⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Morning Briefing of The Ministry of Defense of Russia (June 18, 2023)

⚡️English Translation⚡️

⚡️ Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation

(18 June 2023)

◽️Over the past 24 hours, the AFU continued to attempt offensive actions in Zaporozhye, South Donetsk and Donetsk directions.

◽️The most active actions took place in Zaporozhye direction.

◽️The enemy with up to 3 battalion tactical groups, reinforced with tanks and armoured fighting vehicles, under a smoke cover made unsuccessful offensive attempts in several waves close to Novopokrovka, Novodanilovka and Malaya Tokmachka (Zaporozhye region).

💥The competent and decisive actions of the Vostok Group of Forces, aviation and artillery have repelled all the enemy attacks.

💥In addition, as a result of a complex shelling of four AFU reserves' convoys near Malaya Tokmachka (Zaporozhye region), 9 tanks, 10 infantry fighting vehicles and up to 10 other armoured fighting vehicles have been destroyed.

◽️In Zaporozhye direction, the enemy losses were over 200 Ukrainian servicemen, 33 tanks, 30 infantry fighting vehicles and 35 armoured fighting vehicles.

◽️In South Donetsk direction, close to Vremevka salient, as a result of decisive actions by Russian troops, aviation and artillery, 4 enemy attacks with a battalion tactical group have been repelled by Russian forces close to Novodonetskoye, Rovnopol (Donetsk People's Republic) and Novodovarovka (Zaporozhye region).

💥The enemy losses were up to 380 Ukrainian servicemen, 35 tanks, 33 infantry fighting vehicles, including 2 Bradley vehicles, as well as 38 armoured fighting vehicles, including Striker armoured personnel carrier, as well as 1 D-20 howitzer.

◽️In Donetsk direction, as a result of the active actions of the units of the Yug Group of Forces, 8 enemy attacks have been repelled close to Kirovo, Pervomayskoye, Krasnogorovka, Nevelskoye and Maryinka (Donetsk People's Republic).

💥The aircraft have hit the units of the 79th Airborne Assault Brigade, the 110th Mechanised Brigade and the 129th Territorial Defence Brigade near Novgorodskoye, Avdeevka and Pobeda (Donetsk People's Republic).

💥The enemy losses were up to 210 Ukrainian servicemen, 1 infantry fighting vehicle, 1 armoured personnel carrier, 3 motor vehicles, 2 pickup trucks and 1 Grad multiple-launch rocket system.

💥1 ammunition depot of the AFU 109th Territorial Defence Brigade has been
destroyed near Sukhaya Balka (Kherson region).

◽️In Kupyansk direction, the attacks, launched by Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, as well as artillery of the Zapad Group of Forces, have resulted in the neutralisation of the enemy manpower and hardware close to Figalyovka, Masyutovka, Kislovka, Timkovka (Kharkov region), and Stelmakhovka (Lugansk People's Republic).

💥The actions of 2 Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups have been suppressed close to Berestovoye (Kharkov region), and Novosyolovka (Lugansk People's Republic).

💥The enemy losses were up to 60 Ukrainian servicemen, 3 pickup trucks, 1 Msta-B howitzer and 1 Polish-manufactuted Krab self-propelled artillery system.

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