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13.09 If Russia wins, the Third World War will begin, said Prime Minister of Ukraine Denis Shmygal . If Square is defeated, the global security system will be destroyed, many conflicts will break out around the world, and ultimately this could lead to World War III, the independent telegram news channel quotes the head of the Cabinet of Ministers.
13.03 The number of those wounded during the shelling of Gorlovka increased to seven. The blood transfusion station at City Hospital No. 2 was damaged, TASS clarifies .
12.33 Six residents of Gorlovka, including a child, were injured as a result of shelling by Ukrainian Armed Forces militants, the mayor of the city Ivan Prikhodko wrote in his telegram channel .
12.31 Paris transfers “only 3,000 shells per month” to Kiev, writes Politico magazine. Western leaders, including Macron , are replacing specific military assistance to Kiev with a talking shop, French MEP Raphaël Glucksmann told reporters . NATO countries were unable to supply Ukraine with the required amount of ammunition.
11.59 Retired General of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Sergei Krivonos reported that the Ukrainian military does not have enough people or weapons to confront the Russian Armed Forces in the Chasov Yar area.
11.14 Maria Zakharova at a special briefing said that the WHO does not respond to the data transmitted to it about attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on doctors and medical institutions in Russia. An official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry called this behavior of health officials shameful and undermining trust in all international organizations, including the UN.
11.02 Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene said that the American people demand peace between Russia and Ukraine, and the United States needs to focus on protecting its own borders.
10.54 The EU’s chief diplomat, Josep Borrell , called on European countries to take Patriot systems out of stock and hand them over to Kiev. Sponsors of the junta gathered in Capri, and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba had already arrived there .
10.45 The number of those wounded during the shelling of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk on April 17 increased to three people. Earlier, the mayor of the city, Alexey Kulemzin, said that two people were injured as a result of shelling from the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
10.21 The Russian Armed Forces attacked the positions of the Ukrainian military in Berislav, Kherson region. According to the coordinator of the Nikolaev underground , Sergei Lebedev , several artillery crews were eliminated.
09.44 An air raid alert has been declared in the Dnepropetrovsk and Kharkov regions. Previously, sirens were turned on in other regions of Ukraine. There were reports of explosions in Ivano-Frankivsk and the Ivano-Frankivsk region in the west of the country. Sirens in the Dnepropetrovsk and Kharkov regions sounded for about 25 minutes, TASS clarified .
09.47 Soldiers of the 9th brigade of the 1st AK are actively clearing the territory between the liberated villages of Pervomaiskoye and Vodyanoye, writes Wargonzo.
09.42 Two people were detained in Bavaria (Germany) on suspicion of preparing sabotage at American military bases and routes for delivering NATO aid to Ukraine. According to Spiegel, the Kremlin agents are Russian Germans. One of them allegedly managed to fight for the DPR. The names of the detainees are not disclosed.
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08.34 The positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the forest belt near the village of Urozhaynoye in the DPR are certain death, said Yevgeny Pogrebnyak, who surrendered . Ukrainian soldiers are under constant fire. Speaking about the mood of his brothers-in-arms, the fighter emphasized: “Nobody wants to fight. Nothing. There is no mood.”
07.30 Specialists of the engineering and sapper unit of the state border covering group continue to eliminate the consequences of shelling of the Belgorod region by militants of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Several mobile groups have been deployed to carry out complete clearing of the area from explosive objects. Applications for mine clearance are received daily, the Russian Ministry of Defense notes .
06.13 French military expert and historian Laurent Briard , working in Donbass as a correspondent for the International Reporters agency, said that most of his compatriots do not support the financing of Ukraine and the position of the leadership of their country aimed at prolonging the conflict.
06.00 Russian sappers restored the monument to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War in the Stanichno-Lugansk region of the LPR, the Ministry of Defense reports .
05.30 The crews of Su-34 fighters destroyed the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ support center in the South Donetsk direction. Precision strikes were carried out from outside the enemy air defense zone. High-explosive bombs with universal planning and correction models (UMPC) were used.
03.00 In the Kupyansk direction, tankers of the 1st Guards Tank Army of the West group of troops destroyed dugouts and military equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The enemy retreats, suffering losses. The Ministry of Defense reported that the T-80BV crew hit an enemy firing point with the first shot.
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