Ispan wrote:Today's war report. Perhaps the beginning of the offensive.
https://guerraenucrania.wordpress.com/2022/04/18/parte-de-guerra-18-04-2022/
After a long struggle I was able to add an archive menu so you can read older entries, those of previous years have only historical interest but it might come handy now to check last month entries.
Some good maps in the original
General situation: After heavy shelling with missiles, aviation and artillery at night, Russian attacks on the north and south of the Donbass salient begin. The advances are small and step by step but the army has already set in motion.
General map: pro-Ukraine source, for guidance purposes only
Izyum Front
the Russians continued to advance south, on the eastern bank of the Oskol River after capturing Borova, and fighting took place north of the settlement of Lozove.
They have also taken Balakleya which cuts off one of Kharkov's communication routes which is in a semi-encirclement.
Kremenanya (Kreminna) today is already fighting in the streets
The city of Kremennaya has been taken over by the Russians.
In mid-March, the capture of Kremennaya was announced, but mistakenly. Now the information is confirmed by Ukrainian sources.
Also two days ago it is confirmed that the Russians have taken a village Peski Radykovskie to the east of the Oskol River reservoir, which confirms that they have widened the Izyum bridgehead and have now joined those of the Luhansk militia forming a continuous front for the advance against the agglomeration of Slavyansk
https://topwar.ru/195052-soobschaetsja-o-perehode-pod-kontrol-vs-rf-territorij-harkovskoj-oblasti-k-vostoku-ot-oskolskogo-vodohranilischa.html
It is reported that Russian troops have taken control of the geographically important village of Peski Radykovskie in the Borovskiy district. It is a populated locality with about 2.5 thousand inhabitants in January 2022. Territorially it is located on the left bank of the Oskol reservoir, east of Izyum. The control of these territories makes it possible to move in two directions: towards Lisichansk and Severodonetsk in the LPR and towards Slavyansk and Kramatorsk in the DPR.
The aforementioned Borovsk district of the Kharkiv region borders on both People's Republics at the same time. In a straight line from Peski Radykovskie to Sloviansk there are less than 50 km. Accordingly, additional opportunities open up for an offensive against the positions of the Ukrainian groups entrenched in the mentioned agglomerations.
Recall that earlier, in an attempt to disrupt the offensive of the Russian army, Ukrainian troops blew up one of the dams of the Oskol reservoir. However, this did not help the Ukrainian armed formations in the end.
Today 18 April the advance of the Allied forces to the northwest of Izyum is reported. The following villages were liberated:. Borovaya, Podliman, Nizhnyaya Zhuravka, Nizhnyaya Saline. There is fighting in the area of the village of Peski-Radkovskie
It is noted that in the battles the Ural Strike Brigade was particularly distinguished, which defeated the elite Ukrainian special forces and the forces of the 79 Brigade in the battle of Borovaya.
In Izyum, from night to noon, a rain of rockets was falling on the city of Izyum. This is not an attempt to attack the transit of Russian troops through the city if not indiscriminate shelling of the civilian population to avenge the failures of the previous days, when they suffered heavy losses in the 93rd, 95th and 25th Brigades.
That is, as the bridgehead expands, the Ukrainians are using more and more troops to plug the gap, from one brigade to three, tanks, artillery, rocket launchers and the few planes and helicopters they have left.
Report from the front of the war correspondent Старше Адды
https://t.me/s/vysokygovorit
It's interesting to be in the thick of things that haven't happened in 75 years. The offensive in the Slavyansk direction is increasing, the roar of cannon and rocket artillery, the work of tanks, rifle gunfights, the roar of aviation.
A hoarse voice broadcasts on the radio about what is happening in the next village: up to two enemy infantry companies are trying to counterattack, I see tanks, etc.
As usual at night, another batch of captured Ukrainian soldiers is brought from the front line (today the delivery service has already worked 2 times). Interestingly, each time they bring soldiers from different units. To the prisoners of the 95th, 93rd, 25th Brigades, were added from the 71st from Kremenchug.
The Ukrainian army has huge losses. I think that if the prisoners are shown the speeches of Arestovich and the representative of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, where they talk about the encircled Russian army in Izyum or about the settlements "liberated" by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, they will be very surprised.
Everyone who was captured, after recovering a little, says that the command abandoned them. He uses it as cannon fodder, they are thrown into battle immediately after reaching the front. It is obvious that the Ukrainian army should compensate for at least some of the losses as soon as possible and, if possible, gain time to prepare the next line of defense.
The cement of this milestone is the blood and flesh of the soldiers of Ukraine, who are destroyed every hour by all available means of destruction
Zaporozhe-Donetsk Front
See the official statement below. The Russians, instead of continuing north and trying to take the Ugledar positions and then having to storm the fortified position of Kurakhovo by the lake, west of Donetsk, have shelled several localities and are now advancing northwest, towards Pokrovske on the N15 highway (not to be confused with Pokrovsk, the junction of roads to the North, on the E40 highway). It is not known whether this is the beginning of a encirclement maneuver further west of Donetsk, or whether they will then head to Zaporozhe.
The village of Malinovka, to the west on the map has been taken.
Ukrainian militants of the 110th Territorial Defense Brigade announced the beginning of the advance of Russian troops along the Gulai – Pole-Velikaya Novoselka border in the direction of the village of Pokrovskoye.
The rocket troops and artillery of the Russian army attacked the positions of the Ukrainian fighters.in the areas of the settlements of Staromayorskoye, Makarovka, Storozhevo, Neskuchnoye, Vremovka, Priyutnoye, Vishnevoye, Malinovka, Poltavka, Novodarovka, Novoukrainskoye and Stepnoye.
Donetsk Sector
After air strikes and artillery preparation, it seems that the Novorussians have conquered the positions still held by the Ukrainians in Marinka
https://topwar.ru/195126-bojcy-nm-dnr-voshli-v-okopy-i-blindazhi-vsu-i-nacbatov-v-rajone-marinki.html
Southwest front Kherson
It is confirmed that the Russians have taken Snegurovka and Novopetrivka.
At 17:00 it is reported by Ukrainian sources from Nikolayev that the 28th Brigade has suffered heavy losses and calls are being made for blood donation.
Statement Russian army morning of 18.04.2022
High-precision air-launched missiles destroyed 16 Ukrainian military installations overnight.
Among them: five enemy command posts, fuel storage, three ammunition depots, as well as military personnel and equipment concentrated in the areas of the settlements of BARVENKOVO, GULAI POLE, KAMYSHEVAKHA, ZELENOE POLE, VELIKOMIKHAILOVKA and NIKOLAEV.
The tactical-operational aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces attacked 108 areas of troop and material concentration.
In addition, a Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle was shot down by an air-to-air missile near Buda.
Army aviation destroyed 8 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, as well as up to one company of enemy personnel in the PASHKOVO, VESELOE and Ilichevka areas.
The missile forces launched attacks with high-precision ground-launched Iskander missiles. Four depots of Ukrainian weapons and materiel were destroyed, as well as three areas of troop concentration near the settlements of Popasnaya, Yampol and Kramatorsk.
Russian artillery units attacked 315 targets of Ukrainian troops overnight.
18 command posts, 22 artillery batteries, the OSA-AKM anti-aircraft missile system, as well as 275 bastions and concentration zones of enemy manpower were attacked.
The Russian air defense forces shot down three Ukrainian warplanes in the air: two MiG-29 fighters near the village of Izyum and one Su-25 near Avdiivka.
In addition, 11 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down in the air near the settlements of Klimovo, Nevelskoye, Novotroitskoye, Izyum, Panteleimonovka, Sladvodnoye and YASNOYE. 10 large-caliber rocket shells fired by Ukrainian multiple launch rocket systems at the village of Chernobayevka were intercepted.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 139 aircraft and 483 unmanned aerial vehicles have been destroyed.,
250 anti-aircraft missile systems, 2,326 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 254 multiple rocket launchers, 1,004 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 2,184 units of special military vehicles.
OTHER REPORTS OF INTEREST
Ukrainian drugged zombies
As in 2014, the mass use of amphetamine derivatives as comabte drugs is confirmed.
"Ukrainian prisoners of war confirm that they took up to three tablets of "military chemicals" a day. This made them cheerful and insensitive to pain. The United States supplies it in wild quantities and watches how it affects military personnel in the long term, because they don't care what happens to these people later," said Alexander Borodai, former head of the DPR and a member of the Russian State Duma.
Captagon (amphetamine + theophylline) was previously seen by journalists in Syria. It is claimed that this substance is highly addictive, it turns off the feeling of physical pain. Seriously wounded rebels have shown an unusual ability to continue fighting by being high on this chemical.
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