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UPDATED: Russia-Ukraine SITREP for 18 SEP 2023 23:59* - Elite Russian Units Shredded
🕑 Added 2023-09-19 09:55:20 +0000 UTCUpdate
Delete the first SITREP for 18 SEP 2023; it did not have the summary in it and included changes to the rumor section. The draft post to Patreon was distributed in error. Thank you for your understanding.
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Full War Report Podcast Starts on September 21
If you haven't listened to Russia-Ukraine War Report Podcast co-host Marina Yevshan's debut today, you're missing out. She has a remarkable story.
This is Report 498 and is 45 pages.
What's the big story? Four of Russia's most elite brigades have fallen into a combat-ineffective or combat-destroyed state in the last week.
What's the second story? It is still too early to say "yes," but it is looking like Russia has significantly increased Shahed-136 kamikaze drone production.
Summary
- There were minor updates made to the war map
- The city of Kharkiv was hit by three S-300 antiaircraft missiles used for a ground attack
- According to Operational Command East, Russian forces are in a lull in Kharkiv and Luhansk
- The Russian 72nd, 31st, and 83rd Brigades and the Chechen Akhmat 54th Brigade are combat destroyed
- Russian forces are using civilians as human shields in Makiivka
- A rocket hit the Administration Building for the illegitimate so-called Dontesk People’s Republic
- Brutal fighting continues in the trenches of the second echelon of the Surovikin Line west of Verbove and south of Robotyne
- Russian forces are upgrading defenses around Melitopol
- A Russian drone dropped an IED on Beryslav on a group of people at the bus station and in a queue outside a store, wounding four
- A highrise building in Kryvyi Rih was hit by a Russian missile or drone
- Three Shahed-136 kamikaze drones struck warehouses in Lviv
- A Russian soldier on leave got into an argument and threw a live fragmentation grenade into a group of tourists, wounding four
- Ukraine shot down 27 out of 30 Shahed-136 kamikaze drones launched today
- All of the Deputy Ministers of Defense and the State Secretary of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine were dismissed by the Verkhovna Rada
- Germany will announce a 400 million euro military aid package but no Taurus cruise missiles
- South Korea is providing Ukraine with two K600 Rhino armored mine-clearing vehicles
- There has been a sharp decline in the number of Lancet kamikaze drones used by Russia
- Dmitry Peskov dodged questions about the health of Colonel General Ramzan Kadyrov
- The Russian Aerospace Forces have moved strategic aviation 2,450 kilometers away from Ukraine to avoid drone attacks
- The Russian RIA has issued a directive to no longer refer to Voloydmyr Zelenskyy as President of Ukraine
- Russian soldiers executed two Ukrainians in occupied Kherson for refusing to get Russian passports
- Russian forces shelled a medical facility in Kherson
- Two children were repatriated from the temporarily occupied territories
- The United Nations International Court of Justice started hearings on Ukraine’s lawsuit against the Russian Federation for acts of genocide
- President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy and First Lady Olena Zelenska arrived in New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly
- The Council of the European Union on Foreign Affairs will hold its meeting in Kyiv in October
- Russia has officially withdrawn from the Council of the Barents Euro-Arctic Council
- Chinese officials said they would block most drone shipments to Russia on September 1, and it appears they meant it
Podcast
The Malcontent News Russia Ukraine War Podcast for September 18 includes the introduction of new co-host Marina Yevshan. Zarina Zabrisky talks with the director and film editor of the award-winning documentary Under Deadly Skies: Ukraine's Eastern Front. You can listen to the podcast through the Megaphone web app and your favorite podcast provider, including,
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Comments
AnaR737
What type of tank is the one being used in that drone video near Orikhiv? It is terrifying but I could not stop watching. And the guys get out of the tank!!
I’m enjoying the new podcast. Nice listening to the Ukrainian. I’m trying very slowly to try to learn it. I at least recognized the word “ours” I hope I can keep hearing some Ukrainian!
