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#Ukraine June 18, updates from @escortert.
in two parts
-> PdS1, Dniepr-Donetsk offensive
-> PdS2, Louhansk-Siversk-Avdiivka areas & Background
Here is the PdS1 for today 👇

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#WarInUkraine D+480 (18/06) PdS1 - Dniepr-Donetsk offensive

🇺🇦 attack on the entire front line, including sectors where the offensive initiative is 🇷🇺!

Is this preparation for the long-awaited main offensive movement?

challenge

3/n

in blue, change to 🇺🇦
in red, change in favor of 🇷🇺
for details, see development by sector below

4/n

Loss👇 ratio evolves unfavorably for 🇺🇦
Offensive begins to show its human and material cost
Casualty ratio falls from 1.58 to 1.21 since the southern offensive and from 1.02 to 0.78 after recovery, 🇺🇦 loses more equipment than 🇷🇺, which is normal

5/n

These figures are similar to those for the #Kharkiv-#Kherson offensive in 2022, and show cost control by the belligerents.

The offensive👇 axes diagram now shows progress along the axes (to be completed tomorrow).

6/n

sector 1/in the #Bakhmut direction, 🇺🇦 no tactical gain👇

(i) #Bakhmut northern salient, 🇺🇦 and 🇷🇺 assault repulsed

In the #OrikhovoVasylivka axis, at the top of the northern salient, 🇷🇺 assaults repulsed

In the #Yahidne axis towards M-03, 🇺🇦 assaults repulsed

8/n

sector 2/in the #VelykaNovosilka direction, 🇺🇦 no tactical gain👇

#AFU have brought in several elite battalions and the glorious 93rd mechanized brigade to reinforce the 7 (23rd, 31st BrMe, 47th BrAr, 35th, 37th BrMa, 3rd and 4th BrB) already in place.

9/n

This attack corridor, some 20 to 25 km wide, becomes a priority 🇺🇦

(i) on the left flank in line with #Pryyutne, 🇺🇦 assaults on #Rivnopil

🇺🇦 'army advances towards #Rivnopil where 🇷🇺 , in a delicate position in a salient, flee👇

10/n

(ii) on the central axis towards #Staromlynivka, 🇺🇦 assaults on #Urozhaine so far without effect

(iii) on the right flank, in line with #Novodonetske, NTR

11/n

sector 3/ towards #Orikhiv, 🇺🇦 no tactical gains

(i) In the #Robotyne axis, NTR

NTR = no offensive, but artillery exchanges, recce, special operations (in short, a war of positions)
as here, the 🇺🇦 47th Brig Meca destroys 🇷🇺 objects👇

12/n

(ii) In the #Vassylivka axis, 🇺🇦 assaults with uncertain outcome
🇺🇦 would have entered #Pyatikhatky but without controlling the colony, which would be in the gray zone👇

13/n

What is the tactical value of #Pyatikhatky?

It commands access to the T-0812👇 which joins the M-18 north of the #Vassylivka crossroads and has the advantage (and danger) of passing between the 🇷🇺 fortifications.

It will be difficult to control as it is dominated by the high 🇷🇺

14/n

(iii) In the #Verbove axis, 🇺🇦 assaults halted

In this sector of the front, the battle is also fought trench by trench 👇

15/n

In this area, the 🇷🇺 fire supports and their counter-battery resources must be reduced.

here, 🇷🇺 ground artillery reconnaissance station SNAR-10 "Leopard" destroyed 👇

16/n

It's also very important to destroy the 🇷🇺 drones👇 units, which are much more proficient with this new weapon than they were at the start of the conflict.

17/n

There are major movements of troops and equipment from the Russian rear to the front👇

73 million seconds

@applepie110101 Major? That's two tanks on trailers and 10 + a couple of other vehicles in the other... Back at the start of the war there were these very long trains with many times that...

@73ms
Come on ! Major for this time of the war, and this is one video, an illustration, it doesn't represent all movements.