Luhansk People’s Republic. A serviceman during combat work of the crew of the Grad Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) based on the ZiL-131. Photo: Alexander Reka/TASS
Since February 24, 2022, the Russian military has been conducting a special operation in Ukraine to denazify and demilitarize the country. The KP.RU website publishes online the latest news about the Russian military special operation in Ukraine on August 19, 2023.
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced the feat of a Russian soldier. Junior sergeant Yegor Shubin, under mortar fire in the battle in the South-Donetsk direction, determined the artillery coordinates of the Ukrainian troops and transferred them to the command post.
Russian troops destroyed the radar station of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson region. Two mortars and a boat with APU militants were also destroyed.
Gagin, adviser to the head of the DPR, said that the main grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Urozhayne had been eliminated.
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 220 fighters in the Donetsk direction in one day. He also managed to destroy several units of military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (RF Armed Forces) repelled two attacks by the Ukrainian army in the direction of Zaporozhye, the enemy lost up to 195 soldiers.
The Office of the Ombudsman of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), Darya Morozova, said that at least seven civilians in the region were killed as a result of shelling by Ukrainian troops from August 11 to 17.
Russian air defense systems successfully destroyed 26 Ukrainian drones, as well as one Su-25 aircraft that was shot down over Malaya Tokmachka in the Zaporozhye region.
Kursk Region Governor Roman Starovoit said that on August 18, the Russian military neutralized a Ukrainian drone in the Rylsky district using electronic warfare (EW) equipment.
In Donetsk, due to the use of cluster bombs, three civilians were killed. The explosion occurred during the repair of the main heating pipe by public services.
The assault detachments of the Russian Armed Forces have completed the clearing of the area of the Cossack camps of the Ukrainian army, the left bank of the Dnieper River is under full control of Russian troops.
The governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said that the air defense crew of the Russian Armed Forces shot down a Ukrainian aircraft-type drone in the Belgorod region.
