⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ Frontline #Summary for the Morning of 18 May 2023; pub. 08:01⚡️

🔹 In the #Zaporozhye Direction, the RF Armed Forces struck #Kamenskoye, #Shcherbaki, #Novodanilovka, Malaya Tokmachka, #Belogorye, #Gulyaypolskoye, #Zheleznodorozhnoye, #Gulyaypole, #Malinovka, #Olgovskoye and #Stepnoye (not to be confused with the same named settlements west of #Orekhov and north of #Donetsk). (Figure 1)

🔹 On the #Donetsk Front, Russian forces, supported by artillery, tried to advance in #Maryinka. They failed.
📌 This was the only area where the RF Armed Forces were active in their offensives.
💥 Under fire, AFU positions in #Novomikhaylovka, #Paraskoviyevka, #Pobeda, #Ostrom, #Krasnogorovka, #Nevelskoye, #Pervomayskoye, #Karlovka, #Avdeyevka, #Berdychi, #Novokalinovo, #Toretsk and #Severnoye (a settlement northwest of #Gorlovka).
💥 Ukrainian forces struck #Donetsk, #Vodyanoye and #Gorlovka. (Fig. 2)

🔹 Southwest of #Bakhmut, the AFU advance on #Kleshchiyevka from #Stupochki.
➖ The RF Armed Forces attempted to counterattack in the direction of #Ivanovskoye (#Krasnoye) after artillery strikes. Without success.
➖ In #Bakhmut itself, the Wagner PMC, supported by artillery, advanced in the northwestern part. Ukrainian units hold only small areas on the way out of the city towards #Ivanovskoye (#Krasnoye) and #Khromovo.
💥 Russian forces shelled #Konstantinovka, #Stupochki, Chasov Yar, #Bogdanovka, #Grigorovka, #Spornoye, #Verkhnekamenskoyeand #Seversk.
💥 The AFU pounded on the Wagner PMC-controlled areas of #Bakhmut. (Fig. 3)

🔹 In the #Lugansk Direction, the RF Armed Forces, supported by artillery, resumed assault operations near #Belogorovka and #Stelmakhovka. They also attacked AFU positions in #Novoselovskoye. No progress was made.
➖ After shelling, they attempted to build on their earlier tactical success in the direction of #Masyutovka.
💥 Russian artillery struck at #Torskoye, #Nevskoye, #Makeyevka, #Berestovoye, #Tabayevka, #Rusanovka, #Kotlyarovka, #Kislovka, #Kupyansk, #Tishenkovka, #Kondrashovka, #Dvurechnaya, #Novomlynsk, #Figolevka, Krasnoye Pervoye, #Kamenka and #Dvurechenskoye. (Fig. 4)

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◾ A report from the frontline by a Donetsk People's Republic military about the offensive of the Ukrainian army.

- The Ukrainians tried to attack the positions of the Donetsk Peoples Republic. Well you can clearly see what happened to them.
Four more of them have burned alive inside an APC down the road. The evacuation group that was supposed to evacuate them, ditched them at the spot, turned around and fled away.

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👉Bakhmut. The ammunition is replenished and things are moving.

According to my information, the road to Khromovo and on to Chasov Yar from Bakhmut (Artemivsk) is under our control. The entire private sector of the town. "WagnerA has stormed a considerable amount of the city space in three days, the Ukrainian military has fled. It remains to take the outbuildings behind Jubilee, going in the direction of Ivanovskoye. PMC assault units stand in front of two five-storey buildings - onwards the end of Bakhmut. The last sector of the Nest.

Barely replenished and Wagner's ammunition, as its storm troopers, picked up the former high rate of advance, the assistance of the Ministry of Defense units from the flanks played a role, the freed PMC forces returned to the city and joined the assault.
The remaining AFU units in Bakhmut are in a very difficult position. Using the Smelchak (240mm) precision-guided weapon system, the Ministry of Defence's artillerymen, the Far East units attached to Wagner, have crushed all the defended Ukrainian positions, the enemy is retreating and blowing up houses behind them.

One house was not blown up in time, the PMC's bomb squad detected and defused a huge explosive charge by the AFU. It is expected that the Ukrainian military will retreat and set up their defensive positions on the eastern outskirts of Ivanovskoye, trying to hold this line, the enemy's forces there are not very large. The 200th motorized rifle brigade of the Northern Fleet is stiff there, they fight nicely, successfully. Proactive and competent management of this brigade is noted. On the defence lines of our three other formations and one other unit the flanks have sagged and the Wagner detachments returned to some areas to stabilize the situation and did the job.

The Ministry of Defence and PMC artillery is firing heavily at the enemy, shells are available. Kleshcheevka is a tense place, but Wagner firmly controls the heights, and one can confidently expect that these guys will not retreat. Otherwise the enemy will start to break through from the south to the road from Opytnoye. This will greatly complicate the situation of units of the Wagner PMC and units of the Ministry of Defense. But the Far Eastern 57th Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade stands there with dignity, standing firm, in the best traditions of the Russian infantry.

I really like the alliance of PMCs and the MoD in this brutal place. It is certainly productive.

Bakhmut is not Ukrainian, Bakhmut is ours.

👉Alexander Sladkov

🇪🇸"Músico" en las ruinas del área fortificada liberada "Nest", la parte occidental de Bakhmut.

🇬🇧"Musician" in the ruins of the liberated fortified area "Nest", the western part of Bakhmut.

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◾News from Borrell's "garden":

◾Families should go without cheese sandwiches if they cannot afford the ingredients, Ann Widdecombe has said.

◾The former Brexit party MEP said there was no “given right” for low food prices, despite being told families “cannot afford to feed their children” and were having to make huge sacrifices as the cost of living crisis deepens.

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Russia was forced to impose mirror restrictions on banking accounts of the Finnish embassy in Moscow in response to a similar blocking of the accounts of the Russian diplomatic mission in Helsinki, the Russia's Foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova explained.

“When Finland began to comment on this whole situation, they forgot about their own actions against Russian diplomatic missions. What a short memory!," she said at a briefing.

Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto told reporters Finland’s bank accounts in Russia have been frozen on April 27, prompting the embassy to make payments in cash.

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◾Ukrainians should sacrifice themselves like the Jews in the Holocaust:

◾Arestovich's best friend, blogger Mark Feygin, believes that the mass death of Ukrainians will allow "to justify the existence of a future state by these victims, and no one will be able to deny them their right.

◾I'm just going to refer you to the next picture.

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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ The Situation in the #Bakhmut (#Soledar) Direction on 18 May - RF Armed Forces lost Positions North of Sacco and Vanzetti⚡️

🔹 The RF Armed Forces units lost their positions north of the locality of Sacco and Vanzetti.

🔹 The AFU units have not yet entered the locality itself.

📜 Callsign Bruce; 18 May 2023, 12:34

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