(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Russian stuff blowing up: House-to-house fighting reported in Vovchansk [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-06-18 The fighting in Vovchansk is described as house-to-house and even within the same building. "Warring parties are separated not even by tens of meters, but by a few meters. Positions are not just in neighboring buildings, it happens that in the same house - in adjacent rooms, on different floors. The situation in the city takes us back to Stalingrad, only on a smaller scale. Unfortunately, the losses are great," he reports. x A Russian miliblogger about the situation in Vovchansk, still partially occupied by Russian forces. "Warring parties are separated not even by tens of meters, but by a few meters. Positions are not just in neighboring buildings, it happens that in the same house - in adjacent… pic.twitter.com/tI5y4jMkdT — NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) June 18, 2024 More from Vovchansk: x Another one damaged and abandoned BMP-2. Folks from my company used 4 FPVs against it. Their choice to use infantry without armour is strange but was «predicted» by me. And because of that they have big losses in infantry. 30 mech.regiment operates here and this new regiment👇 pic.twitter.com/VAWurRfZQs — Kriegsforscher (@OSINTua) June 18, 2024 I live in the South and I’ve had pig ear sandwiches and head cheese, but you won’t catch me eating lard sandwiches. x Khorne Group operators have a snack of lard sandwiches and at the same time keep in their sights "Stugny" Russians who are sitting on the territory of the Aggregate Plant in Vovchansk. 📍 geo by EjShahid pic.twitter.com/W2HAjcJgBe — Battlefront🇺🇦 (@battlefront001) June 18, 2024 This would likely be another dumpster fire of an offensive for Russia. Borova is west of Svatove, so this would be Russia’s attempt to undo Ukrainian gains during its successful offensive in 2022. x DeepState reports that Russian forces have built up significant military strength to attack Borova. From Raihorodka to Novovodyane, approximately 10,000 personnel and 450 pieces of heavy equipment, including 200 artillery systems, have been amassed. The 3rd Brigade is currently… pic.twitter.com/7obPN89UJ6 — NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) June 18, 2024 Burn, baby, burn x Russian Telegram channels report that tanks with petroleum products are on fire after a drone attack on Azov, Rostov region of Russia. pic.twitter.com/0X0XtLPnEH — Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) June 18, 2024 x 🔥👀 Satellite images of the consequences of the attack on the oil depot in Azov tonight. ❗️As of 14:30 the oil depot was still burning. Up to 60 thousand tons of petroleum products pass through this terminal every month. pic.twitter.com/x22VyGXyUw — MAKS 24 🇺🇦👀 (@Maks_NAFO_FELLA) June 18, 2024 I wonder how many turrets he has tossed. x Oleksandr Petlinsky: "I arrived at the position from the night shift. The guys: "Are you aware that Biden quoted you?". I laughed. I thought they were joking." The most popular and influential mass media wrote about him. He was quoted by US President Joe Biden. At the beginning… pic.twitter.com/y52SWLa4ft — Kvist.P 🇩🇰🇺🇦 (@kvistp) June 18, 2024 I wonder how Ukraine found this T-80 tank? Hmmmm. Maybe they just followed the tank tracks all the way to the hideout in the woods. x If at first you don’t succeed then try again!🔥🍞 A T-80 tank gets nice and toasty thanks to the 2nd independent unit of OMEGA TSP in the Kharkov region. pic.twitter.com/eZydDgKU3Y — Challenger Tank In Ukraine🇬🇧🇺🇦 (@ChallengerInUA) June 18, 2024 Nice turret toss. WARNING: Video also shows dead Russians. x Good morning, Turret toss fans!☕️ A Russian BMP with aid from our local heroes goes for gold in the turret toss category! Perfectly executed detonation! In the direction of Kreminna. pic.twitter.com/KUirdK6Xs9 — Challenger Tank In Ukraine🇬🇧🇺🇦 (@ChallengerInUA) June 18, 2024 Ukraine continues to target Russian logistics, i.e., trucks. x Here are losses I could identify for yesterday. https://t.co/6rYrkketbL When I woke up this morning there were an extra 52 vehicles to add to the list. pic.twitter.com/L5ga3PRZJr — Andrew Perpetua (@AndrewPerpetua) June 18, 2024 The Russian filming this says that three officers died in this Chinese golf cart and that the Russians have to use them because if they use trucks they are instantly attacked by drones. x Video by a Russian soldier showing a Chinese "Golf Cart" in which three senior officers were killed in a drone strike.He is saying, in the first day of the offensive, they lost 6 BMP-2s, & UAZs and in this vehicle 3 officers were killed. pic.twitter.com/TjqQJh6lU7 — raging545 (@raging545) June 18, 2024 This is pretty funny actually. A lost Russian tank driver stops to ask Ukrainians for directions. OTOH — you could say that he made the correct turn. Now they can chill in a POW camp instead of being blown up in their tank. The driver of the tank was captured by the medics of the 244 TDF battalion. Because he came out to look for the directions as they were passing on M113. x this is captured barn tank from yesterday moving south of Klishivka. Another detail, is that two soldiers that were captured on top of the tank were actually refusniks who didn't dismount on time. The driver of the tank was captured by the medics of the 244 TDF battalion.… pic.twitter.com/zOdLeAGQ7d — ✙ Constantine ✙ (@Teoyaomiquu) June 18, 2024 There are posts on twitter about finding a Russian vehicle with a severed Ukrainian head on top of the hood. The post says Russians have been ordering not to take any prisoners. The photo of the vehicle shows the (blurred) head on the hood of the vehicle, so I’m not embedding it. It is at this link if you wish to see it. I’d say I was surprised by this, but war criming is what Russia does best. An assassination attempt in Kyiv. x Shooting in #Kyiv: the killer tried to kill the #Kazakh oppositionist Aidos Sadikov, the media also write that he is in a serious condition He is known for his criticism of the Kazakh authorities on his YouTube channel, as well as his support for protests in #Kazakhstan in 2022, pic.twitter.com/ROMbObt6Bm — Aurora Borealis 🤫 (@aborealis940) June 18, 2024 A possible assassination attempt foiled. x BREAKING🚨 Un russian "diplomat" who was accredited in Switzerland tried to procure weapons shortly before the peace summit The Swiss authorities suspect that the weapons may have been intended for an assassination This russian citizen is protected by his diplomatic immunity,… pic.twitter.com/sRvbt2GYic — PS01 (@PStyle0ne1) June 18, 2024 RCH stands for Remote Controlled Howitzer. This was announced back in the fall but it was only supposed to be 36. Now it’s 54. But the whole package is not supposed to be delivered until 2027. x ⚡️The Armed Forces of 🇺🇦Ukraine will receive 54 units of the latest RCH 155 wheeled self-propelled artillery systems. This was reported on June 18 by the press service of the Franco-German defense giant KNDS. pic.twitter.com/gTaCf0lkVv — 🇺🇦Ukrainian Front (@front_ukrainian) June 18, 2024 This kind of shit needs to stop. If the U.S. is dragging its feet on F-16 training, then some priorities need to be rearranged. Oleksandra Ustinova, head of Ukraine’s special parliamentary commission on arms and munitions, has accused the United States of making “excuses” for failing to train sufficient numbers of Ukrainian F-16 fighter jet pilots. Ustinova claims this delay means Ukraine will likely have only 20 fully trained F-16 pilots by the end of the year despite the expected arrival of the first jets later this year. ….. Washington told Kyiv that other countries were ahead of Ukrainian pilots in the queue for training places and that it could not violate its obligations to them. A US Defense Department spokesman also claimed that Ukrainian pilots are having difficulty with their English language skills and the flight program, saying that “the progress of training on F-16s is quite meager.” This is good news, even though it should have happened two years ago. x 🇨🇭Switzerland has broken free from the deadlock: The Security Policy Commission of the Swiss National Council has approved a proposal to allow the re-export of weapons to Ukraine - Blick ❗️❗️If this is adopted, countries such as Germany, Denmark and Spain will be allowed to… — Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 (@jurgen_nauditt) June 18, 2024 Italy steps up. x BREAKING 🚨‼️ 🇮🇹 Italy will send Storm Shadows missiles that can be used in Russia -IL Fatto Quotidiano Grazie mille 🇺🇦🇮🇹 pic.twitter.com/bfzgV2qTkq — PS01 (@PStyle0ne1) June 18, 2024 I wish this was a joke, but apparently it isn’t. 😡 x As its slogan during the presidency of the EU Council in the second half of 2024, Hungary chose the phrase "Make Europe Great Again" by analogy with Trump's slogan. United24 Hungary takes over the presidency of the EU Council 🫣 pic.twitter.com/8VkdZBQU7t — Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 (@jurgen_nauditt) June 18, 2024 The translation didn’t help much for me. It’s so technical it makes my head hurt. But am I surprised that Russia made a piece of shit equipment that cost them 20 soldiers? Nope. I just hope they keep fucking up. Do you think Putin and Kim Jong Un exchange love letters? x The Kremlin butcher arrives in Pyongyang to bow to his North Korean handlers, who provide him with weapons. It is widely known that if DPRK stops supplying weapons to Russia, the war will end in 2-3 months. The economic forums are all good but the debt must be repaid. pic.twitter.com/G79IGduE45 — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated) June 18, 2024 Check out how enthusiastic the North Koreans in the audience seem to be. This is a rather cryptic post from a Russian blogger writing about a commander who was killed in his own yard and hints that the ratio of commanders killed at the front compared to the rear would be shocking. x Russian military blogger Severny Veter hints at the recent murder of a Russian brigade commander in his own house. He states that the officer belonged to the 11th Brigade but there's an asterisk so unclear if he means this exact brigade. "The enemy is already inside you", says… pic.twitter.com/pLfhW1kuTf — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated) June 18, 2024 The other day one of the commanders of the 11th* brigade was killed. Shot dead in the yard of his own house. War? No. Saboteurs? Don't know. Killed by own people? It's also possible. There were political deaths. Some people were not allowed to steal. Some couldn't stop because they thought they were holding God by the beard. All the leaders of the republics have been liquidated - although Igor Plotnitsky seems to be still alive... Mozgovoy, Zakharchenko, Kostin, Murz... And not a single one was killed at the frontline. (In general, it is interesting to calculate the ratio of deaths of commanders at the front and in the rear. Can someone do it? If the enemy does this first, it will be impossible to find more demotivating information. This is a media bomb.) The reasons for this murder will still be clarified by the investigation. Hopefully. This is what modern warfare is like. The enemy is already inside you. Have the courage to admit it, because without it there will be no victory. And have the courage to fight, because otherwise the enemy is yourself. Polish farmers need to stay home and tend to their farms. They aren’t spreading pig manure to fertilize the fields — although that’s a bizarre side outcome of this stunt — they are doing it because many of the migrants are Muslim. x 😂Poles are dumping pig manure along the border with Belarus to deter illegal immigrants from Muslim countries. Now we need to find something to deter the russian orcs in Ukraine - does anyone have any ideas? pic.twitter.com/TQovWQAogK — Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 (@jurgen_nauditt) June 18, 2024 He reminds me of the swordsman in Raiders of the Lost Ark. x Between this Russian and the Belarus special forces, I am not sure who is the most fearsome 🥱😁 pic.twitter.com/YfVOOp1Lzc — PS01 (@PStyle0ne1) June 18, 2024 Rest in peace. x Today, June 18, the Kremenchuk City Palace of Culture said goodbye to the fallen intelligence officer, soldier Dmytro Avramenko. A lot of people - family, and former classmates, teachers from school and college, friends and acquaintances gathered to see the fallen soldier on his… pic.twitter.com/dT6WxluFm7 — Oriannalyla 🇺🇦 (@Lyla_lilas) June 18, 2024 Maybe one day there can be a parade like this in Moscow without the police arresting everyone. x #KyivPride March early Sunday morning: small steps for participants, big step for the city. Next steps for the country adoption of laws on civil partnership(5488) and hate crime (91303). Together for an inclusive victory. #StandWithUkraine pic.twitter.com/fCVY0QS0CB — Esselien van Eerten (@EertenEsselien) June 16, 2024 The scars left on children will take a very long time to heal, if ever. x A girl from Mariupol tells a famous Ukrainian singer Artem Pyvovarov how her friend died: a Russian bomb fell on her… 😢 The singer cannot hold back his tears. #PrayForUkraine pic.twitter.com/gkwH6oVa2V — Iuliia Mendel (@IuliiaMendel) June 18, 2024 A break from the war. Yes, more dancing please! x Olga is right! We need more Ukrainian dances🥰 This performance is from last month by the Palace of creativity of children and youth❤️https://t.co/Ydb6ufbKDR pic.twitter.com/beES0SbYrb — Sofia (@SlavaUk30722777) June 18, 2024 Lexie and the Ducks might make a good band name. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/6/18/2247276/-Russian-stuff-blowing-up-House-to-house-fighting-reported-in-Vovchansk?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/