Thread by @DrazaM33

❗Donbass: situation by the end of June 18, 2022

▪️In the Kharkov region, clashes continue in the north of the region and in the Izyum district.

➖On the territories bordering with Russia, fighting is going on in the vicinity of Dementievka and Pitomnik.

➖With the onset of night, the Iskanders worked on the objects of the UA Army in the city of Kharkov.
➖In the Izyum direction, the UA Army continue to strengthen their positions on the Chepel-Protopopovka-Petrovskoye line, probing the defenses of the RU Forces near Izyum.

Artillery of the RU Forces, in turn, delivered massive strikes against the enemy fortified areas in Chepel.
➖The UA Army attacked the former command post of the 20th Army of the RU Forces: at the time of the strike, the facility was empty, no dead or wounded, despite the...

victorious reports of the UA side.

➖Rocket strikes were carried out on the Shebelinsky gas processing plant near Andreevka, Balakleysky district. Shebelinsky GPP is one of the few UA oil refineries that have survived to this day.

▪️ Positional battles continue in Donbass, there are no significant advances on the part of the parties.

➖In Severodonetsk, the cleaning of summer cottages between Sirotino and Metelkino has been completed. The UA Army do not allow the RU Forces to cross the Seversky Donets ...

near Belogorovka: UA Su-25s and army aviation are working on the forward positions.

➖A blow was struck at the Lisichansk Oil Refinery.
➖A company stronghold was taken on the outskirts of the settlement. Toshkovka: the last position of the UA Army in the village was occupied.

➖The UA Army continue to increase the grouping of troops near Avdeevka: weapons and ammunition were brought to Kurakhovo. Fresh AN / TPQ-37 counter-battery radars have been deployed to the area.

➖UA Armu shelled Donetsk with heavy weapons, retaliatory strikes destroyed four platoons of Grad multiple launch rocket systems and four platoons of 155-mm M777 howitzers. According to Patrick Lancaster, over 400 shells were fired at Donetsk in a day.

▪️In the Zaporozhye direction, artillery duels continue in the area of ​​Orekhov and Gulyaipol. As a result of the shelling of the UA Army, the gas pipeline in Vasilyevka was damaged. Arrived units of the 44th ABR of the UA Army are conducting reconnaissance of the positions...

of the RU Forces in Novoselidovka, Pavlovka, Vladimirovka, Nikolsky, Yegorovka, Prechistovka and Evgenovka.

▪️Several strikes were made on objects in the Dnipropetrovsk region.

➖The ammunition depot in Sinelnikovo, which belonged to the 44th brigade of the UA Army, was destroyed. The arsenal was formed in the interests of a brigade transferred from the Zhytomyr region, which reinforced the grouping of troops in the Zaporozhye direction.

➖The oil depot in Novomoskovsk was put out of action.

▪️In the Poltava region during the daytime, at least five missile strikes were carried out on the territory of the Kremenchug Oil Refinery and other key objects of the city.

The simultaneous decommissioning of four oil facilities (the final destruction of the Kremenchug Oil Refinery, attacks on the Shebelinsky Gas Processing Plant, the Lisichansky Oil Refinery and the oil depot in Novomoskovsk) testify to the desire to reduce the logistical ...

logistical capabilities of the UA Army in the Donbass.

▪️In the Krivoy Rog direction, the Russian Armed Forces launched strikes against the facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zelenodolsk and Apostolovsky districts.